Die Another (Match of the) Day

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An open letter to the new Director General of the BBC by Mr Daniel Forman.

Dear George,

Congratulations on your appointment and hope you've enjoyed your first few weeks in the job. You don't strike me as much of a football fan and you don't seem to have had much to do with sport in your long career at the BBC but I hope I'm wrong about that as I have something quite important to tell you: Match of the Day is about to die.

Get Jimbo On The BBC

As responsible human beings, it is our obligation to back James Richardson as Adrian Chiles' replacement on Match of the Day 2. As if it wasn't bad enough that the BBC preferred Chiles to Jimbo in the first place, now that he's flounced off to ITV, they're in real danger of making the same mistake again. Remember Football Italia? Listen to the Guardian's podcast? Feel sorry for former Setanta employees? Enough said.

Jimbo is class. And most importantly, he's not Colin Murray. OR TIM LOVEJOY.

AC Jimbo. Change we can believe in.

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