The excitement was palpable around television centre this morning, as excited BBC fans welcomed back legendary pundit Alan Shearer in advance of this afternoon’s televised game between West Bromwich Albion vs Newcastle United. In advance of his triumphant return to sitting on a sofa, FistedAway spoke to the fans in a not-at-all ghoulish, exploiting-the-mentally-ill fashion. [...]
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Passionate BBC Fans welcome back ‘Messiah’ to MOTD couch
Posted in WASKAF, tagged alan shearer, BBC, Championship, Graeme Le Saux, Messiah, Newcastle United, Peter Schmeichel, Ray Stubbs, West Bromwich Albion on August 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
What Alan Shearer Knows about…breaks
Posted in WASKAF, tagged alan hansen, alan shearer, Any excuse to mock the band Jet, Colin Hendry, Fernando Torres, Liverpool, MOTD, Newcastle, Ronaldo, Sami Hyppia, Steven Gerrard on March 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Like the resplendent Alan above*, I have been taking a break from the WASKAF posts. I’d love to pretend that this was because my Saturday nights have all been spent larging it in Faces with second-string England players, but in reality it has been post-traumatic stress. After about four WASKAFs, I realised that I could [...]
What Alan Shearer Knows…
Posted in WASKAF, tagged alan shearer, Football Focus, kieran richardson, Micah Ricahrds, MOTD, WASKAF on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Back from international week, Alan was refreshed, restored, and radiating the matchless confidence of a man who knows he will never lose his cushy job of sitting legs akimbo on an angular sofa and talking for up to 4 minutes at a time. It’s very easy to mock the intelligence of footballers- some would say [...]
“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem” – Woody Allen
Posted in WASKAF, tagged alan hansen, alan shearer, Blackburn, Newcastle, Samba, Unexpected Boyz n the Hood reference, Who will be the one true Alan? on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A troublesome showing from wor Alan this week. After a stellar season debut last week, he now seems distant, petulant and uncomfortable; it was like watching a man who was completely unsuited to media work, rather than the man who we know and love who is triumphantly unaware that he is completely unsuited to media [...]
What Alan Shearer Knows
Posted in WASKAF, tagged alan shearer, Geeks, Jessies, Kevin Davies, Mark Lawrenson, Violence on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yes…he’s back. Looking resplendent in a lilac shirt with a white collar that delightfully off-set the strange fudgy hue of his skin, wor Alan has clearly enjoyed his time away from the bearpit of Match of the Day punditry. However, in spite of the break he was match fit and on top form for his [...]
