MOTD

[Clark W Griswold]

I turn the sound off when Pearce is commentating, and have for a while.

[chrisw1]

I like MOTD

I think the presenters are excellent and despite the rough ride they get on here most of the pundits are pretty good and I enjoy their analysis. Even Murphy sometimes makes sense.

[Clark W Griswold]

It’s not been the same since Jimmy Hill left :-)

[eamonn]

I like MOTD

I think the presenters are excellent and despite the rough ride they get on here most of the pundits are pretty good and I enjoy their analysis. Even Murphy sometimes makes sense.

Agreed. Wouldn't go so far as excellent presenters but cliché/articulation-aside, the pundits do usually spot stuff in the analysis that most fans wouldn't.

[JUAN PABLO]

I sponsored a FA Cup game between Hinckley and Brentford a few years back whickwas on MOTD .
While I was stood next to him Jonathan Pearce  watching the cup draw after the game  with Mark Bright , all he kept saying to me was 'whens the buffet open'

Greedy bastard

[Dave]

I like MOTD

I think the presenters are excellent and despite the rough ride they get on here most of the pundits are pretty good and I enjoy their analysis. Even Murphy sometimes makes sense.

Agreed. Wouldn't go so far as excellent presenters but cliché/articulation-aside, the pundits do usually spot stuff in the analysis that most fans wouldn't.

It's also deliberately targeted at a broader level of interest, rather than football obsessives. Anyone going out of their way to post on a football team's internet forum is probably already too engaged in the subject to really be what MOTD is providing for.

I reckon there probably is room for some sort of more in-depth tactical analysis programming and if I were in charge that's what I'd do with the Sunday night show. But the Saturday show is probably about right for the sort of Saturday audience that it's aiming to cater for.

[algy]

I sponsored a FA Cup game between Hinckley and Brentford a few years back whickwas on MOTD .
While I was stood next to him Jonathan Pearce  watching the cup draw after the game  with Mark Bright , all he kept saying to me was 'whens the buffet open'

Greedy bastard

"who ate all the hors d'oeuvres?
who ate all the hors d'oeuvres?
You fat bastard!
You fat bastard!
You ate all the hors d'oeuvres!"

[Chris Smith]

I like MOTD

I think the presenters are excellent and despite the rough ride they get on here most of the pundits are pretty good and I enjoy their analysis. Even Murphy sometimes makes sense.

Agreed. Wouldn't go so far as excellent presenters but cliché/articulation-aside, the pundits do usually spot stuff in the analysis that most fans wouldn't.

I can’t stand listening to them, particularly if Micah Richards is involved. I record MOTD and will watch on Sunday morning, as long as we haven’t lost, but fast forward through all of the chat other than for our game.

[PeterWithesShin]

Gary Lineker thought he had a "special agreement" with the BBC's director general to tweet about refugees and immigration, his agent has said.

In a piece in the New Statesman, Jon Holmes has described the crisis talks held with BBC bosses during last week's stand-off.

He said he warned them that suspending Lineker could be damaging, hours before a staff walk-out began.

The BBC apologised for the disruption and will review its social media rules.

On last week's row, Mr Holmes said: "Gary Lineker, with whom I've worked since 1980, had tweeted about the policy, reiterating his support for refugees.

"Gary takes a passionate interest in refugees and immigration and, as he saw it, had a special agreement with Tim Davie, the BBC's director general, to tweet about these issues."

He said social media guidelines for some BBC staff were "a bit vague", but said his client "assiduously avoids" appearing on political programmes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64976007

[paul_e]

To round this out Linekar has 'won' his case against HMRC - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gary-lineker-tax-hmrc-win-b2309500.html

Tribunal Judge John Brooks found the IR35 legislation did not apply because there were direct contracts between the presenter and both the BBC and BT Sport.

The tribunal found that while Gary Lineker Media (GLM), which he set up with his then wife in 2012, was a partnership to which IR35 legislation applies, the appeal was still dismissed in full because contracts existed.

The judge said: “As a matter of law, when Mr Lineker signed the 2013 BBC Contract, the 2015 BBC Contract and the BT Sport Contract for the provision of his services, he did so as principal thereby contracting directly with the BBC and BT Sport.

“As such, the intermediaries legislation cannot apply – it is only applicable ‘where services are provided not under a contract directly between client and the worker’.

“In this case Mr Lineker’s services were provided under direct contracts with the BBC and BT Sport.

“Although such a conclusion might appear inconsistent with my conclusions that the intermediaries legislation can apply to partnerships… that is not the case.”

[eamonn]

Time to set the dogs on him or at least Risso.

[Risso]

Time to set the dogs on him or at least Risso.

It's the First Tier Tribunal. Let's see what the Upper Tier says. The lower lot have ruled on something of a technicality, not the actual substance of his working relationship with the BBC.

[AV82EC]

Time to set the dogs on him or at least Risso.

It's the First Tier Tribunal. Let's see what the Upper Tier says. The lower lot have ruled on something of a technicality, not the actual substance of his working relationship with the BBC.

Is that what happens Risso? Does it go up automatically or do HMRC have to appeal it there?

[lovejoy]

There was a lot of chatter when the right wing media set the dogs on Lineker the other week around him being a tax dodger. They've all gone a bit quiet now, no apologies, no shame. What a world we live in. Probably all shouting at the homeless now.

[pauliewalnuts]

I sponsored a FA Cup game between Hinckley and Brentford a few years back whickwas on MOTD .
While I was stood next to him Jonathan Pearce  watching the cup draw after the game  with Mark Bright , all he kept saying to me was 'whens the buffet open'

Greedy bastard

Ha ha, that's a good one - you should submit to @SpottedPLPlayer