Farewell John 'oh i say' Motson.

[Leekbrookgull]

Footy on the Beeb will never been quite the same. Mine you have tended to listern to 5live with pictures from the BBC.

 

[RM-Taylor]

About time he left, although they best not replace him with Jonathan Pearce, who is arguably worse.

 

[Simon Morgan]

Thank f*** for that. 'OOOOOH! THAT'S ANOTHER ONE FOR THE DUBIOUS GOALS PANEL!' Yeah, what about the dubious commentators panel, 'Motty'? Twat.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Don't celebrate too much, he'll still be on MOTD

 

[Everest]

Don't celebrate too much, he'll still be on MOTD

Commentating or taking over from Lawrenson? Hopefully the latter.

 

[Beach Hut]

Motty is bloody excellent, better than any others currently on TV by a country mile

 

[Giraffe]

Motty is bloody excellent, better than any others currently on TV by a country mile

Agreed.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Yeah,you lot will miss him when hes gone.

 

[Tooting Gull]

It's his wife I feel sorry for. The breakfast conversations were bad enough - now it's all day, every day.

 

[hart's shirt]

Motty is bloody excellent, better than any others currently on TV by a country mile

Yes, he's never failed to do his research before the game on players.

And seeing as we didn't quite make it to Euro 2008, here's some Motty memories from 2001.

YouTube - Germany 1-5 England

 

[Hunting 784561]

He is far too stat. orientated for my own taste.

I dont need to know that that was the last goal from a Bulgarian catholic centre-back since April 1954.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

How anyone can enjoy his constant mis-prounounciation (even when he does prounounce someone correctly, he's usually referring to the wrong player altogether), shocking sense of "humour", his banter with Lawrenson, and THAT laugh is completely beyond me.

 

[Zesh Rehman]

BBC need to sack the whole line up, its shit and boring

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Hopefully Steve Wilson will get more games - by far the best TV commentator that the BBC have.

 

[Icy Gull]

Much as I don't like to admit it I think Lawrenson is a pretty good commentator.