As soon as Nev criticised Oxlade Chamberlin and Ozil for walking around, somebody must have told him in his ear that Ox is about to be substituted for an injury because he retracted what he'd said by adding "unless one of them is injured".

Everton v Liverpool- Simon Brotherton for the BBC

Martin Tyler interview http://www.98fm.com/Voice-Of-Sky-Spo...usivelyTo-98FM

I reckon a lot of people missed it. If it hadn't have been for Beagrie leaning in for the kiss I might have overlooked it myself!

Here's a behind-the-scenes clip from afterwards - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tX5PxkDJGI

So, back to Minto presenting all-things Football League.

Never Change Garth Crooks. Never Change.

Garth's weekly column on BBC Sport now gets a lot of discussion on Twitter

Watching BT on Saturday night made me realise how weak their Xmas is with the new deal, Liverpool/City is a strong game of course but the next best thing they could advertise during the game is their Score show on Boxing Day

I did wonder if MNF would be based at the ground tonight but David Jones posted a picture of Gary/Jamie on a train down to London last night

They promote BT Sport Score during every match...

Who wouldn't want to discuss the innovative thoughts of Garth?

Indeed the difference is noticable from last season where BT had most of the Xmas games (and from what I remember their Boxing Day coverage was dreadful).

The only thing BT Score has going for it is the frankly odd line-ups which often indicate the show that has no idea what it wants to be. I mean Soccer Saturday isn't highbrow but it's a show that knows its market and what is does and does it well.
It's a huge waste of Jenas's ability (and Pougatch's talents too) for him to be on this show so often.

Borussia Dortmund v Augsburg (Tuesday,7pm) - BT Sport 2.

Commentators: Derek Rae and Don Hutchison

Coverage was lost early in the second half and didn't come back for 10-15 mins. Of all the games for this to happen in, it was one that finished 5-3 - but fortunately only one goal was missed during the time they were experiencing problems. Could've been a lot worse! "Oh... er... yeah... welcome back... while you've been away there have been... uh... eight goals"

I've not watched Score but I don't see the market for a 3rd show of this nature. Maybe a specialist European show or a football league specialist show (which BT can't do) but another PL results show, not sure there's a need for it.

Presume it's Hawthorne tonight. Co-comm could be one of a few!

David Jones is with Danny Devito & Felicity Kendall. Simon Scharma did an interview with Ross Barkley earlier. All very interesting.

Nuremberg v Kaiserslautern - BT Sport 1.

Commentator: Dan Mason.

Athletic Bilbao v Celta Vigo - Sky Sports 2.

Commentators: Jon Driscoll and Gerry Armstrong.

Poor by Sky. With it being Mersey Monday I was expecting Paul McCartney and Paul O'Grady.

Hawthorne & Smith are comms

Its not David Schwimmer and the woman who put a cat in a wheelie bin then?

For BT Sport customers without Sky Sports (which is the shows target audience) its only the second show of its nature, and the other one aint much better.

And the whole debate was done to death, and then some, back in August.

Neville back in the "senior" position on far side of desk with Carragher in the middle.

When Neville was a “guest” on MNF at start of season he went in the middle “junior” position - like other guests do.

Analysing the analysts.

Very meta!

Patrick Davison was pitchside.

No Klopp/Neville interaction to report in the post match interview when Klopp spoke live to the studio.

An average of two million people (with a 2.3 million peak) watched last night's game, apparently.

https://twitter.com/SB_Intelligence/...58720096989185

I don't know whether that's the match average or programme average (I'm assuming the former), but what does Monday Night Football typically get?

2m will be the match average for certain – both because Sport Business report match averages and because it’s far too near the peak to be the programme average.

MNF ratings vary wildly due to quality of game – but last season’s overall programme average was 815k. I’d imagine last night’s programme average was about 1.3m.

Last night’s rating is a strong one – not many Sky games match average as high as 2m.

Adam Virgo on Twitter suggesting he is on co-comms for both Emirates FA Cup Replays this week (Peterborough v Notts County tonight and Newport County v Plymouth tomorrow) on BT Sport.

Also replied to someones tweet that it will be Jon Champion on lead comms for tomorrow night's cup replay.

He's with Steve Bower tonight

FA Cup-Peterborough v Notts County (BT Sport)
Presenter: Paul Dempsey with David James and Jack Collison
Commentators: Steve Bower and Adam Virgo
Reporter: Natalie Quirk