It’s Saturday night and its 10: 30pm. You know all the scores, who scored them and when they scored them but it has become a part of one’s lifestyle as a young football supporter. You simply must watch Match of the Day.

The coverage of the games is perfect. Great replays, great audio from the fans and exciting commentary. What upsets me is the quality of the punditry. If it was to be described in one word it would have to be – BORING! The three culprits are Alan Hansen, Mark Lawrenson and Alan Shearer. All brilliant players, which makes it all the more amazing that not one of them has anything remotely interesting to say. It seems to me that they are given are a reel of footage and start to list the clichés. “ You can’t do that in your own half, you can’t allow that much time on the ball, he must be finishing from there” to name a few.

As experts on the beautiful game, which is what they are, they should be able to produce more insightful analysis than something that every football fan knows and takes for granted. I wonder if the ‘footballers are stupid’ stereotype is showing its true colours. The most articulate one of them all is Gary Lineker. However he is bench marked to a presenter role, which he does do brilliantly. I believe that Lineker, one of the most prolific English strikers of all time let’s not forget, should be getting more involved. Especially when he has to sit there and listen to Hansen and Lawrenson, two centre halves, tell him about goalscoring.

What most infuriates me about Match of the Day punditry is that you could have a higher quality, more passionate conversation about football over a pint with your mates. True football fans evoke the deepest emotions when they have a discussion and none of this is evident with the BBC pundits. Perhaps the problem is that they are not television broadcasters, they are simply footballers.