No Gary, no pundits... this was the best ever Match Of The Day!
FOR the first time on Saturday I had no need to record Match Of The Day so I could fast forward all the talk from Gary Lineker and his pals. As the edition was cut to 20 minutes and showed only the football, I didn’t need to mute the sound to avoid hearing the commentators. Oh joy! I could watch the matches, hear the crowd and make up my own mind about the action. The BBC should dispense with the services of all the presenters, pundits and commentators and allow viewers to think for themselves. The money that would be saved might even lead to a reduction in the licence fee.
GRAHAM ROSS, Loughborough, Leics.
I HAVE enjoyed watching televised football for 40 years, so was concerned how I would react to just the edited highlights with no commentary. The absence of the pundits was no big deal. Who needs commentators and their endless, though well-intentioned, waffle? Unintentionally, Gary has done the nation a favour.
DOUG JENNINGS, Mickleton, Glos.
I STOPPED watching Match of the Day a couple of years ago because of all the waffle from Gary Lineker and his pundits. Now that the BBC has a chance to get rid of them and has bottled out, I have every reason to return my TV licence.
MIKE HIGGINS, Dundee.
AS A senior citizen and a widow – still working in order to keep my head above water – I object to the fact that my licence fee goes towards paying Mr Lineker’s obscenely high salary. If I were remotely interested in football, I’m sure I would be able to work out the score and who scored the goals!
NORMA LINDSAY, Perthshire.
IF THERE is a long queue in a fast food restaurant and someone walks straight up to the counter and orders two double cheeseburgers, I would rightly expect the manager to point out the rules of queuing. So it is with legal and illegal immigration. The Government is right to bring in legislation to try to curb the queue jumpers, and for Gary Lineker to link this to Nazi Germany in the 1930s is plainly absurd.
PHIL JOHNSON, Bishopton,
Renfrewshire.
GARY LINEKER and co are paid an obscene amount of money. I’d sack the lot of them. If the rules of normal working were broken by us lesser mortals I don’t think we would last long.
MRS i. MACKAY, East Kilbride.