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Just when I thought all was coming good. Hansen gone, Lawro on his way out, and then they go and do fucking this! Honestly, those who think there's no pro-Rag bias, wake the fuck up!

MOTD: Ruud Gullit, Philip Neville and Rio Ferdinand join show

Ruud Gullit, Philip Neville and Rio Ferdinand are joining Match of the Day as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Former Netherlands international Gullit, 51, and ex-England duo Neville and Ferdinand will be part of a team which will also include Alan Shearer, Robbie Savage and Danny Murphy.

Alan Hansen retired from his role as a pundit on the programme after 22 years following the World Cup finals.

The BBC will screen more than 12 hours of weekend football TV coverage.

Among the additions will be a Sunday morning repeat of the Football League show on BBC Two.

And the FA Cup is returning to BBC Television after a six-year absence, with 16 live matches on the road to Wembley and highlights of every round.

"Following on from an amazing World Cup that saw a huge audience appetite for football, BBC Sport is excited about delivering more content than ever before," said Barbara Slater, Director of BBC Sport.

"MOTD turning 50 is such a broadcasting milestone and we're hugely proud of the programme.

"This season we are looking forward to continuing to evolve this national institution and having the FA Cup back live on TV enables us to make even more impact with our coverage. Across TV, radio, online and digital platforms the audience won't miss a thing."

As well as Match of the Day, the BBC will continue to show MOTD2, MOTD2 Extra, MOTD Kickabout, Football Focus and Final Score.

Comprehensive online coverage will come via the BBC Sport website, while for the first time this season fans can sign up for goal alerts, team line-ups and scores as they happen through the BBC Sport app for mobiles and tablets.

More women's football, including internationals, the Super League and Women's FA Cup, will be broadcast than ever before.

And BBC Radio 5 live will again have the most extensive commentary portfolio available with a line-up including former England international Neville, an expanded role for ex-Wigan, Blackburn Rovers and Reading striker Jason Roberts and new Football Correspondent John Murray leading commentary alongside Alan Green.

Phil Neville. Jesus wept

nottsblue wrote:Phil Neville. Jesus wept

They were 2 of the most boring pundits around for the WC and the tripe that CamelGob spilled from those curly wurly lips made Jimmy Bullard look like an intellect.

Pathetic!

Rhombus Gob? FFS. He can't even string a sentence together!

it is even more hilarious that camel job will becoming straight after his matches with qpr.

so much for phils coaching career, i'm glad I don't pay my licence fee.

Begs the quiz of who has the worst punditry.

BBC - P Neville, Camel gob, Lawro, Shearer, Savage, Murphy, Crooks, Keown. Savage, Murphy and Keown are bearable

Sky - G Neville, Carragher, Redknapp, Quinn, Souness, Merson. Redknapp is an utter bellend and Souness disgraced himself towards end of last season. Carragher is finding his feet but Quinn and Neville are superior to the BBC. The Saturday afternoon guys are reasonable though I dislike Charlie Nicholas and am not keen on Thommo, though for a dyed in the wool scouser he isn't as bad as some of their brethren.

BT Sport - Owen, Mcmanamanamanamnan, James, Hargreaves, Gray, Ginola, Scholes. Owen, nuff said already, Gray and Ginola are good and Scholes has potential as he seems not afraid to speak out.

Who has the best pundits? Tough call but BT shades it for me and if they lose Owen so much the better. Perhaps they can send him to West Africa to cover a game in Sierra Leone

nottsblue wrote:Begs the quiz of who has the worst punditry.

BBC - P Neville, Camel gob, Lawro, Shearer, Savage, Murphy, Crooks, Keown. Savage, Murphy and Keown are bearable

Sky - G Neville, Carragher, Redknapp, Quinn, Souness, Merson. Redknapp is an utter bellend and Souness disgraced himself towards end of last season. Carragher is finding his feet but Quinn and Neville are superior to the BBC. The Saturday afternoon guys are reasonable though I dislike Charlie Nicholas and am not keen on Thommo, though for a dyed in the wool scouser he isn't as bad as some of their brethren.

BT Sport - Owen, Mcmanamanamanamnan, James, Hargreaves, Gray, Ginola, Scholes. Owen, nuff said already, Gray and Ginola are good and Scholes has potential as he seems not afraid to speak out.

Who has the best pundits? Tough call but BT shades it for me and if they lose Owen so much the better. Perhaps they can send him to West Africa to cover a game in Sierra Leone

It's a good round-up and I agree in general but IMO camel gob is a truly useless dickwipe who can't hide his profound ignorance and ingrained biases. As for that embarrassingly useless cockcheeseeater Owen . . well he was the inspiration that made me cancel my BT subscription and if more people took that stance then he'd be gone.

The three new ones for MOTD are all rubbish. Even Ruud Gullit has been uninspiring as a pundit whenever I have seen him. Only a small percentage of players make a success of this role, and it's usually the ones you don't expect. Same applies in many sports.

Rag bias - they'll probably have a studio backdrop including life size photos of Best, Charlton, Veron, Djemba Djemba and Bacon

That's incredible. If we've got to have rags, can't we at least have some who are actually good at it ? It's like they've gone for the bitterest rather than the best.

Scholes for example can't stand us but at least he talks sense & occasionally speaks the truth re the rags. I can only assume they have had loads of complaints from rags about scouse bias, so have employed two complete rag cunts to even it out.

chuckle 2 and camel twat!? ycnmiu.

edit: also, gullitt is boring as fuck.

pick your ideal then....

It's not April 1st already is it?

Nigels Tackle wrote:pick your ideal then....

Anyone that doesn't make me want to take a spirit level to their mouths.... I can't be doing with working out why my tv is no longer ultra millimetre perfect level ;-)

Who would I have, to be fair IMO savage hasn't been too bad, that said I think he comes across better on the radio (can't remember which game I listened to on the way home from work on 5 live during the recent World Cup, but he was very engaging through the medium of radio, dare I say it... A bit Jonathan Pearce 20 years ago commenting on England v ....., I can't remember, but "visualised" the game for me whilst driving. The game where the ball stopped dead in the puddle of the goal mouth?)

Anyway what I'm eluding to is camel gob (a) is fugging ugly & offensive when he appears on my HD TV (b) has the diatribe of a retard when he speaks....

2nd son of Neville Neville, at this stage I can't form an opinion of, as I've not seen/heard him in action and as for dreadlocks... He will sound as monotone as scar face that has just retired?

Beefymcfc wrote:

nottsblue wrote:Phil Neville. Jesus wept

They were 2 of the most boring pundits around for the WC and the tripe that CamelGob spilled from those curly wurly lips made Jimmy Bullard look like an intellect.

Pathetic!

Don't remember Jesus Wept doing any punditry.

Don't watch it much anyway but I assume they will be on the Sunday show.

We don't get any coverage and even if we win 5-0 every week the story of the great struggle of the rags from small town underdogs to champions will dominate it every week which is only right as they have brought through so many English youngsters this season and van gaal has already won the prestigious Guinness international cup ON HIS FIRST TRY no less.

Looks like motd is destined to go from bad to worse with that lot joining the show.Hard to believe anyone could think Rio Ferdinand is capable of doing a good job he's already shown he's a joke.Owens the worst of the lot at present but I have a feeling Rio will give him a run for his money.

Record and FF the 'punditry' for this season then - bloody joke!

I just KNEW they were lining up Ferdinand as a sodding pundit. Ah well, MOTD was getting old anyway.

Here's a thought. If Hansen and Lawro were brought into the Beeb after their period of dominance, does this mean the same will happen to the Rags?