Childish, inarticulate idiot with a staggering lack of self-awareness leaves the Beeb, thus doing us all a fucking good favour.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560256&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow

What fans really want people dressed like is the 16 year old Angelina Jolie that that page links to. Aye Carumba!

But you know. As long as they are 16, or older.

Christ. That joke could see me getting locked up.

I think my favourite Ian Wright moment was at half time in one of the second round matches of the last World Cup and Lineker asked him a question about one of the teams. He sighed and then said "Links, to be honest I only care about England".


I then began to gnaw my own fist.

They (the MotD pundits) are all, pretty much, universally awful but Wrighty is the worst of the lot.

I really won't miss his moronic banter and, supposedly, patriotic cheerleading.

It'd be nice to have some people on there who knew a little bit about tactics and the teams and players outside of the "Big Four".

Shame Martin O'Neill is busy at Villa as he always seemed, to me, to actually know what he was talking about.

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Wright, 44, whose BBC role earned him an estimated £50,000,

Fucking hell.

O'Neill combines intelligence with actual opinions, and presents them in an interesting way. I don't think any of the other Beeb pundits has all three of those attributes.

My favourite Wrighty punditry moment was the immediate reaction in the BBC studio/box when Portugal knocked England out of Germany 2006. The camera cuts from the pitch to the studio where an ashen-faced Lineker tries to extract some insightful commentary from the studio guests. Hansen and Shearer (I think) were giving it the usual, "Oh, it's terrible/so unlucky/inferior technique/diving foreigners".

Wright, meanwhile, is not looking at the camera or Lineker. He's seemingly chewing through his fingernails and is staring out at the pitch.

"Ian, your thoughts?" asks a nervous Lineker.

(Near inaudible) "I... I just... I thought, you know....... I really thought this was gonna be our year, y'know? I..... I don't wanna talk about it..."

Classic stuff. Wouldn't even get that with Dunphy, Brady and co.

You've all got it wrong. Wrighty left because of bullying from Lineker, Hansen and Shearer and the BBC's policy of 'cultural apartheid'.

Preposterous nonsense from The Guardian

I would probably agree with the guardian article

Jesus. They really believe that people tune in because of them, don't they?

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Are blacks only good enough for kicking a ball around but insufficiently endowed with grey matter to make good pundits? In which case, please explain why Marcel Desailly (the object of Ron Atkinson's racial slur) and Ruud Gullit are two of the most interesting pundits to have appeared on television and certainly far superior to the present MOTD crowd.

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Ian Wright was deeply unpopular because he was a self-absorbed twat whose entire modus operandi from his first milisecond on telly was to cast himself as a joker, a ludicrously jingoistic twerp who would not even pretend to do the job he was lucratively paid for if England weren't playing, and a hopelessly compromised favouritist in whose company other pundits would not dare criticise the deeply mediocre displays of his adopted son.

If anybody claims any one of those criticisms has the slightest thing to do with his race they are a liar, and a grotesquely ugly freak.

Blacks are perfectly capable of being pundits, and managers. Ian Wright - incidentally black - is a fucking idiot. End of story.

In the entire history of terrace songs, my two favourites have been directed at Chelsea in recent years. The first is "One man went to lifet, went to lift Frank Lampard, one man two men three men and their dog and a forklift truck, went to lift Frank Lampard".

I thought it would be a long time befor ethat was topped - then I heard

"He's shit!
Up front!
His Dad's an Utter Cunt,
Shaun Wright-Phillips, Shaun Wright-Phillips..."

I saw a TV programme once which had a piece on it about the match between England and Argentina at St-Etienne in the 1998 World Cup. Jim Rosenthal told the interviewer of how he had been standing there watching the match, when he suddenly became aware that he was coming under a bombardment of abuse and missiles from the Argentine supporters that were immediately under the commentary gantry. He looked around to see Wright, draped in a flag, leaning over above the Argentine supporters, flicking Vs and generally being abusive towards them.

Ian Wright: pride of the British media.

Thank you, Toro, I was trying to think of anything that didn't just end up with me sighing and saying "He is just such a cunt"

As far as the race thing goes, he is now (unless someone can disabuse me of this notion) playing up to someone at Sky's lazy idea of "John Fashanu used to present Gladiators, why don't get another black ex-footballer "character"? I know Ian Wright"

Everything that happens to Ian Wright happens because of Ian Wright.

As far as the BBC and race goes, Mark Bright, Garth Crooks, Marcel Desailly, as pointed out, are all regualr on the BBC

Any single person on here could do a better job than Wright on the other hand including the ones that never venture out of "World"

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Being out of the country, I've seen little of 'Wrighty', so I can't comment, but somehow I have more of an idea of Hansen (perhaps because he's on more often and I catch him when I occasionally go back home), and I can say that I really f*cking hate his oily smugness. And sorry .. how many English ex-players are pundits for Scottish games?

And yes ... what's with this idea that ex-footballers have any idea of what's going on? They could give us revealing insights into what goes on behind the scenes, but we rarely get a sniff of that. And their analysis of games is invariably pants.


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