Firstly Alan Shearer was a world class striker and his turd posseses more loyalty than most players have in their souls these days,however as a pundit hes just weird. Its like hes reading from a book of football punditry or something! is it just me ? Its like oh this is how punditry is done so ill mimic it to the T . I sometimes wonder if hes taking the piss its so cringeworthy. Seriously alan just relax, squeeeze, force the **** out and be yourself.
I used to call him 'Count Von Count' because he'd spend all his punditry time telling you how many defenders he could see on the screen. Has got noticeably less wooden over the years mind.
I quite like the bloke. When I think that I had to watch Mark Lawrenson spout ****e for 10+ years on MOTD before Shearer I am grateful to listen to Big Al. He's honest and has more of a sense of humour than some give him credit for, plus I love his Twitter put downs.
I like Shearer as a pundit, when he started he was duller than dishwater, but now he's got his own style and he's genuinely interesting and insightful.....I'd rather listen to him than waster Jenas, or whoever the BBC get in as a "guest pundit" (Fabregas in this case). Murphy and Shearer are my favourite pundits, thank god Lawro and Hansen aren't around anymore.
Aye I think Wright helps Shearer relax cause he’s a ****ing nutcase. I like Rio mind. He comes out with some absolute belters. I liked that one the other night about Kane when he said he was surprised the defender didn’t pin him for the count of 3. He came across like a knob when he was playing but he seems sound. Had a lot of respect the way he dealt with that situation with missus too. He seems very relaxed in front of the camera. The winning goal celebration was like a step through time in passion though. Lineker was out of his seat screaming, Shearer give the double punch, but Frank and Rio didn’t really show that much.
I've always thought that big Al is quite a good pundit. It's a cushy job mind. That BBC lot must think they're in heaven. Was funny watching an ITV game the other day - they had Eni Aluko ex-captain of England ladies team on. She knew her stuff and left the two guys - particularly Patrice Evra looking like thick as mince knobs.