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Match of the Day without Gary Lineker was oddly soothing

12 March 2023

8:31 PM

12 March 2023

8:31 PM

Well, did you enjoy MOTD? Did you miss Gary?

Thanks to, let’s just say ‘circumstances’, we were able to take part in a unique television experiment last night. For the first time in its 60-year history MOTD consisted of all action and no talk. No presenters, no expert comment, no fancy graphic preview packages, no post-match interviews, not even the title sequence and iconic theme tune.

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