All of the pundits you have mentioned are clients of the same agency. That isn't a MOTD problem though look at Sky and it is the same thing. Listen to a pundit spout Xenophobic ill uneducated crap and then look at who their agents are.
It’s a parochial island mentality that emanates across the entire game (and endemic across the country with Brexit supporters). It’s why this country continues to put faith in stodgy, uninspiring route one tactically inept dinosaurs like Allardyce and Hodgson - who incidentally, their careers have amounted to sweet fuck all which strangely seems to pass the pundits by. Anything seen as remotely intellectual is put down. Tactical innovation is seen as weird and eccentric, and sports science is laughed upon.
It’s this ‘us v them’ mentality. A macho, alpha-male nationalistic culture of hollow bravado is being undermined by ‘soft Germans’ , ‘laptop geeks’, ‘tiki-taka’ ‘big girls blouse’ etc. It’s a threat to these dinosaurs identity, they feel like they’re being emasculated and so the reactionary bigots they are batten down the hatches and fight against the Johnny Foreigners.
At times, this is very explicit in your jobsworth failures of English football like uber-c*nts Allardyce and Pardew, yet it’s also a lot more subliminal and unconscious for so many others, particularly in the attitudes of Lineker towards Mane’s ‘dive’ yesterday (won’t give Danny Murphy the pleasure of talking about him, he just comes across as your standard Little Englander, cut from the same cloth of your ‘proper football men’ Allardyce and co). Remarkably though for Lineker, for a guy who comes across as very liberal on his twitter feed, there’s a weird hypocrisy there with regards to Kane doing it and Mane doing it. Maybe it is just sour grapes and tribalism from a guy who played for Leicester and Spurs, but it does ask questions about the unconscious bias against other nationalities.
Ultimately, such conservative mindsets sow the seeds of English footballs stagnancy and inferiority. This belief that the old ways were better and that we are a morally superior race of human beings leaves us with no room for foreign ideas. And the result of this attitude is seen in the catastrophes of colonialism, Brexit and seeps down to all forms of culture including football, where Englands arrogance and conservatism results in humiliation in international tournaments (getting beat by fucking Iceland because of that fucking tool Hodgson).
