'I'm not sure people know this' – Gary Lineker reveals Match of the Day's contractual obligation with Premier League | W993DT9 | 2024-01-26 09:08:01
Simply two Prem video games befell on Saturday as
GARY LINEKER has revealed that the BBC have a contractual agreement with the Premier League that limits the amount of recreation time that may be shown on Match of the Day.
Simply two Prem video games befell on Saturday as Arsenal hosted Crystal Palace and Brentford faced Nottingham Forest.
The weird fixture scheduling noticed BBC highlights present Match of the Day altered, which means host Alex Scott and pundits Alan Shearer and Ashley Williams had extra time to spend on evaluation.
Nevertheless, ex-Manchester Metropolis star Micah Richards joked that Shearer spoke an excessive amount of in the course of the 35-minute present.
Talking on The Rest is Football podcast, Richards stated: "Speak about overdoing it! You're talking about (Martin) Odegaard with the socks! Speak about over-analysing a state of affairs!"
Shearer responded: "We had two hours spare within the afternoon, we had to do something."
Nevertheless, Lineker then chimed in to disclose why the pundits have been pressured to spend more time on analysis.
The England icon defined that the BBC can only use a limited quantity of match footage.
He stated: "I'm unsure if individuals know this however you're solely allowed a sure period of time of every recreation.
"I feel it's restricted to something like a maximum of 12 minutes.
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"So subsequently whereas usually we might squeeze in six or eight video games and condense our chatting into two or three minutes per recreation, once you've simply obtained two video games in 35 minutes you've obtained ten minutes or so to talk.
"It's a contractual obligation – I feel it's 12 minutes but I'll verify that."
Whereas discussing Arsenal's 5-0 win over Crystal Palace in the course of the present, ex-Everton star Williams noticed a potential set-piece "set off" from Martin Odegaard which concerned the midfielder pulling up his socks.
Williams explained: "There's all the time a set off for what the motion's going to be.
"We will see they have labored on whether it's a front-post corner or a back-post nook.
"When you control Odegaard, we really feel – perhaps we've had an excessive amount of time on our arms – however we really feel that perhaps he's signalling one thing to the corner taker.
"He's in the identical place for every corner and he's enjoying together with his socks.& &
"There's synchronicity regarded whether or not they go to the front or the back. Every clip we see here he's doing the identical thing the place he's enjoying together with his socks. It may be coincidence, yes.
"But it is a huge coincidence that he's all the time there and all the time doing something together with his sock."
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