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Ian Wright quits the BBC coverage.

 

http://msn.football365.com/story/0,17033,8...3435030,00.html

 

WRIGHTY QUITS THE BBC

 

Reason to be cheerful: Ian Wright has quit the BBC's coverage of England games because he no longer wants to be the "court jester".

 

 

Wright - who obviously wants to be taken more seriously in his role as presenter of Sky's Gladiators - has hit out at the "formal" coverage of England games favoured by the BBC.

 

 

"Times are changing. I don't know how long young people are going to want to sit down and watch that same old 'jacket, shirt and tie' format," said Wright.

 

 

"Fans want people who are dressed like them.

 

 

"They've got no one to relate to on TV and that's why I've said to them I don't want to do the England games any more.

 

 

"I feel like I'm just there as a comedy jester to break the ice with Alan Shearer and Alan Hansen who just do run-of-the-mill things. I can't do that anymore. People want something different."

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