Match Reaction vs. Sunderland

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

If he moves to block the pass, the Sunderland striker sat on Koscielny's shoulder, drops back into the space to pick up the ball, or when Altidore makes the run, dragging Sagna with him, the Sunderland striker (Gardener?) can make the run directly through the middle.

Flamini is in exactly the right spot tbf.

[LDG]

You bastard.

I'm going to have to watch the whole gif now

[Power n Glory]

I have it on good word from a friend who worked there that the only one who actually watches the matches in detail is Dixon. The rest have their PA's doing all the work for them and they just talk about what's been highlighted. Explains their nonsense.

I really don’t find that hard to believe. All we get is lazy, clichéd statements from them. Makes me wonder how much football they watch in general. They shed no insight on the game at all. Sky needs to launch a rival show on Saturday evenings. Match choice is great and they shouldn’t get rid of that, but they’re needs be a bigger Saturday night highlights show.

[Power n Glory]

You bastard.

I'm going to have to watch the whole gif now

I was caught in a trance as well.

[GP]

BBC have first dibs on the highlights, so there's not much they can do about it.

MotD is massively shit though.

Getting rid of Hansen is a good move but you know they'll just replace him with another donkey like Owen or Savage.

[LDG]

I remember that MOTD for the Arsenal v Wolves game where Dicko had to apologise for the show on twitter afterwards.

They'd gone out of their way to show everything anti-arsenal. I think it was a Fabregas challenge or something that they showed? But completely ignored the straight red challenge (which wasn't given), by the Wolves player.

I was fuming watching it.

[Özim]

If he moves to block the pass, the Sunderland striker sat on Koscielny's shoulder, drops back into the space to pick up the ball, or when Altidore makes the run, dragging Sagna with him, the Sunderland striker (Gardener?) can make the run directly through the middle.

Flamini is in exactly the right spot tbf.

There's no way you can be sure of that (these Sunderland players aren't top class strikers with amazing movement) and even if he does it's Koscielny's job to track his run with Sagna behind him as cover.

We also have 2 midfielders pretty much free in the centre.

[Letters]

I quite like Dixon as a pundit. I think it was half time of the Fenerbache game he showed some clips of our defence and how the positioning was poor - if anyone should know about defensive positioning it's someone who was drilled for years by Graham. And Neville's good too.

The rest of them. Meh.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

Even BT sport have trumped them and they've been in existence for 2 months. They go to Mark Halsey during games to analyse big refereeing decisions, I think that's a great move. How can someone like Shearer or Hansen analyse refereeing decisions properly?

And they have a mini-pitch in the studio where experts get up during half time, make their way over to the pitch in the studio, and talk about the incidents that have taken place by reenacting them. They used it brilliantly to analyse Young's diving over the weekend. MOTD should have got onto this years ago.

Mini-pitch is shown here @ 1 min 20:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-23531950

Tbf that Jake Humphrey is a pretty decent presenter.

[Özim]

I remember that MOTD for the Arsenal v Wolves game where Dicko had to apologise for the show on twitter afterwards.

They'd gone out of their way to show everything anti-arsenal. I think it was a Fabregas challenge or something that they showed? But completely ignored the straight red challenge (which wasn't given), by the Wolves player.

I was fuming watching it.

I've seen them praise our football countless times, is it that just because they choose to show our weaknesses as well (which we do have otherwise we would have won plenty of trophies in recent years) that makes them anti- Arsenal?