When choosing the new Match of the Day host, the BBC needs to look carefully at Football Focus and do EXACTLY the opposite

SOME advice for the BBC team choosing the new Match Of The Day presenter and his team.

Take a look at Football Focus and do the exact opposite.

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I promise them that if they go in the opposite direction, the show won’t go far wrong.

Because, on the face of it, both shows should accomplish the same basic task.

They show some football highlights, then the host launches into tactical analysis and light banter with two knowledgeable ex-pros.

It’s almost impossible to get it wrong, and yet that is precisely what the BBC has achieved by allowing Football Focus to be captured by host Alex Scott and the cult of woke.

To the point that football is no longer even the central theme of the show.

Despite the title, this is now an exercise in political propaganda that would much rather tell you about Black History Month, a trans referee, or Russell Martin’s veganism than look forward to the matches from the weekend and look back at the goals from the previous week.

Last Saturday, for example, the Chelsea v Arsenal preview was left to an obscure afro-beat jazz group called Ezra Collective and there were updates from the England women’s amputee team and the performance of England’s visually impaired futsal team at the European Championships, but not a word about the Scottish League Cup semi-finals.

And lest you think these are just the fringe criticisms of a bitter tartan army obsessive, that’s not the case.

Well, not entirely, because Alex and his woke agenda crushed everything in their path, including the gaming giants and even ignored the 30th anniversary of Bobby Moore’s death last year, because they were too busy covering the Football Against Homophobia awards and updating viewers on the mental health issues of a random French footballer, Wendie Renard.

Alex Scott, who rarely gets off his high horse, of course considers that his divine mission is to re-educate the herd and often punctuates his speeches with the phrase: “Football is for everyone”.

She doesn’t think so, obviously.

Watch Football Focus with its new generation of boring young female pundits who have all swallowed the coaching manual, and overworked journalists like Love Island’s Jordan Mainoo-Hames, and you’ll quickly realize that as a person of age AVERAGE. dude, you’re the last person the BBC wants to watch the show

We took the hint too and Football Focus’s viewing figures rose from 849,000 in 2019 to 564,000 in 2023.

Alex Scott’s exaggerated “go wake up, go broke” reaction to this disaster is perhaps telling.

Rather than realizing that the viewers are right and changing the show accordingly, she threatened to leave Football Focus and move to the United States due to a lack of support from management.

The BBC should use his threat as a guide during its MOTD recruitment process and as an opportunity to pull its sports content back from the brink of total destruction.

If Mark Chapman and Gabby Logan both want to replace Gary Lineker, choose the better candidate.

And if Alex Scott threatens to quit and go to America if she doesn’t make it, drive her to the airport.