In terms of sheer popularity you're right but MotD still serves a function as it's enjoyable to watch with other people. A social experience if you will. I'd like to see it stick around if just for that.
MOTD 2022/2023
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In terms of sheer popularity you're right but MotD still serves a function as it's enjoyable to watch with other people. A social experience if you will. I'd like to see it stick around if just for that.
You think any of us want to watch a Palace fans TV show?
You think 3 minutes highlights is enough?
MOTD is still a good football show, I enjoy it much more than catching United’s highlights online and I suspect most people wouldn’t bother searching twitter or youtube to watch highlights of Everton v Brentford.
If MOTD went, I’d barely see another none United game goal.
Sounds like the tiktok generation can’t concentrate for more than 3 minutes and prefer to spend time on their tiny little phone screens rather than sitting in front of the box for an hour watching the days football.
Thats the only thing that annoys me about Premier League highlights. The strange 3 minute hard cap they have on highlights, especially when looking at BT’s YouTube page, UEFA competition highlights range from 6-10 minutes on average, and sometimes they go over if there’s a lot of goals like that City 4-3 Real game last season.
Even a 6 minute highlight package of a game would be great. I don’t think I’ve sat down and watched MOTD since 2010 and based on that, I would guess 6 minutes of actual footage is what they dedicate to a relatively high profile match.
20 minutes of straight up football highlights sounds great to me. Cuts out the fat of a bald Geordie and Mr.Dad Jokes with the big ears.
I’m surprised at the negativity towards the show. I still think it’s a brilliant show to end a Saturday night. Even better it’s on iplayer.
As much as the punditry might not always be the best, it’s always great to watch how other teams got on as well as watching your own team again without the anxiety and tension of live Footy. Yes you can see the goals online now anyway, but it’s not the same as watching a “highlights” program which is more than just the goals.
The best ones are when Utd have won a big game combined with rivals all losing. It’s a joy to watch.
As much as the punditry might not always be the best, it’s always great to watch how other teams got on as well as watching your own team again without the anxiety and tension of live Footy. Yes you can see the goals online now anyway, but it’s not the same as watching a “highlights” program which is more than just the goals.
The best ones are when Utd have won a big game combined with rivals all losing. It’s a joy to watch.
MOTD is an institution. If United has a good weekend, it’s the confirmation, the icing on the cake, the ultimate end of the day gloat. Great too, for catching up if you miss a game. Lineker is human, he’s passionate and smart and the theme music stirs the soul.
You mean, whether you are an extreme Tory xenophobe or not?
Lineker is a cnut and I'm happy to see him suspended - even if it's for a bullshit reason. Feck him.
I hope you are not an adult.
I was in the Stretty for his last ever goal in England, I was 12, never heard before or since the name of an opposition player with no connection to the club sung like that. We even cheered him scoring ffs.
Absolute legend, seems anything but a cnut in fairness.
No, the tories are cnuts and Lineker is bang on in calling them out on their language towards migrants and refugees.
Why is he a cnut? He seems genuinely nice.
What's he done to you, Ty?
My guess would be a wanna-be hardman who struggles to cope with a difference of opinion. See current UK government for many examples.
Well, in Liverpools game their only “highlight” is going to be their penalty miss
I'm impressed at just how badly the BBC have handled this. Looking at the schedule tonight and seeing MOTD only being 20 minutes is just...fecking pathetic. I'm glad that the staff have taken a united stance on this one. It's fecking embarrassing that one tweet has received more criticism than the actual government policy, which is just appalling. Our country has sunk really low and it's so fecking depressing.
Feck Lineker. Always mocks bald people.
Out of all the vile and despicable people in the world who you could insult, you choose to have a go at a perfectly decent bloke like Linekar. The mind boggles
Good bloke but he is an ABU which I assume is the basis of some of the opinions here.
They didn't even play the intro! It's proper low effort, this is. 
Not even showing the starting lineups
Not even showing the starting lineups
This feels really odd. Like watching a foreign stream or something.
They should have binned it off for tonight, better highlights available for free on Sky Sports youtube channel.
It's fine I've doing my own commentary. Much more fun
Prime time Saturday night on BBC 1. Shambles. Should have just binned it off totally.
This is surreal but also much better than usual.
This is very weird.
This is ace yet somewhat eerie
They didn't even play the intro! It's proper low effort, this is.
All the production staff refused to do it, so this is all they can do instead
It's actually much better without all the drivel "analysis".
Did all of the video editing/graphics staff strike as well? It's literally just a feed of the highlights, presumably pre-packaged?
Magnificent.
This is so, so weird. It's actually not fun to watch at all. Even more disappointing than I thought it would be.
Shame on the camerapeople. Shame on them.
Ah, makes sense. Nice
I’m watching this and I’m also in the camp of thinking it’s weird yet improved
Sky should have put PL highlights with analysis on one of their Showcase channels for free just to stick it to BBC
Sky should have put PL highlights with analysis on one of their Showcase channels for free just to stick it to BBC
I'm enjoying the commentary. It's my Dad ranting on about how the BBC have been taken over by commies.