It was a "cheap wum" but I think it did also imply City have previously handed Arsenal a title. Can't see how anyone can suggest otherwise when that's exactly how I read it As I've said, I knew what he meant but, as it's Diego, I decided to pull him up on it. Much like he quickly pulls any of us up and twist our words at every opportunity. It was in good spirits and I'm sure @Diego would have taken it as such. How we've ended up with several pages from it just goes to show it really is #allaboutzanjinho Edit; oh, and Diego will be loving the attention it's since gotten too
Shock horror a raft of players pulled out of England squad. 8 in total. Not sure when foden palmer and Colwill got injured given they played fine at weekend. Does just make a mockery of these breaks for nations leagues that no one cares about, especially as England are in **** group now.
Whoever replaces Lineker as host of motd at the end of the season, I really hope it's not Alex Scott or Jason Mohamed. He's smug and she can't present.
Mark Chapman is apparently the favourite. I can't stand him. He comes across as a complete dick, asking stupid questions.
I see the Opta "supercomputer" now has us favourites for the title, at 60.3%. Funny how it didn't say that earlier in the season. Us first, City second favourite, then Arsenal and Chelsea. Must have used a lot of juice cranking that one out.
I tend to zone out of the punditry on MOTD these days anyway. Think the only one recently where I paid attention was when Rafa was on.
There's very little value add done by BBC They literally have hours to put something together for their one or two matches they actually bother to give 10mins to. It's just rubbish that they come out with and really tired hackery
Easy cost saving. He’s their biggest earner and let’s be real, no one tunes into motd because of the host. If you’re watching motd it’s because you want to watch highlights. Get someone in for 1/4 the cost and you’ve saved yourself a million quid
I'd be happy if they just had a host to introduce each game, and do away with all of the pundits as I almost never listen to them.
I think at this point people would prefer the BBC move with thr times and use thr hour to show longer highlights of each game But for the few tournaments/cups they do get they want to retain the pundits. We all consume content differently now. At 6 or 7pm you can see 3min highlights of every game on sky app. They are not as good as a 10minute highlight show but they are every bit as good as the last few games bbc barely bother to show at all. Nobody wants a tired hack regurgitating the same old lines again and again week in and week out. Unless there's something new to say then don't say anything. Oh and the var constant moaning has accelerated the switch off of these people. Var is there. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't help and most of the time it slows down tight decisions. We have known this for a LONG time. Stop repeating yourselves.
I gave up on the BBC as a news outlet, including the sports section, a long time ago. I only watch our games now and have little interest in other games unless something controversial, or whatever, happens and I can find what I need on YouTube.
I will generally watch the highlights on sky app to just see the goals and rarely watch motd. Will only really do that if there was a great game or an lfc game that didn’t see live and want to watch extended highlights. As you say, most 16-30 year olds will either be out on a Saturday night so won’t see it anyway or will spend 3 mins on their phone to watch 5 hours before motd comes on anyway. I imagine most people that watch motd are those 40+ who grew up with motd as only way to see the football
