No, it's not another confused attempt at presenting by John Barnes, in case you've not been tempted back to terrestrial's other channel since the shock of seeing a once great footballer flailing about on camera for the umpteenth time.

It's safe to return now because Barnes has been shipped off to a place as far away from an autocue as possible - which turns out to be Bucharest, in fact - and his replacement is good. Damn good.

I must admit, when I first saw Colin Murray, of BBC Radio One's Colin and Edith fame, had taken over Five's football coverage in February, I moaned all the way through the programme.

I'd always thought of him as the annoying one from Northern Ireland and maybe he still is, but he doesn't half liven up football coverage.

His style is rather unconventional - I don't think the straight-laced BBC or ITV will be ousting Gary Lineker or Gabby Logan just yet - but it's a laugh a minute.

It's 'Chelski' instead of Chelsea and he even got away with referring to Fabien Barthez as 'Uncle Fester'.

Now he's bound to upset some people with his humour eventually but I applaud Five for having the guts to appoint someone who offers a different angle to the game.

Sometimes football on television gets to saturation point and this is the only way to shake things up.

The BBC must also be commended for giving Adrian Chiles, previously the most entertaining presenter of Radio Five Live's Six-O-Six since Danny Baker, the keys to Match of the Day 2.

In contrast, ITV have appointed Mr Predictable to front their Formula One coverage.

There's slick and there's too slick, and there's just something that bugs me about Steve Rider. I could just about put up with Rider on the golf, which seemed more suited to his sedate approach, but each question he asks sounds too much like a GCSE coursework question to me, it's assess this and contrast that.

We all ask daft questions at times though, I'm not immune and neither was the guy that asked Burnley boss Steve Cotterill whether he would appeal to the FA after a penalty was given against his team in a game last year.

What did the reporter expect the FA would do? Rescind the penalty?

As far as questions go, the best in the business, besides Soccer AM's Tubes of course, is Sky's Geoff Shreeves with Richard Keys not far behind.

But even they wouldn't be able to drag a coherent sentence out of 10 grand.

* Alan Sugar may have received acclaim from the masses after starring in The Apprentice but there's only one thing I'll ever remember him for.

Mr Sugar, football fans may recall, was the man who, during his controversial time as Tottenham's chairman, claimed on live television that he would not even wash his car with J�rgen Klinsmann's shirt after the striker decided to leave the club. Sugar brought the German back to White Hart Lane two years later.

The most belligerent man we'll ever meet? You're having a laugh, Sir Alan.