Not a happy 'Bollock' - please log in to view this image Ian Wright is apparently taking over the 606 phone-in slot. I wonder if he will be doing the "predictions"?
I may be alone here, but I actually quite like Lawro, sure his predictions are nonsense but he has more intelligence and charisma than a lot of others on MoTD such as Shearer, Owen and Keown. Plus, watching him and Hansen squirm when having to analyse Liverpool's defeats was just hilarious. Why did the BBC have to let Dixon go?
I don't mind lawro as a co-comentator. He's okay on radio I just don't like having to look at him with his too tight stripy shirts and his cottage loaf hairstyle. They let Dixon go because he fell out with Shearer, I believe.
Agreed. I quite like the bollock...a bit like your ditzy Aunt Ethel, you'll miss him when he's gone. I think Hansen is getting the boot / not having his contract extended. It could be a very different MOTD next season.
The article says Hanson had already told them that he wanted to step down after the coming World Cup. I always rated Dixon, but I suspect that ITV pay him considerably more than the BBC did. I think part of the appeal for ITV was reuniting Dixon and Adrian Chiles from the original MOTD2 line up. As for pundits to take the place of the old, dull brigade, I've said it before and I'll go on saying it: Pat Nevin.
I'd take everyone (with the exception of Owen and Savage) in this thread over Shearer. I know I've said it before but how the man is on television escapes me. He offers no insight and isn't even remotely entertaining. Ian Wright, however, should be a winner on 606!
Agreed. I remeber him doing a show on 5Live with Mark Bright on Saturday mornings which was fantastic. There was one time a reporter outside a ground who had a few free tickets to give away if people just came up and asked for them. He did his piece on the Wright & Bright show and then it cut back to Wrighty who recapped that all people had to do was ask the reporter and be given free tickets, but then he added "and if you speak to Jeff and he has run out of tickets then..." slight pause while he considered what to say, "then give him a good hiding." which probably wasn't what the reporter wanted to hear but was very funny.
I can't find anything online but I distinctly remember Ian Wright being cut off when he was on Talksport after making a comment on Italians and stabbings around the time of a European match in Rome- I think it was United, possibly the game Carrick scored a beauty. Maybe enough time has passed now for him to come back on-air.
