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Legendary broadcaster Barry Davies was `surprised ” by BBC’s decision to replace Gary Lineker as a match of the day with three presenters.
Mail Sport previously revealed that Kelly Cates would share the accommodation responsibilities of the Premier League weekend reflections show and her Champions League package in the middle of the week alongside Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman next season.
The news follows confirmation that the current main host of the Saturday evening program, Lineker, will be held down the role at the end of the quarter after 26 years in the role.
Davies, who worked on the program from 1969 to 2004 before being recalled for a special concert in 2014, admitted his shock to the decision.
The 87-year-old commentary, which has become the first in his profession to be inducted at the National Football Museum renowned temple this month, questioned the wisdom to replace Lineker with three presenters.
“I am surprised at the decision that has been made,” he told Sun. “But I am very surprised at the jobs that are given to various people these days, and the need to apparently use people.
The legendary broadcaster Barry Davies was “surprised” by the BBC’s decision to replace Gary Lineker as a match of the match of the day with three presenters.
Kelly Cates, March Chapman and Gabby Logan will share accommodation for next season
Gary Lineker will resign as a host of the BBC flagship show after 26 years at the end of the season
“These are very good radibers, but I am surprised that they think it is better than three people do it.
“Gary himself would feel that he has done long enough. They are all very good broadcasters, and they know the games, without a doubt on this subject.
This week, Logan assured the match of the match of the day that the program “will not be completely different” when it succeeds Gary Lineker as part of the new team of presentation of three people from the show.
“No one wants to throw the baby with the bath water. This is a show of strong highlights of football, we have the same kind of experts … And it’s all about football, ” said the presenter to the Podcast Ainslie + Ainslie Performance People.
Logan, whose appointment was announced by the BBC in January, revealed that she and her co-host colleagues have spread to keep the news before their unveiling.
The trio has created a secret Whatsapp group to discuss everything related to the day and hit a closer link before the big revelation – and even deleted messages to ensure that the news has remained between them.
“I did not even say to my mother,” added Logan, having said that her husband and the former Scottish rugby star Kenny.
“I set up a group cat and called it” the match of the third day “and there were missing messages because the chappers were really paranoid on this subject.
Logan, who works as an expert for several networks, applauded the fact that broadcasting is a “completely different landscape” for women, both in front and behind the camera
The only person I said was Kenny!
It is understood that the leaders of the BBC, led by the new director of sport Alex Kay-Jelski, are impatient to move the show in a new direction with the appointment of Logan, Chapman and Cates.
Having a rotary cast and two women presenters in a day match is a huge change for the show after more than a quarter of a century with Lineker in the Hotseat.
Logan applauded the fact that broadcasting is a “completely different landscape” for women working in sport, both in front and behind the camera.
