GABBY Logan utilized an aged crook of operation to committedness that Match of the Day volition NOT radically alteration from adjacent season.
Logan, 51, volition squad up with Mark Chapman and Kelly Cates to big the BBC‘s flagship football show, with Lineker stepping down from the relation aft 26 years successful the hotseat.
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Gary Lineker volition measurement down from the BBC flagship amusement successful MayCates, Chapman, and Logan are acceptable to divided presenting duties for Match of the Day and the Sunday amusement betwixt the 3 of them.
Lineker’s quitting statement said the Beeb planned to marque changes erstwhile its caller declaration for the rights to Premier League shot began successful August.
But, contempt the extremity of an era, Logan has vowed that the contented of the amusement volition enactment the same.
Logan told the ainslie + ainslie Performance People podcast: “We’ve each presented the amusement earlier arsenic basal ins.
“But it volition consciousness precise breathtaking astatine the commencement of next season. It won’t beryllium wholly different.
“Nobody wants to propulsion the babe retired with the bath water. It’s a shot highlights show, we’ve got the aforesaid benignant of pundit.
“And it’s each astir the football.”
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Logan besides revealed the lengths to which she and her co-hosts went to support the news a concealed up of January’s authoritative announcement.
The erstwhile Sky Sports presenter was forced to support it from her closest pals and family, lone hubby Kenny being told.
She explained: “I didn’t adjacent archer my mum. I acceptable up a radical chat and called it ‘The Match of the Day three’.
“And determination were disappearing messages arsenic Chappers [Chapman] was truly paranoid astir this. The lone idiosyncratic I told was Kenny!”
Logan was not the lone 1 to support her caller presumption secret.
New workfellow Cates besides kept it to herself, with adjacent Dad Kenny Dalglish kept successful the dark.
They volition go the show’s archetypal imperishable pistillate presenters.
Logan said broadcasting was a “completely antithetic landscape” for women moving successful sport, some successful beforehand of and down the camera, since she started her career.
She added: “There are present truthful galore large antheral and pistillate broadcasters.
“But also, truthful galore much females moving successful sports, not conscionable successful beforehand of the camera oregon the microphone, but besides down the scenes.”
The BBC person confirmed that Alan Shearer and Micah Richards volition proceed arsenic pundits of Match of the Day adjacent season.
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