Originally Posted by mikw:
“Great question for Jacqui Oatley to Aresene Wenger on MOTD last night.
"The sending off happened in front of the dug out, i take it you must have seen that one!"
Arsene Smiled to give him credit.”
I notice they missed out a question she's mentioned on Twitter she did to Theo Walcott asking him about playing for England which got short shrift.
On BT, let's be honest here Palace v W Ham was never going to bring out the big guns whatever channel it's on so I'm not going to go in too hard on a line-up on a match like that. If it were MU/Arsenal instead it'd be a different story. Also I didn't watch the BT coverage so can't really comment on it.
The only bit I saw was them presenting pitchside pre-match while it looked like the end of days was happening behind. I have no idea why they didn't use a studio pre-match. There surely must be a reason.
BT is real mish-mash of a channel though at times - Score is a perfect example. You have the likes of Jenas and Pougatch co-existing with the likes of David James, Chris Sutton, 'Arry etc and the whole show just feels very messy.
Pougatch's presence there is still a mystery - he seems to have stopped doing PLP Monday Night games and the prestigeous 5 Live Saturday gig for a second-rate scores show that can't be doing well with viewing figures at all. At least he's still got the ITV Football gig.
And I would say with Ian Wright, he works far better when there's another pundit who can do most of the analysis and Wright can bring some energy, views and entertainment. That's partly why Dixon and Wright work so well on ITV. The issue comes with a line-up like yesterday when 'Arry is alongside him.