Regardless of what happpens in any one game their contract states they can only show 10mins highlights of any one game IIRC, hence why some games seem to be missing vital highlights and others 'padded' out.
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Regardless of what happpens in any one game their contract states they can only show 10mins highlights of any one game IIRC, hence why some games seem to be missing vital highlights and others 'padded' out.
Well if that is the case, I'd rather they show 10 minutes of highlights of all games and not 10 minutes of Man Utd every week followed by 10 minutes of talk about the game and then reduced highlights of other games.
Sorry, I didn't word my first post very well. They aren't allowed to show more than 10 mins highlights of any *one* match. In theory they could show 10 mins highlights of every match, but then you've got to factor in that teams like Stoke, Sunderland and QPR play every week so that start to complicates things.
Fair point!
Has anyone else been using the live TV delay feature on iPlayer to watch the MOTD rerun on Sunday mornings? They usually rerun it around 7-8am and you can go back 2 hours, so if you get up at 10 you can still watch! I was wondering if that had any effect on their licensing terms the other day, I guess not though.
They should replace all of the MOTD presenters with the cast of the Fast Show, not just the obvious 'Jumpers for Goalposts guy', but all of the characters, this would be immense.
News international has just bought the rights to show highlights online after the game. As in what you see on the ESPN goals app which I think will now be defunct. You'll have to download an App from The Sun I believe. Bet the fuckers charge for it too!
I definitely think there's a place for analysis of the games alongside highlights, the problem is that MOTD doesn't offer any analysis at all, just cliches and bullshit. I don't have much time for Murray, found him annoying, but Shearer, Hansen and Lawro are infuriating, they're an insult to anyone who has a clue about football. They don't do any work, no research, no prep, nothing, I suspect they comment on games that they haven't seen sometimes, and they don't tell us ANYTHING that we haven't just seen ourselves, "He buried that!" "Oh, and the keeper's fumbled the ball, that's a mistake!" Yeah, no shit! Shearer saying he didn't know who Ben Arfa was when he signed for Newcastle was a real low. Bad enough that he never heard of him despite him being a French International, regularly in Champions League, and one of the most hotly tipped teenage talents in world football, but that he never even bothered using his sources at Newcastle to find out anything!! Robbie Savage, Dion Dublin and Michael Owen seem to be the new breed, depressing.
Hate to say it, but Lee Dixon was the only pundit who offered any insightful analysis on BBC, and now he's fucked off to ITV.
Tbh, I don't watch MOTD anymore, unless Spurs win, and then I just watch the highlights only. Catch up with the other goals with Goals on Sunday, SSN, or online.
Hate to say it, but Lee Dixon was the only pundit who offered any insightful analysis on BBC, and now he's fucked off to ITV.
Tbh, I don't watch MOTD anymore, unless Spurs win, and then I just watch the highlights only. Catch up with the other goals with Goals on Sunday, SSN, or online.
I like Goals on Sunday, the format is relaxed and having two completely new guests every week keeps it interesting.
another thing that fucks me off is pundits and commentators not knowing/understanding the current laws of the game, mostly due to willful ignorance about a game they stopped playing years ago
here in Ireland the analysis is much better, I remember during the recent Euros there was an incident in the first half of a match and the panel were arguing over a decision, think it may have been an offside decision or something. point is, during the ad break they looked up the rule book and read out the relevant passage to the audience to show that it was the correct decision according to the rules, as opposed to according to their ignorant presumptions. how simple a thing to do is that? but no, you constantly here so called experts getting handball laws wrong, offside laws wrong, etc, etc
how about having an ex-ref on panels? or at least in the background to back up the pundits with accurate info. there's a few podcasts that have qualified refs from time to time and I always think it's interesting and useful
here in Ireland the analysis is much better, I remember during the recent Euros there was an incident in the first half of a match and the panel were arguing over a decision, think it may have been an offside decision or something. point is, during the ad break they looked up the rule book and read out the relevant passage to the audience to show that it was the correct decision according to the rules, as opposed to according to their ignorant presumptions. how simple a thing to do is that? but no, you constantly here so called experts getting handball laws wrong, offside laws wrong, etc, etc
how about having an ex-ref on panels? or at least in the background to back up the pundits with accurate info. there's a few podcasts that have qualified refs from time to time and I always think it's interesting and useful