Because it's been off our screens since the season ended I hadn't even thought about MotD. I shall probably do the usual and record it so that I can fast-forward the mates-down-the-pub banter and just watch the highlights.
I've felt for a long time that the programme is running on empty: it needs a fresh look about it, a new format.
To begin with I would suggest they get rid of Lineker and his mates - absolutely no reason to have them there in the first place. After the opening credits (and of course the theme music) there should just be a scrolling text informing us about the highlights that we are about to see: teams, formations, important statistics, etc, and then on to the game.
I fail to see what Shearer and the rest do to justify their wage packets. They sit there in a warm and cosy studio and talk about what we already know, they show replays of events that we've already seen, and then Billy-goat Lineker turns smugly to the cameras and delivers a toe-curlingly awful pun that is so bad, and so poorly executed, that you almost feel embarrassed for him - almost.
Rinse and repeat. The three words that sum up the BBC.
