Arsenal’s relegation on Match of the Day

[QuartzGooner]

Arsenal’s relegation on Match of the Day
One viewer is switching off after the demotion to the final game last Saturday

By Richard Buxcey

14 January 2009

http://www.onlinegooner.com/exclusive/index.php?id=959

Sometimes you gotta take da ruff with da shmoov...and sometimes you are the featured game, others you are in last slot with no team line up graphics.

Do the channels show bias to us compared to other teams?

Do any pundits have it in for us?

[Freddie71]

Does anyone still watch MOTD? I gave up years ago.

[SiRose]

MOTD want to tell a narrative of the day's games, in order to keep viewers with the show, now that there are so many channels and they're competing with Football First.

You can always tell what kind of result Arsenal have got by how high up the running order we are. If we've played a team we should beat and are up first, you know we have lost. If you don't see us for dust after the first few games, you know we didn't oblige with a shock defeat and will be on safely later with a 'drab' win.

As for Gary Lineker being odd, well he is a very busy man right now. 'The white Barry Obama' is being sworn in soon! Maybe 'the black Gary Lineker' will come over and present MOTD? I'm sure he can.

[donaldo]

Arsenal-Bolton highlights? other than the goal was there any?

[proudtosaythatname]

It's significant to me as I usually fall asleep after the first boring discussion, so would almost certainly fail to see us if we were on last. However, both Portsmouth and Bolton games had very few of what one might call 'highlights'.

If a game is really worth seeing I will usually catch it on 'Football First' on Sky Sports 1 or failing that there are limited highlights on 'Goals on Sunday' - also SS1 where the chat is much better. They even have ex-Gunners like Keown, Raymondo and Smudger, so certainly not anti-Arsenal.

[Exiled-Gooner]

Get yourselfs Setanta sports and watch it on ARSENAL TV.You get Robbo given a good commentary and it's ,really,unbaised even though he's a x-gooner.I've been to the game then to piss the missus off i watch it next day and still shout at the ref

[Bring Back Pires]

The entire concept of the article is utterly absurd. Even as a Gooner myself, I'm not blind enough to not recognise that from around 1998 up until - well, apparently now - we've been at the top of the show (or thereabouts).

Fans of those non-big four teams will be more than happy to tell you about this, and I can see their point. The likes of BBC and ITV have favoured the top four during the past decade, as they have the best matches, and thereby guarantee strong ratings.

So for Arsenal to be featured last - which is exactly what their pathetic match versus Bolton deserved - and for you to throw your toys out of the pram, is crazy. It's one week, so get over it.

[proudtosaythatname]

The entire concept of the article is utterly absurd

Not 'entire concept' - MOTD is a pretty poor apology now - even for a highlights programme.

That apart, we're all entitled to our opinion I guess.

[Basil is a Gooner]

The best bit of MOTD is the music (and Cesc in the credits ).

[Basil is a Gooner]

We were last AGAIN yesterday - and I fell asleep just as it started.....

[avenellgooner]

thats what happens with no highlights to show.it nly takes a minute

[QuartzGooner]

This new editorial by Gooner.Ed continues the theme.


No (Match of the Day) Analysis Required
Online Ed: Relegated to below Middlesbrough v Blackburn on Saturday evening, Arsenal have taken a break from the entertainment business

Gooner.Ed

1 February 2009

http://www.onlinegooner.com/editorial/index.php?id=149

[projoe]

theyre now showing middlesbrough v pompey before our game in which we won 4-0. its getting beyond a joke now