I can feel Alan Shearer draining the life out of the soul of the universe every time he's on MOTD.

great comment from hallicks,

on a side note what is going on with Hansen's face? he's started wearing so much make up he looks like coco the clown, but they still always leave his turkey neck flapping about. age gracefully please.

also agree about Dixon a million times better than Shearer. sorry SHEAAAAARER!

The frustrating thing is that there are hundreds - hundreds! - of people who could provide greater intelligence, insight and wit than the current MOTD crew. It's just that they don't have names like Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer.

Personally I thought the pundits on both channels were poor. Mostly there was a clear lack of interest. And when Alan Green said after the Final that travelling around SA had been a massive chore I hoped (no doubt in vain) that this might be an excuse to finally dispense with him.

Just before the Finals Ipswich Town announced that Roy Keane might be doing some punditry. This seemed like blatant puffery (if he has no idea about management how could he be a pundit?) but after we were told the inevitable and the Finals started I was disappointed.

He would probably have been angry and offensive and hinted at the sort of behaviour that Town players now have to put up with. But what was the point of the pundits anyway? Aside from the likes of Claridge and Waddle on the radio one missed nothing by watching in a pub with the sound off or (hooray) the vuvuzelas up.

Rather like the England team isn't everyone becoming a bit bored with football in England? I don't go to Portman Road for the entertainment these days because there is none. There is misery and the hardcore fans are resigned to it.

It is time surely for MOTD to clear the slate and bring in some new blood. If the Prem is predictable and boring we need someone who is happy to say so.

Yes granted get rid of Alan Shearer,But I do look forward to Alan Hansens terse and dissmissive weekly lists of adjectives.
Coupled with phrases such as
"Hes got to play the percentages here....."
and
"Indecision is final"
You gotta love the guy,you cant get rid of all that.....

Strachan and O'Neil were fascinating to listen to as they told you things you couldn't see. Tim Flowers on the radio was telling the listeners about players altering positions during corners and how this was effecting the outcome. What we normally have to put up with though are the same old faces saying the same old things that we can all see for ourselves. I think a big part of it is the all consuming quest for INCIDENT. A penalty that might have been or is, a sending off or not, these are the things that take up the "analysis" of the game. Little time is spent on tactics, or changing of tactics etc. Unfortunately it is a product of the game going main stream. The proverbial discussion down the pub is not Wenger's adjustment in tactics when they lose a centre point striker, but of whether the ref got any decisions right in the game.

My team have just got into the premiership, but there is no way I'm stopping listening to the games on local radio because the cynical misery of some of the bigger pundits and commentators depresses me. Says something that I prefer tinpot local radio to national radio or tv.

In my humble opinion Adrian Chiles and Lee Dixon were miles better than Gary "Walkers" Lineker and Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson. Hansen and Lawrenson simply said the same every week as long as was able to watch it. And it never crossed my mind what kind of footballing wisdom Alan Shearer could bring to MOTD.

When talking about a team playing well, Alan Hansen finds it impossible not to use the phrase "pass and move".

However, the BBC pundits at the World Cup were positively God-like when compared to the shower they had on ITV.

Adrian Chiles couldn't complete a sentence without looking at his notes and why on earth did they drag Keegan out of retirement?! He has the knack of using lots of words to say absolutely nothing.