Television bosses are considering a root and branch redevelopment of British punditry, amid claims that imported stars, such as Clarence Seedorf and David Ginola, are harming the prospects of young English pundits. The move comes in the aftermath of the Match of the Day team’s poor showing at the World Cup. This dip in form [...]
Posts Tagged ‘MOTD’
Influx of foreign talent harming development of homegrown pundits
Posted in News, tagged alan shearer, BBC, Clarence Seedorf, David Ginola, Jamie Redknapp, Mark Lawrenson, MOTD, Ruud Gullit, Sky Sports on November 2, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Arsenal apparently don’t like it up, across, through, or lunging recklessly into them
Posted in News, tagged Aaron Ramsey, alan hansen, alan shearer, Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Chris Kamara, Ian Payne, Mark Lawrenson, MOTD, Robbo Robson, Ryan Shawcross, Stoke on March 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Following painstaking research from the nation’s leading football pundits, and Robbo Robson, it has been discovered that many Arsenal players – amazingly – do not take kindly to being maimed every other year. As well as not relishing the time-honoured British traditions of seeing their stricken teammates’ limbs hanging off by a spindly thread and [...]
“[INSERT PLAYER NAME] for England” says [INSERT PLAYER NAME]
Posted in News, tagged alan hansen, England, Fabio Capello, gary lineker, Mark Lawrenson, MOTD, South Africa, WC2010 on September 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Following his perfectly acceptable performance against [insert team], there has been talk of [insert player name] playing his way into the England squad for next year’s World Cup in South Africa. Speaking after the match, with the potent combination of sweat and adrenaline still coursing through his cerebral cortex [insert player name] said “If I [...]
What Alan Shearer Knows about…breaks
Posted in WASKAF, tagged alan hansen, alan shearer, Any excuse to mock the band Jet, Colin Hendry, Fernando Torres, Liverpool, MOTD, Newcastle, Ronaldo, Sami Hyppia, Steven Gerrard on March 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Like the resplendent Alan above*, I have been taking a break from the WASKAF posts. I’d love to pretend that this was because my Saturday nights have all been spent larging it in Faces with second-string England players, but in reality it has been post-traumatic stress. After about four WASKAFs, I realised that I could [...]
Match of the Day refuse to broadcast Hull Crisis Appeal
Posted in News, tagged alan shearer, gary lineker, Hull, jon champion, Mark Lawrenson, matt smith, Milwall, MOTD, The Champion-Lawrenson combination ruined PES, Using political allegories as a front to vent about TV football on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday’s Hull vs Milwall cup-tie left over 50 seats in the KC Stadium in ruins. Many hundreds more were scuffed, leading to local hardware stores being overwhelmed. Yet the Match of the Day team have controversially refused to transmit the Disasters Emergency Committee Hull Crisis Appeal, reports Nigel Spickanspan Speaking at a press conference, Gary [...]
What Alan Shearer Knows…
Posted in WASKAF, tagged alan shearer, Football Focus, kieran richardson, Micah Ricahrds, MOTD, WASKAF on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Back from international week, Alan was refreshed, restored, and radiating the matchless confidence of a man who knows he will never lose his cushy job of sitting legs akimbo on an angular sofa and talking for up to 4 minutes at a time. It’s very easy to mock the intelligence of footballers- some would say [...]
Alan Hansen’s Abstract Noun of the Week
Posted in Alan Hansen's Abstract Noun of the Week, tagged alan hansen, i would like to propose that England fans chant THEEEEEEOOOOOO in the style of Bill Cosby, MOTD, theo walcott on September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This week’s Match of the Day was brought to you by the word: COMPOSURE and the number 14, for Theo Walcott. A tricky situation for Hansen here, as he had to basically admit that he had been very wrong. Which he did manage, but with the expression of a man who had been handed a [...]
