The Match of the Day plans have angered the right people, while Roy Keane countered Peter Drury and Gary Neville to make the Manchester derby palatable.
There were pretty well-sourced rumours this week that the post-Lineker world for Match of the Day would replace the great crispy one withIt utilises existing established and well-liked talents in a flagship role. At least they haven’t given it to Gregg Wallace; you never know with the BBC’s love of a widely alleged abuser.
I watched for six hours and didn’t fall asleep once, mostly because I find Tim Sherwood hilarious to the point that I think he’s played by actor Paul Whitehouse.A major weakness of Soccer Saturday, however, is the inclusion of Mike Dean. Present to run the rule over VAR decisions, he’s on a hiding to nothing as the senseless VAR’s decisions are regularly disregarded as ludicrous and making football worse.
Last Thursday this meant Peter Crouch was with Alan Hutton and the redoubtable Geordie Lynsey Hipgrave, who did appear toy-sized in comparison, for. My missus is a Geordie and seems to think a Geordie on the telly is related to her in some way and spends an hour trying to identify where Lindsey is from in Newcastle. She thinks it might be Heaton or Fenham, for what it’s worth. Definitely north of the Tyne.
Sky give it the big sell anyway and a very relaxed and typically engaged Chapman works for Sky on this alongside Izzy Christiansen and the metal-grey-hair-like-a-Brillo-pad Jobi McAnuff, who is their non-Premier League go-to man and seems more erudite than many; he probably had to be with a first name like that in the Reading locker room.
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