Match of the Day vs The Premiership

Are you saying Matt Smith is gay? I doubt it.

What I will miss: The Premiership on Monday.

Perhaps I have not yet made that clear.

no more Andy Townsend ! YES

Are those five teams promoted via the play offs just since the start of the premiership? or does it include the old 2nd div play off's? Because if it is just since the start of the premiership I would say that five teams is a really high number.

The PoM - words cannot express how much I despise this show. Truly truly truly. The same sort of cockfarmers who work in football marketing infest this utter shower of shite. Champagne moment? Fact of Fiction? WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK? They had this idea that if they thought it was good for a laugh on set, it would be in real life in TV land. This is not true, because they are meejar cunts.

The idea was tactics talk like its down the pub. It is wrong on several levels - down the pub chat is usually shite - that is the point. I want analysis that shows me things I couldn't see. I want straight down the line authoritative - BBC at its best does these things. I fear that MOTD's team are usually so giddy to be back to together that they get all silly. Also, it wasn't realistic, as a player would have said 'fuck tactics - look at the tits on her'.

PS - employ Steve Claridge. Very perceptive on 5Live. Unlike Carlton Palmer.

PPS -Matt Smith's look to camera made me want to kick my screen in. Everytime I try to type what it is about him that irks me so, I end up like a Tasmanian Devil whirling around in madness.

Forgive Stan Collymore his dogging exploits and get him back in the co-commentators seat.

Please.

Which is more than the bloody Premiership ever did.

Eagles Vs Hammers - for a place in the Priemership [and on MOTD]

I wonder whether ITV's show might become venerated in its absence?

I guess that will mainly depend on how much use the BBC make of Wright, Dixon, Adams, Winterburn, Schmeichel, and any other pundit I don't like.

I worry that they are on the verge of tossing their golden legacy down a storm drain.

Not with its coverage of the actual games? More of it and far less bias towards the big three. And TONY GUBBA!

And Peacock over Allen eight days a week.

He used to be, sure. Anmy recent examples, tho'? I get the feeling he's coasting these days, repeats himself a hell of a lot.

= more football - one and half hours of football versus Coke idents, Townsend prattling and Lynam phoning in his performance. he was like Brezhnev in his later days - it could have been a hologram of any Des perfroamnce since 1998 and you couldn't tell.

ITV are shite at football - always have been. I refer anyone to the idea that anyone would listen to a 7" single of their 1986 World Cup theme tune, then use it as their normal theme tune for the next 4 years, regardless of the non-mexican flavour of Sunday 1st division football from Villa park. Cockfarmers, who also started the Premeirship off (Cheers Greg Dyke!) and who by only shoing 'the big five' ensured that those self-same five becamse even more self-important and agressive. So fuck ITV and dig up the founders of it and fuck them too.

MOTD also ahs more match action from all games, which the Premiershite couldn't do. All in all - I have actually made my saturday's fit around seenig MOTD which I never did under the Premiership because it was just rubbish.

Pinefox only asks this because of Matt Smith luv - have you seen him on that stoopid ptrolhead show PF? His matey askance looks and 'I'm just like you viewer only I get to compere these wankers talk shite' really fell on its bum.

I don't believe this to be true. Perhaps it's a false memory but I don't recall late '90s/early '00s MOTD to be purely the Arse and the Manch (and the Chelse).

I thought they should have analysed Atouba's goal a bit more, and they should have made a catty comment about Carr.

Good point that Hansen may be relying on reputation. Look how far back in his chair he slumps!

I think Boyle wants to get in the ring. But with whom?

My comments had little to do with Matt Smith, who never presented the Saturday night Premiership anyway. But it's true, he may have swayed me a little ITV's way.

Allen over Peacock - 6 days a week will do me. He can rest on the 7th.