Snapchat without the app5/15/2023 “Sheep… horse… cows… more cows…”Ĭompared with the perpetually rucking pundits on Sky, meanwhile, their opinions on players and managers are pitifully insipid. It’s no more insightful than a small boy on a train listing what he can see out of the window. Instead, their analysis largely consists of semi-articulately recounting what we at home can already see perfectly well with our own eyes. I can only assume, however, that they’ve since forgotten it, because very little seems to make it onto the air. But I’ve never been able to bear the witless droning from the gaggle of old pals he shares the studio with: Alan Shearer, Danny Murphy, Ian Wright and the rest.Īll are experienced former professionals, who spent their playing careers working under the finest managers in the game, and will therefore have accumulated vast reservoirs of fascinating insider knowledge about tactics and coaching. But I know that at least one of them would. Whether they would all tune in to watch another, I’m not sure. No doubt the reason for the surge was simply that this hysterical row had been dominating the news for days, and viewers were curious to see what a pundit-free programme would be like. Its bosses should try “stepping down” some more of its stars. On Saturday night, without any host, analysis or even commentary, Match of the Day was watched by a remarkable 500,000 more people than the week before. While Twitter continued to wail and weep over the martyrdom of St Gary, the programme’s viewing figures soared. But the people who pay their wages didn’t. ![]() ![]() In solidarity with Gary Lineker, the BBC’s football pundits all nobly decided to boycott Saturday’s edition of Match of the Day.
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