Gary Lineker to leave BBC's Match of the Day

[Spuderoony]

Alex Scott is more of a pundit than a presenter. Apparently Chappers won't do it for what they're offering. I think the presenter needs more charm rather than just the insight/charisma of a pundit. That's why Eni Aluko is so disliked in my opinion whereas Alex Scott, Gabby Logan and Laura Woods and suchlike are viewed more favourably because they're just positive and not morose and miserable

 

[Fluffybob]

Woohoo

 

[imtoooldforthis]

I feel like they could maintain the same viewership by just sacking off the host and pundits altogether and simply having longer/better highlights.

At no point when watching football am I ever left thinking 'this would be better with 2 minutes of tactical analysis from Alan Shearer'.

 

[Bubo]

Dion Dublin did an obvious audition for the main presenters role at the start of MotD yesterday, wishing Gary Lineker a happy birthday with a bit of a comedy dig at his age, number of candles on the cake, fire risk etc. It looked fairly unscripted with Dion making sure he got his joke in before the show started. My immediate reaction was that is Dion just going for it, and you know what I wouldn't mind if Dion Dublin got the gig. He is already quite affable and does presenting on his home selling gig or whatever that is.