What does Alan Hansen do for his money from the BBC?
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Can never seem to manage saturday and sunday match of the days in the same week.
So apart from 90 minutes on MOTD what else do Hansen do on the BBC?
So apart from 90 minutes on MOTD what else do Hansen do on the BBC?
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Well, not sure of his exact schedule, but i popped into TVC a few years ago and he was there all day wathing the feeds and making notes, and then sitting in with the highlight editor and getting him to pick out the exact footage he wanted to discuss on the show.
Don't get me wrong, i think he gets paid too much (then again he's not the highest paid pundit on TV) - but he isn't just there for 90 minutes.
So say he is there 9 hours on a Saturday or Sunday then.
Do he do out else, does he ever pop up on 5/live or BBC Scotland?
Whatever they are paying him I'll vote they double it to make him stay away.
9 0r 10, there or there abouts.
Sometimes he might do one of the extra MOTD's that go out midweek.
I'm sorry, i don't know the rest of his schedule. He's done the odd documentary, writes for the BBC website and the Telegraph and does some motivational speaking if that's any help.
I am not sure anybody really thought he did only 90 minutes.
just glad there is always bbc staff available to correct what the public think.
If any of them proved to be any good they would soon be poached by other broadcasters able to offer more money, and so you would have the perpetual situation where people on the BBC would be less good except for someone who's coming up through the ranks, and as soon as they look like becoming any sort of asset to the BBC they'd suddenly be offered more money to go elsewhere. This cycle would continue indefinitely, and is exactly the situation the BBC's rivals and critics would love to see as it would lead to a public perception of their programmes being inferior.
A few weather forecasts here and there, a bit of judging on SCD?
Bakes cakes for the local WI on Wednesdays.
Also in non world cup or euro years he get the entire off season off work:D
You cannot expect world class broadcasting for a small budget. Lots of staff do take a pay cut to work for the BBC. But you have to be realistic, if you want professionals you're going to have to pay for it.
Amazing how many people want top class broadcasting, but don't want to pay for it...
As if they would replace him with a 'nobody' - your talking a pile of shite ...
I never said it would happen. I said if it were to happen the audience would still be upset...
Dear God:rolleyes:
I'm struggling to find any way that Alan Hansen could be described as 'top' at anything. He hasn't played football at any level for 20 years. He's never managed. Any detailed knowledge of football he ever had would now be utterly outdated. Seriously, you think Alan Hansen can say anything insightful and new about Barcelona, who play a form of football that didn't even exist (and actually couldn't exist, due to requiring rules amendments that have happened since he retired) when Hansen was on the pitch? That he knows anything about how footballers now prepare for games, which has been revolutionised by the like of Prozone? That he understands how managers have to manage players who are paid more per week than he made in a year at his playing peak?
Alan Hansen is a pundit purely and simply because he was a pundit and the MoTD producers are too utterly bereft of inspiration and backbone to get rid of him. There have been other more recently experienced defenders recruited by rival broadcasters - Gary Neville at Sky and Lee Dixon, who was poached by ITV presumably at least partly because he didn't see any reason to play second fiddle to likes of Hansen and Lawrenson - who have shown exactly how utterly bereft Hansen has long been.
Hansen is a dinosaur who offers nothing. The idea that because the BBC pay him a lot of money therefore he has to be good at his job is so incorrect as to be genuinely humorous.
Don't you mean ghost writing!
Sacrilege! Who was first to realise that "you can't win anything with kids"? Hansen, that's who!
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