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PUNDITS Pundits featured on the show to make (often) insightful comments about the games they have just seen, have included Alan Hansen , Trevor Brooking , Gary Lineker , Mark Lawrenson , Peter Schmeichel , Ian Wright and Jimmy Hill . Hill and Lineker have both presented and appeared as a pundit on the show. ''MATCH OF THE DAY LIVE'' The BBC's live football matches almost always come under the title ''Match of the Day Live'' which has been the case since 1997 after Sportsnight was cancelled. Currently, these include FA Cup ties and replays, the FA Women's Cup final, all of England's home games and some away matches ( Sky Sports tend to obtain the rights to a large proportion of England's away games). The BBC shares live coverage of the World Cup finals and European Championship finals with ITV Sport . BBC Scotland's live football forms part of its ''Sportscene'' programme. Northern Ireland 's home games are shown on BBC NI, with selected fixtures shown on BBC throughout the United Kingdom . BBC Wales does not currently have rights to Wales ' home internationals, but does show live matches from the FAW Premier Cup under the banner ''Match Of The Day Wales''. There is also Match of the day 2 that is shown on Sundays. THEME MUSIC The show's famous theme tune is called "Match Of The Day" and was written especially for the programme in 1968 by Barry Stoller. It is often incorrectly credited with the title "Offside", which was actually the name of the group of session musicians that played on the commercially released version in 1970 (it being credited to "Offside conducted by Mike Vickers"). When the programme began in 1964 it used a different theme, a piece called 'Drum Majorette' by Arnold Steck. TRIVIA
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