MOTD would have viewing figures on a level with Late Call and Gardner's World if it wasn't for the highlights bits. The pundits are totally carried by the action.
For years now MOTD has been screaming out for a complete overhaul. Every single face that appears on the show must be retired as a matter of urgency. It is
that tired and complacent. There is not one pundit on MOTD worth listening to. They are neither informative, funny nor entertaining. Although, bad as each of them is, Shearer actually excels in being out of sight worse than the rest. Hats off to you, Alan. It really is some special achievement to be even worse than Alan Hansen. To be worse than Robbie Savage deserves some kind of award.
It's quite funny watching them this season because it looks like they've tried to up their game, out-Sky Sky and get all 'technical' on us dumbos. In the past, the housewife's choice Hansen just turned up and waffled a load of old horse about "great finish -- power, pace, precision" or "I don't what the defender is doing there!", a comment which always provoked the response from me, "If you don't what he's doing why the fuck are you getting paid for it?"
This season he's got this thang about weight distribution. Last night, for some reason which remains bafflingly unclear, Colin Murray had to stand up while Hansen demonstrated why Kompany's weight was on the wrong foot at Spurs first goal. Anybody any the wiser after the demo?
If Kompany's weight had been on the other foot he might well have been able to block what I thought the goal was all about, Bale's thing-of-beauty pinpoint perfectly weighted and angled outside of the boot pass to Dempsey which took out both Kompany and Hart in one movement, but his feet had to be weighted somewhere. If Alan is going to get all technical on us maybe he could explain why Kompany chose (did he choose?) to use his other foot to stabilise himself. Maybe Bale spotted that his weight was on that foot? Or maybe Alan is just talking a lot of bollocks in trying to sound like he knows what he's talking about.
Robbie Savage clearly got it because in his summary he said that the goal came because Kompany's weight was wrong. That's right Robbie. Nothing to do with Bale then.
The programme hasn't even got any dynamic, a bit of argy-bargy, a bit of controversy. It's the same cliched thinking every week. What it lacks above everything else is intelligence.