Its Sort Of Like Match Of The Day with a "2" added to it. (Match of the Day 2)

Member Name: eyedo6789

Product:	Match of the Day 2
Date:	08/03/09 (62 review reads)
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Advantages: It shows a lot of football.

Disadvantages: Usually you already know all of the results.

Match Of The Day 2 is a BBC television programme usually shown each Sunday after 9.30 p.m. during the British Professional Football season.

It shows recorded highlights of Premier League matches played that week end with studio analysis from two pundits who sit on a couch opposite the host who is Adrian Chiles.

Alan Shearer, Alan Hansen and Lee Dixon are regular pundits but you will intermittently also see Mark Bright, Alan Curbishley, Les Ferdinand, Alex McLeish and others appear on the pundits' couch.

As an added feature, towards the end of each programme they have a thing called "Too Good, Too Bad" which is basically a set of clips from that week end's matches showing some great pieces of footballing skill or memorable good things done by someone in the dug out or in the crowd then followed by a bad piece of footballing skill or an embarrassing or silly thing done by someone either at pitch level or in the crowd.

They also often have a feature where a "roving reporter" such as Kevin Day spends a day with some die hard fans following their favourite Premiership team. This feature nearly always has to be about something like a man who has been going to all of his team's away matches for the last 63 years without ever missing one but is in fact now dead, but his brain has been kept alive and preserved in a jar. As well as this he emigrated to a small island in The Pacific Ocean in 1974 so ever since then he sets out on a Wednesday to watch Saturday's match and travels using a combination of a Coracle, Hitch Hiking, A Pogo Stick and an original Tiger Moth which he has been lovingly restoring since 1988 and is decked out in the colours of his favourite team.

This is basically what distinguishes Match Of The Day 2 from plain old Match Of The Day.

Until recently Adrian Chile's closing line of the programme was good night (bye) and try to have a bearable week. He has now stopped saying this as it may have been pointed out to him that reminding some people that the following morning they would be waking up at 6.30 a.m. to go and pluck chickens for 8 hours on the minimum wage may not have been such a good idea!

In summary this is a standard production BBC highlights package programme so interesting to watch for followers of football.

Summary: Its a good programme and a bit of a national institution.