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Match of the Day (abbreviated to MOTD) is a football highlights programme, typically broadcast on BBC One on Saturday nights, during the Premier League season. [5] [1] The show's current presenter is former England international striker Gary Lineker, with regular analysis from fellow former players Alan Shearer, and occasional relief analysts such as Micah Richards, Frank Lampard, Shay Given ...
Match of the Day was a program that aired on the now defunct NBCSN. The show, based on the BBC version also titled Match of the Day, featured highlights of the day's Premier League [1] action most Saturdays. A sister program, Match of the Day II, which also bears the same name as its BBC counterpart, highlighted the Sunday fixtures. [2]
2 November – The first colour edition of Match of the Day is shown on BBC 2. [104] [105] 1969. 1 June - The first live broadcast of an England international played outside Europe is shown on ITV, a 0-0 draw in Mexico. [106] 9 August - Match of the Day switches, for one season only, to a regional format. Aside from FA Cup weekends, the ...
Gary Lineker's career at the BBC's Match of the Day (MOTD) began in 1999, kick-starting his quarter-century career as the leading face of the Premier League highlights show. Here, The Independent ...
Gary Lineker to leave Match of the Day at the end of this season – with BBC departure date set. 13:30, Mike Jones. Gary Lineker will leave Match of the Day at the end of the season, it is widely ...
This was the first time an edited football match, recorded on videotape, had been shown on television anywhere in the world. [14] League football was soon to gain a nationwide audience once more. In 1964, the BBC introduced Match of the Day – originally shown on BBC2 and intended to train BBC cameramen for the forthcoming 1966 World Cup.
The evening highlights programme was initially broadcast late evening on BBC2 when the channel launched in 1964 and titled Wimbledon: Match of the Day.It moved to BBC1 in 1984, [2] in the era when Des Lynam hosted with Gerald Williams as a studio guest.
Six leading Match of the Day commentators have added to the growing boycott of Saturday’s programme after Gary Lineker was stood down by the BBC. A joint statement from the group, which includes ...