Talk:Match of the Day

message: The whole history section has been copied from a BBC article, and has been moved here Match of the Day/History. ed g2s • talk 05:58, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I wrote/re-wrote much of this section not long before it was deleted and I can assure you nothing I wrote was copyrightten, I referred to a book about the show, which I will add as a reference in the near future, nothing was 'copied' directly however. I can see that some of what was there was copied from that page but not the bit I wrote. I've just reverted it back into the article (not seeing what you wrote at the top because there was no heading), I'll remove it again but it should be re-written rather than deleted, I spent a while writing the 80s/90s stuff and it's a shame to see it wiped because someone else violated copyright. Jimbow25 19:54, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright violation

message: I'm trying to compile a list of all of the MotD Goals Of The Season (possibly with a view to creating an article, if I can find enough information on each); can anyone help out? I've identified 94-95 (Matt Le Tissier v Blackburn), 96-97 (Trevor Sinclair's bicycle kick against Barnsley), 98-99 (that Ryan Giggs goal), 99-00 (Paulo Di Canio's scissor kick against Wimbledon), 01-02 (Dennis Bergkamp turning Newcastle inside out) and 04-05 (Wayne Rooney's thundering volley against Middlesbrough). Kinitawowi 14:19, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Stuff it, I've started one anyway. (Got a couple more goals too, thanks to some thorough use of the Google and Youtube, of all things...) Kinitawowi 22:16, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goal Of The Season 

message: I was surprised to see that the music was specially composed for Match of the Day (and, having checked, all sources seem to agree on this). I had always thought the music was an adaptation of Robin Hall and Jimmie McGregor's song "Football Crazy". Am I alone in seeing the similarity between these tunes? Bluewave 21:41, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Theme tune

message: Does anybody have a full list of the backing music used in the shows when introducing the highlights from each match?  The few that I know are:
*1992-199? "The Life of Riley" by The Lightning Seeds
*199?-199? "Step Into My World" by Hurricane #1
*200?-200? "Half Life" by Athlete
MRW77 (talk) 04:55, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Other Music

message: As a child in the 70s, I have hazy memories of Scottish fixtures being shown on rare occasions when I was allowed to stay up to watch. Am I wrong? And before you ask, I lived in London. Dweller 11:45, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scottish league matches 

message: This article is very poorly written, for several reasons:
* It is far too long. The average reader does not need to read a blow-by-blow account of every single season; I stopped reading after  mention of how many Third Division matches would be shown in 1967-68 - this is just trivial and best saved for books on the subject.
* Details of individual matches are not needed, especially the tedious recounting of the time a match was snowed off (oh, shock horror!). Truly exceptional matches (biggest scorelines etc.) could perhaps be included in a list of records in a separate section.
* Similarly, rather than say, e.g. "Jimmy Hill started/stopped being a pundit this season in the main text", the show's presenters/pundits/commentators should be in a table in a separate section, with their tenures alongside; this would be a much more effective way of communicating the same information.
* The tone is full of POV and unencylopedic prose. Examples:
** ...the whole 90 minutes was shown. Pity it ended 0-0.
** In one of the greatest ever FA Cup ties of all time...
** There was little sympathy for ITV. The main news was that a regular Match of the Day was back.
* There is a lot of text about ITV, BSB, various deals and negotiations - these are not relevant to the programme of MoTD and should addressed in a different article such as English football on television.
* There are lots of spelling mistakes, and the prose is generally clunky; far too many incorrect uses of the word "would" 
* Oh, and the article needs lots more references, properly formatted.
A rewrite is definitely needed. Would anyone else agree? Qwghlm 16:01, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Anything other than an analysis of each and every one of the forty-two seasons so far; this is a sports highlights programme, not an American TV drama. Next to none of the content is encyclopaedic. The season-by-season info mostly pertains to football as a whole, rather than strictly its impact on MoTD; either way it shouldn't be there. Kinitawowi 20:02, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have made a stab at a rewrite - see User:Qwghlm/MoTD. Comments welcome (but please do not edit the subpage as I intend to delete it). Qwghlm 14:41, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just taken a look at your rewrite, and it looks good. Robotforaday 01:30, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Proposed article is far better IMO.  Also not sure there's a need for a separate article on [Match of the Day2|MOTD 2]].  If the main article dels with both live games and highlights, I think the MOTD 2 stream should be included in the main article Dodge 02:37, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your positive feedback; I've now updated the article to include the rewrite. Qwghlm 12:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup needed

message: Would it be worth noting in the trivia section that Gary Lineker's last words on MOTD before Premiership highlights passed over to ITV was "see you after the break" I always remember that, for some reason. HornetMike 18:52, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: See you after the break

message: Would it be a good idea to add some information about the boycott of MotD by various managers due to arguments with the BBC etc.  I think that it's Ferguson, Allardyce and Redknapp who don't give interviews.Nev 16:43, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Managers' boycott 

message: Just some basic cleanup and improvement things needed here which would improve the article incredibly:
*Combine information into one history section, separated by sub-headings if necessary.
*Make sure the contents of sections do not overlap
*Ensure that the article remains relevant with the passage of time.
*Add a sample of the famous theme music?
Regards. Rafmarham (talk) 18:35, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 2012 

message: Substituted at 23:25, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: I have the sense that it's a recap of recent football, but I'm not sure of the details, and this article doesn't help. A sentence in the lede to flesh out "highlights and analysis" would get useful, and a Format section may be warranted. See Match of the Day 2#Format. Some questions that a reader might want to know: does it cover only that day's games, or are Friday/mid-week fixtures included? Is it Premier League (or historically, top-flight-English) only, or does it include Champions League, EFL, Scotland, etc.? Does it run during international competitions? The name sounds like it's about a single game (as in "soup of the day"), and it sounds like that's how it started; does it still feature one or a few games in greater detail than the others, or is it a general broad sweep? I and other ignorant readers would be interested to know these things :) SSSheridan (talk) 09:55, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence or section needed: what is the actual content and format of the show? 

message: The original theme tune, entitled "Drum Majorette", was written by Major Oleen Wrigley, the band leader of the Jade Petherick under the pen-name 'Arnold Stock'.
Much as I detest football, is this vandalism ?  Two unlikely names with no links, both unsourced, with the alleged source (10: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/match_of_the_day/3135723.stm) only mentioning Major Arnold Stock.
Oleen is a girl's name, where was she a major ?  in the Salvation Army ?  What is 'the'  Jade Petherick ( note the article ): A band ? A steamship ?  A tin-mine ?
All somewhat odd... Claverhouse (talk) 21:16, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The reference to Major Oleen Wrigley seems to originate here, and, as far as I can see, has no validity. It also contradicts the Wikipedia article about Major Leslie Statham (aka Arnold Steck) - note that it's "Steck" not "Stock" - that typo was copied from a BBC website, but all other sources (including other BBC websites) have the correct verison "Steck".  Producer Al (talk) 19:16, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: PS - I have corrected the entry, and it now matches the Wikipedia article about the composer. Producer Al (talk) 19:26, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theme Music 

message: Was it called Match of the Day or Premier League Highlights? I have heard the phrase "Match of the Day" was not in yesterdays opening title sequence.(Fran Bosh (talk) 17:02, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  11th March, 2023 edition