The BBC has announced that Match of the Day will return to football fans’ screens this weekend with a special debate format - and Leeds United fans have reason to tune in.
The Premier League confirmed on Thursday that all fixtures will remain suspended until April 30 due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Last Saturday the broadcaster replaced Match of the Day with Mrs Brown’s Boys, a decision which was met with widespread anger on social media as fans called on the BBC to show another football related show instead
And now it appears that those wishes have been granted, with the broadcaster confirming on Friday morning that Match of the Day:Top 10 will fill the 10.20pm slot.
Having launched on Wednesday, the new Match of the Day:Top 10 podcast on BBC Sounds will make its television debut on Saturday night with regular host Gary Lineker joined by Alan Shearer and Ian Wright.
The program will see the trio debate the greatest captains of the Premier League era and is the first in a new series of special features.
Football Focus will also broadcast this weekend with host Dan Walker taking a look back at some of the best interviews and features from shows so far this season.
While the BBC will also broadcast two classic FA Cup quarter-finals over the weekend, those being Watford v Arsenal from 1987 and West Bromwich Albion v Nottingham Forest from 1978.
But when it comes to the greatest captains debate, Leeds United fans will be hoping to see some of their best-ever skippers in the running.
A host of superb players have put on the armband for the Whites, starting with Gary McAllister in the first game of Leeds' maiden Premier League season in 1992.
Gordon Strachan David Batty and the late Gary Speed, who joined McAllister in the 1991-92 title-winning midfield all skippered the side and the likes of Nigel Martyn, Gary Kelly, Lucas Radebe and Dominc Matteo also followed in their footsteps.
The final player to captain the Whites in the Premier League was local lad Alan Smith, who was given the nod in the club's final top flight game, a 3-3 draw with Charlton at Elland Road, which saw him given a heroes farewell, only for him to join bitter rivals Manchester United later that summer.
Every player to captain Leeds United in the Premier League
Gary McAllister, Gordon Strachan, David Batty, Carlton Palmer, Gary Speed, Ian Rush, David Wetherall, David Hopkin, Nigel Martyn, Gary Kelly, Lucas Radebe, Rio Ferdinand, Olivier Dacourt, Dominic Matteo, Danny Mills, Alan Smith
