Match Of The Day

Stan Collymore criticises match of the day

Earlier on today I found this article and i really think it has a lot of truths and is something that needs to be said about the so called flag ship show of football in Britain, but in its current state the show is not fit for purpose and that's why I and many other people I know have been leaving the MOTD viewer-ship to watch football highlights else where

First of all I need to say in my opinion the show is to stuff and dry for my liking, for example the pundits you normally have Hansen and Shearer waxing lyrical about matters football, yet how many of them have actually managed a club successfully ? the answer is 0 yes none of them yet week in week out where here were current managers are going wrong. what gives these pundits the knowledge to say how to organise successfully training and drills to make sure that errors are corrected. and as we are on pundits Hansen and Shearer one word that comes to mind when i see these two on tv DULL, they never say anything risky or controversial about how a team plays and just almost seem to tow a line

As well the pundits need to have more knowledge of who they are watching ok they cant be an all seeing and all knowing but there were times on match of the day and during the world cup where you hear people saying ' we dont know much about ben afra' or I didnt know Veron is still playing for Argentina its ridiculous that its such a narrow ill informed view to football and how its played on a global stage is an insult to the viewers

Another thing that is wrong with match of the day at the moment would have to be the running order and how they analyse as a charlton fan we haven't been on MOTD since we got relegated but i all to well remember the sheer  annoyance of having to trall through the big 4's 20 mins of highlights to get to see 30 seconds of Charlton footage, then if a team out side of the big 4 beat a big 4 normally one of the first questions asked is ' so then what went wrong for Liverpool today then'  which in that one question wipes out and devalues all the good work that the other team has done.

so what needs to happen is a new host of motd id hope james richardson would get a good look in as he always seems to do well dating back to the football italia days on channel 4 then add some people to the panel with a bit of experience and who aren't afraid to say something else, and chose which games you are going to show not about which team has the most fans but which is the best football match and try to make the highlights seem fair.