MOTD - A Joke?

[Fozzi]

I prefer to watch Goals On Sunday these days, you see almost as much action and the analysis is more entertaining.

[zeb]

me too. I much prefer adrian chiles and some of the pundits are better. I just wish they'd get rid of all the old arsenal liggers

[The jiffle king]

I quite like it. I played Saturday football for 10 years and never really saw many games live because of playing. I then used to go out Saturday evening and either watch it in the Pub, or wake up on Sunday and venture down to see how unlucky Southampton had been.

Now things are different. I'm not playing football and I am bored of the hype of football and 170k a week for Ronaldo, so I get to see the best bits whilst doing the ironing on a Sunday morning before going out for a 10-15 mile run.

Life has changed for me, but MOTD has a great place as I am not really into football anymore, but I can keep up to date and see the best bits.

T-J-K

[Killer2005]

Since I don't have sky it's the only way I could watch premiership highlights, and it's far better than itv football

[sleep envy]

zeb said:

me too. I much prefer adrian chiles and some of the pundits are better. I just wish they'd get rid of all the old arsenal liggers

and buy him a new shirt - he's worn the same one for 12 months

[Mx_Stu]

I find myself wanting to watch MOTD each week because as a football fan its what you have grown up with, In reality if I am at home watching TV on a Saturday night I'm not watching MOTD.

I much prefer goals on Sunday as you get a bit of banter between the hosts and guests whilst catching the goals. The hosts and co-hosts of MOTD are quite simply, boring.

I had been a semi-regular viewer of MOTD 2 on Sunday nights as it was the only chance to catch the goals from the majority of Spurs games which kick off at 3pm on a Sunday. However since the discovery of certain internet streams, this season I have been catching most of them live.

[Gun]

I think we're all forgetting just how bad ITV's The Premiership was when they won the contract to show highlights, MOTD does a much better job IMO.

[Mx_Stu]

Gun said:

I think we're all forgetting just how bad ITV's The Premiership was when they won the contract to show highlights, MOTD does a much better job IMO.

Just on opening tunes - MOTD's song is iconic and ITV's The Premiership runied a perfectly good song (U2 - beautiful day). I can't listen to that song now without chringing and expecting Andy Townsend and Robbie Earle to start talking rubbish.

[TEKNOPUG]

The match editing is really, really poor. I see a lot of live Premierships games yet the MotD highlights in no way reflect what actually happened in the game.

Team A may have had 70% of possession and lots of attacking moves and score a couple, whilst Team B were on the back foot and scored 2 goals from set plays. The MotD highlights will make it look like it was an even contest. It's not just the short highlights, the extended highlights are just as bad. I saw game live and team A were all over team B! MotD need to showed an abridged version of teh actual contest, not just the near misses.

[EngJock]

If you have Sky Sports package it is really quite simple. Football First on a Saturday night, good highlights and a choice of match. I just wish they would get rid of Andy Gray from their commentary/analysis team - he is the most biased WUM I have heard on TV, I'm surprised he gets away with it!

[MaxAndRuby]

They scraped the bottom of the barrel last night, Paul Dirkin was a pundit!!!!

[Gun]

MaxAndRuby said:

They scraped the bottom of the barrel last night, Paul Dirkin was a pundit!!!!

Yep, you'd have got more emotion out of a plank of wood.