[Football] MOTD - 22:30 BBC One

[ChickenBaltiPie]

The issue as many are saying is not the lack of praise…A few superlatives here and there followed immediately by ‘but’ or comments about LFC premised with ‘not to take anything away from Brighton’ etc do nothing to appease my disappointment that they cannot portray a realistic interpretation of the actual course of events effectively. My biggest gripe, I personally want and enjoy some actual analysis about us. 9/10 fair enough, we’re not top 6, I get it. Doesn’t make it right but they’re selling a product to the masses, but when a ‘team like Brighton’ spank LFC then do us justice!

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

What was Wright on about saying De Zerbi took stick in his early days here?

Basically referencing souness as an out of touch dinosaur

 

[Wardy's twin]

What was Wright on about saying De Zerbi took stick in his early days here?

Souness....

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Edited contrary to actual events, you had to be there I guess!

Not a bad thing, other fan based not knowing how good we actually are, the meltdowns online wouldn’t feature shock

 

[ChickenBaltiPie]

Soccer Sunday: Liverpool lost to Brighton yesterday. We’ll assess what went wrong after the break. FFS

 

[Icy Gull]

The beauty of being able to stream every PL game I can’t get to is that MOTD has become something of an irrelevance to me. I watch it when we win out of interest, I enjoy seeing Lineker doing his best not to say more than a sentence about us. I believe he managed a game a few years ago when he didn’t even say the word Brighton in the coverage of our game.

I so hope we give Leicester a good thrashing next week

 

[Wardy's twin]

I watched MOTD because i didn't what the after match replay in the ground. It was a very poor version of the game. If Messi or Rashford or Kane had scored that Wellbeck goal it would have been replayed many times. What it didn't show was the football not leading to goals some of which was sublime. But to be fair that's what i expect from the programme , they certainly aren't anti-Brighton its just we are not big news.

What i would have preferred them to do is spend some more time about the MUFC offside goal that stood and why e.g. Mitoma's trailing foot was ruled out. That is call out bad and in consistent refereeing. With more emphasis on name and shame.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Your last comment is key to this: Most mainstream football coverage sees the goings on at the top six (now seven) as being of interest to the majority; The performances of all other clubs as only of interest to their fans. There is some truth in the second part as all fans complain that their clubs are not given enough attention.

The underlying complaint is really that whether their teams are good, bad or indifferent, the fans of a select few clubs are much better served than all others because the accepted paradigm is that they are the story. It's this kind of skewed understanding of football fans that gave their owners the impression that they didn't need the rest of us, but could throw their lot in with their equally feted counterparts in Europe and have the rest of us enraptured. It's a myth. The rest of us care as little about their teams as they do about ours.

Had yesterday's game been the other way around, there would have been one Brighton chance in the edit and talk only of Liverpool's brilliance. They wouldn't do that to Liverpool because they view them as one of the main characters in the EPL story and the rest of us as supporting players. It's not preciousness from Brighton fans, it's weariness with the continuation of a false narrative.

Yup. It’s a pre written and edited narrative. The problem is there are a lot of teams who seem to play extremely poorly when up against BHA. Funny that. Must all be a giant co-incidence. A bit of praise for BHA at the beginning also does not cut it. This shouldn’t be happening anymore.

 

[ChickenBaltiPie]

Soccer Sunday: Liverpool lost to Brighton yesterday. We’ll assess what went wrong after the break. FFS

Take this back! Yes they’re talking about LFC non stop but the opening praise regarding us was EXACTLY what we should have got from MOTD last night. It was 30secs and they’ll now talk about LFC for 20mins BUT it was a true/accurate reflection of how good we were and that we earned the win!

 

[Klaas]

Good to see Ian Wright having another subtle dig at Souness regarding the De Zerbi appointment.

Is there something else to that? I mean, I completely agree with Wright, but it seems odd that he brought it up again. Apart from Souness I don't remember any other negative stuff about RDZ. Any bad blood between them? (Wright and Souness)

 

[Stat Brother]

Is there something else to that? I mean, I completely agree with Wright, but it seems odd that he brought it up again. Apart from Souness I don't remember any other negative stuff about RDZ. Any bad blood between them? (Wright and Souness)

Quite probably Wrighty the footballer wasn't exactly a Souness type of player.
Maybe words were said back in the day.

Although Ian has been our biggest supporter, for a very long time, and a fella who despite his outward demeanour doesn't appear to take fools lightly.

Anyhoo all the time this exists Wrightys alright by me.



Best watched while peeling an emergency onion.

 

[Dick Head]

Brighton VS Liverpool 3-0 | post match analysis

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Watched full match on Sky and then MOTD …not complaining about either….then popped off to bed and listened to the second half commentary on R5 ..no complaints

How come you missed it?

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

My main annoyance with MOTD is when they lead the conversation after the highlights with a lengthy discussion of some refereeing controversy or other, rather than actually talking about the football.
Especially when it becomes apparent that none of them actually know the rules that they're meant to be discussing.

 

[LamieRobertson]

How come you missed it?

HAHA

PS if you were being serious…i didnt!

 

[Arthritic Toe]

Indeed.

The reason the offside law was changed was to allow goals when non interfering players had no impact whatsoever on whether the goal goes in or not. This interpretation of that new law by the ref and VAR was farcical. Rashford more or less runs across the ball after the centre half had stopped to let him run into an offside position.

Embarrassing decision and honestly, those officials need relegating.

That was a bad call. I believe that theres nothing wrong with the offside rule itself - Rashford clearly made a 'fake' for the ball and as such committed an offside offense according to the rule.

 

[jimhigham]

Quite probably Wrighty the footballer wasn't exactly a Souness type of player.
Maybe words were said back in the day.

Although Ian has been our biggest supporter, for a very long time, and a fella who despite his outward demeanour doesn't appear to take fools lightly.

Anyhoo all the time this exists Wrightys alright by me.



Best watched while peeling an emergency onion.

I’d never seen that.

Bloody love Wrighty.

 

[dazzer6666]

I listened to the R5 full match commentary last night…….if you want some background noise whilst ‘working from home’ or similar it’s a great listen. Very, very complimentary throughout (Goals @ 1.05, 1.10 & 1.38 ish if you want to FF to the highlights)

5 Live Sport - Premier League Football 2022-23 - Brighton & Hove Albion v Liverpool - BBC Sounds

Live football commentary of Brighton v Liverpool in the Premier League.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[jcdenton08]

Quite probably Wrighty the footballer wasn't exactly a Souness type of player.
Maybe words were said back in the day.

Although Ian has been our biggest supporter, for a very long time, and a fella who despite his outward demeanour doesn't appear to take fools lightly.

Anyhoo all the time this exists Wrightys alright by me.



Best watched while peeling an emergency onion.

Always liked Ian Wright, he has been very complimentary of us for many years

 

[HantsSeagull]

Always liked Ian Wright, he has been very complimentary of us for many years

Which reflects well on him when you consider how badly the club treated him when he trialled for us.