MOTD

[Pat McMahon]

I know little and care less about the Gary Lineker situation. What I do know is that the whole thing shows the UK up for the shitshow that it is. That the whole place can lose its shit quite like this, well, it's not a good sign and not a good look.

Completely agree. People have totally lost the plot over this. After this week's MOTD, it's chip paper.

Andrew Marr did a 4 minute slot a few days ago reinforcing this point

[Dave]

Send Mark Lawrenson away in a little small boat somewhere.

The Falklands would be my suggestion.

The bottom of the Sargasso Sea would be mine.

[Percy McCarthy]

I love Match of the Day when we’ve won. From the music, the misfortunes of the other teams, our game and the analysis, it’s all lovely.

Even when we’ve lost I sit on the bog at work and watch it on my phone on Sunday morning. Sure beats working.

[Damo70]

Send Mark Lawrenson away in a little small boat somewhere.

The Falklands would be my suggestion.

The bottom of the Sargasso Sea would be mine.

I haven't seen or heard of Mark Lawrenson for ages so for all I knew he could have been a little boat somewhere
anyway.

[Dave]

Send Mark Lawrenson away in a little small boat somewhere.

The Falklands would be my suggestion.

The bottom of the Sargasso Sea would be mine.

I haven't seen or heard of Mark Lawrenson for ages so for all I knew he could have been a little boat somewhere
anyway.

As per Lizz's post - looking at the video of him talking he's aged so badly you'd assume it was his creepy uncle who's just been released from a VPU at Winson Green. A demographic that probably has a big GB News crossover.

Hope you're doing okay Damo, great to see you back posting.

[Louzie0]

I love it when we’ve won.

I’ve always loved the theme tune. I sold a load of early electronic keyboards in a Christmas toy department in a well known big shop in Manchester on a temp student job, when I played it every hour to demonstrate what the thing could do and it never failed to bring a crowd in from the escalator.

Like everyone else, I don’t watch it if we lose and there were those years in the Championship….there were also the seasons when ITV got the contract and it was brilliant to watch the first MOTD after that!

I don’t like the odd pundit ( DM - surprise!) but really enjoy hearing what most of them have to say, same with the commentators. It’s great if they are trying out someone new, and yes, thank goodness ML has gone, he was such an energy drain towards the end of his time, as was Alan Hansen.

I like Gary Lineker, Ian Wright, Alan Shearer, Martin McKeown; and Mark Chapman and Colin Murray as MOTD 2 presenters, including their radio. Female football presenters,  Alex Scott, Sue Smith and Gabby Logan.

And, great to see you back here, Damo70.

[dr.chekov]

Send Mark Lawrenson away in a little small boat somewhere.

The Falklands would be my suggestion.

The bottom of the Sargasso Sea would be mine.

I haven't seen or heard of Mark Lawrenson for ages so for all I knew he could have been a little boat somewhere
anyway.

As per Lizz's post - looking at the video of him talking he's aged so badly you'd assume it was his creepy uncle who's just been released from a VPU at Winson Green. A demographic that probably has a big GB News crossover.

Hope you're doing okay Damo, great to see you back posting.

I met him at Villa Park when we beat Inter (Phil King game). I guess he was commentating. Probably comes as a surprise to nobody, he was very miserable. 

[adrenachrome]

Lawro as a pundit was as animated and perceptive as your average tree stump.

Fock him and the horse he rode in on.

[Somniloquism]

It seem the Twitter account headlines and video clip is very out of context to the bulk of the interview. The clip used at the end was one of him showing off his "humour" and was in total contrast to most of the rest of the discussion.

[eamonn]

I'm no defender of "Lawro" but from that 10 second clip, he's clearly being tongue-in-cheek. He doesn't want Lineker sacked. Fake news.

[edgysatsuma89]

Yeah, it's mentioned a few times underneath the tweet that it is misleading. Still a twat, like.

[Bad English]

Yeah, it's mentioned a few times underneath the tweet that it is misleading. Still a twat, like.

What can you say, he's a country lad.

[danno]

Send Mark Lawrenson away in a little small boat somewhere.

The Falklands would be my suggestion.

The bottom of the Sargasso Sea would be mine.

I haven't seen or heard of Mark Lawrenson for ages so for all I knew he could have been a little boat somewhere
anyway.

He retired last year, football focus gave him a half arsed send off, which was weirdly appropriate given how lazy his “analysis“ often was.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Was it Lawro who said our fans had taken football back to the dark ages after our pitch invasion against the Albion? I didn’t watch it on telly, I was too busy skipping across the pitch with thousands of other delirious Villa fans. What a twat. Obviously, I take that back of it wasn’t him.

[dave shelley]

I've always seen Lawrenson as an arrogant, sarcastic arsehole and he's maddened me even more this morning by me being unable to spell his name properly whilst typing this!  Great player mind.

Welcome back Damo, hope all is good with you.