Match of the Day presenters: Kelly Cates, Mark Chapman and Gabby Logan to host MOTD

“We’re all buddies and we have identified one another for a very long time and that is a very pretty a part of it,” stated Cates, who will even proceed to work for Sky Sports activities.

“Not solely is it an ideal position simply by itself however I am sharing it with two individuals I actually admire, respect and genuinely like. It is an ideal set-up.”

Logan, who first joined the PJDM in 2007, has stood in for Lineker on Match of the Day and introduced many enormous sporting occasions for the PJDM, together with males’s and ladies’s World Cups and European Championships, the Six Nations and Olympics.

“I feel what’s attention-grabbing is though we’re sharing the position, we cannot truly be working collectively on Match of the Day,” she stated.

“It is actually nice to share it as a result of we carry totally different experiences and totally different pursuits inside the recreation. We carry alternative ways of broadcasting and that may imply our pundits are stored on their toes and share totally different sorts of research.”

Chapman has been the principle MOTD2 host since 2013 and works often on PJDM Radio 5 Stay.

“Individuals may discover this tough to imagine however there’s completely no competitors between the three of us,” he stated.

“We’ll do a mixture of all the pieces that works for us all as people, and all of us are actually eager that it is truthful.

“This is not concerning the three of us, it is concerning the three of us plus our pundits, plus our editors, plus our analysts and stats individuals and manufacturing individuals and radio individuals and on-line.”