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You know the reason why viewing figures are on the up Mr Mosey!
Its because people like the Match of the Day name, you know people will be fixated to Match of the Day because of his history and that we are better informed from each game then before.
You know that either Gary, Gabby or Adrian will put out a point and it will be covered.

For me MOTD(2) will always be an intergral part of my premiership viewing, the only downside is you have such short edits around 10 minutes i think it is of each match.

MOTD2 is great especially the 2good2bad feature, can this not be extended to 3 minutes rather than 58 seconds.

Finally great news that Adrian Chiles has decided to stay with the ±«Óãtv after the offer from ITV- maybe in the future he could take over from Gary Linekar on MOTD.

"But someone said, a bit cruely and maybe after a trip to Derby..."


Ha ha ha! You're a funny guy! Maybe if you actually cared about football instead of ratings you'd reliase it's the bias within formally great programmes like MoTD pandering to the Big Four and displaying little knowledge or interest in what is happening elsewhere in English League Football and the creation of the white elephant that is the Premierleague that has helped carry along the increasing disparity between the divisions - something which will only get wider. I've stopped watching the ±«Óãtv's sport coverage as the increasingly lop sided and staid 'expert commentary' shows ignorance to people who don't share the incorrect view that the Premier League is the be all and end all. What has happened to Derby and events such as Game 39 are an idictment of those with power in the once beautiful game and can only help bring closer the day football eats itself.

Thanks for nothing.

Whilst its good to point out that MotD is doing well in the ratings, comparing the figures with live games is silly. The ratings for live games don't include the vast amounts of fans watching in pubs around the country. Plus, I would think the ±«Óãtv would have to do something terribly wrong with their football coverage for MotD to achieve lower viewing figures than a live game on satellite. The amount of people that have access to Sky Sports / Setanta is miniscule compared to those who can see MotD. Hence the "2 or even 3 times the viewing figures" you get compared to live games.

"An interesting statistic from Sunday is that the peak live audience for Wigan Athletic v Manchester United was 1.8m, whereas the MOTD high was 4.7m. And that fits into the overall story of the season with the highlights show routinely getting 2 or even 3 times the viewing figures for individual live matches."

Here's an even more interesting statistic; 60 million people have access to ±«Óãtv TV to watch MOTD highlights, whereas only 8 million or so have access to Sky or Setanta to watch live matches.

"...we will seek to bring more live football to the ±«Óãtv in the long term."

Good, but should that not be tempered with the apparent fact that there won't be a single live game of note on the ±«Óãtv for the whole of next season?

YojimboTheRam the simple fact is ±«Óãtv TV currently do not have the rights to lower league football. That wil change next season when they will have rights to the Championship.

Radio 5live sports extra throughout the season broadcasted championship football live but this stopped towards the latter end of the season any reason for this Mr Mosey?

On Sunday MOTD had both the Arsenal and Liverpool games near the end of the programme how is that pandering to the big 4?

Finally you must be in a minority who feels MOTD is not "great" anymore, as far as i am conecerned the ratings tell us a great deal about how well MOTD is doing and looking at those figures it seems it is going from strength to strenght.

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Well if you wanted to raise the MotD(1) ratings even more (or at least the quality), you could ditch the two Alans who despite having been great footballers in their time couldn't come up with something insightful to save their lives, and bump up Gavin Peacock and Lee Dixon who can actually analyse a game rather than just saying 'great goal' and 'that was never a pen'. If I wanted to hear the kind of boring rubbish Shearer and Hansen spout I'd just go down the pub.