By Danny Baker has criticised the amount of former footballers as pundits currently on TV.
The broadcaster described football punditry as a "bogus science", and said that the type of contributors on the BBC and ITV at this year's World Cup are not reflecting the interests of fans.
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Baker - who presents a World Cup show on BT Sport - told Radio Times: "Anyone who takes football in any degree seriously and treats it like a science that we study - mainly the people who sit on sofas on mainstream television like [US Presidential monument] Mount Rushmore and pore over this stuff like Nostradamus like you can predict it, are wrong.
"It's the same old thing. Football punditry is the most bogus science. You know, we [England] are not the best team in the world, but it is very hard to say consistently who is. Football's chaos. If we played the World Cup again next week, we probably wouldn't get the same results and we might do well. You cannot predict it."
Talking about ex-footballers dominating the TV lineups, he said: "It's not really about 4-5-1s and all these terrible things journalists and ex-pros go on about. And that's the trouble with too many ex-pros doing football coverage.
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"They'd rather have someone who can barely speak English just because they're an inspirational ex-footballer than someone who can enlighten and entertain. It is an extraordinary closed club."
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However, he praised Match of the Day host Gary Lineker, describing him as "one of the best broadcasters in the world", but that he "sometimes gets saddled with people who don't match the energy of the games".
Baker added that footballers have criticised professional broadcasters who have never played the sport, responding: "They're quite willing to walk into my industry and assume they can do that."
He said: "I think having exclusively footballers punditing football matches makes as much sense as having actors review films. As far as I know, the BBC doesn't have actors reviewing films because they used to be in them, but that applies to football for some reason, you know. It makes as much sense as replacing Mark Kermode with Tim Roth."
Baker currently co-hosts Baker & Kelly Not in Rio, discussing the World Cup with celebrity and sporting guests.
