Match of the Day in major doubt as it emerges episode could be entirely SILENT because of BBC rights issue

MATCH of the Day could be scrapped tonight as the BBC reportedly have no rights to PL world feed commentary.

The football highlights programme has lost its commentators for the show as they have refused to work in support of show host Gary Lineker.

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This means that when highlights of the games are being shown that there will be no commentators describing the action, according to The Athletic.

The BBC have no rights to the commentaries supplied by Premier League Productions.

Last night Match of the Day commentators released a statement saying they would be standing down from duty this weekend in support of Lineker.

They suggested that the BBC would still be able to use the commentary from the tournaments world feed so viewers would still have some description of the games.

However, it is believed that the BBC’s contract is only for video highlights and therefore will have to supply its own commentary

It is not yet known if the BBC have requested the Premier League provide commentary, but an insider told The Times that the BBC are sorry for the “limited sport programming this weekend”.

The insider added that it was “working hard to resolve the situation and hopes to do so soon”.