MOTD

[Dave]

Quite frankly, it is ridiculous when people say that the Match of the Day commentators dub their words on afterwards.

We are at the stadium; we do 90 minutes live commentary, and then do the post-match interviews.

Sometimes, and very rarely, for technical reasons you have to re-do a line or two of commentary; but I am now in my ninth season of working on the programme and have only once had to re-dub a goal call. That was because I got the identity of the scorer wrong, which is something that every commentator dreads, and then lies awake for hours that night worrying about.

Sometimes a line or two is moved about the edit by the producer in charge of producing the highlights for a match. Mostly the viewer won’t notice, but just occasionally it jars, when a commentator predicts something might happen and then it does. Although having said that you do say things to help an edit, for example if a team are losing 3-0 and score to make it 3-1 with time running out you do wonder out loud if it could be the start of a dramatic late comeback.

So the clear answer to the original question is that the Match of the Day commentators most certainly are at the grounds, we do commentary on the whole match live, we do the post match interviews and then we go home. We do not go to BBC Sport in Salford to dub some commentary on – it’s an urban myth.

John Roeder

[Somniloquism]

The only times they used to obviously do it was when commentators were only sent to some grounds, but they needed commentary for the GotM competition so got those dubbed on if not from one of the main matches.

[eamonn]

Anyone who thinks our Tyrone isn't capable of such dark arts should remember his 'whoops, I accidentally stepped on Ibramihovich's head' caper before we signed him.

Don't forget he used to play for 'AFC dark Arts' [sic] before he played for us.

And Oliveira at Reading whose face he mashed-up. Leeds fans hate him for non-violent reasons, likely more to do with his race, but you don't mess with Ty.

[Louzie0]

Accidentally posted this elsewhere, but I thought there were going to be serious afters when I saw Forest’s owner approaching Nuno S Santo after the match v Leicester.

[Brazilian Villain]

Nice of them to do an Ollie tribute at the end of MOTD2.

[Brend'Watkins]

Nice of them to do an Ollie tribute at the end of MOTD2.

Very much so. I wasn’t expecting that.

[kippaxvilla2]

Really pissed off they didn't put that on first though.

[Meanwood Villa]

The only times they used to obviously do it was when commentators were only sent to some grounds, but they needed commentary for the GotM competition so got those dubbed on if not from one of the main matches.

Gerald Sinstadt got a lot of these I seem to recall.

[Brazilian Villain]

Really pissed off they didn't put that on first though.

Why? They always do those sort of things at the end of the show.

[Somniloquism]

Really pissed off they didn't put that on first though.

Why? They always do those sort of things at the end of the show.

The end was way past his bedtime. He has been really ill over recent days.

[dcdavecollett]

Shame they didn't include a goal from the Beast in the outro, as well.

Let's face it, there were plenty of brilliant ones to choose from.

[eamonn]

Still annoyed they didn't do a montage closer of Pete McParland last week.

[Somniloquism]

Like the BBC headline tonight.

Villa swat aside Spurs to move into the top five.

Although later in the article....

Morgan Rodgers' deft header was pushed past the post

[Brazilian Villain]

On second last tonight. Typical!

[Somniloquism]

Typical BBC bias.