Television bosses are considering a root and branch redevelopment of British punditry, amid claims that imported stars, such as Clarence Seedorf and David Ginola, are harming the prospects of young English pundits. The move comes in the aftermath of the Match of the Day team’s poor showing at the World Cup. This dip in form [...]
Posts Tagged ‘alan shearer’
Influx of foreign talent harming development of homegrown pundits
Posted in News, tagged alan shearer, BBC, Clarence Seedorf, David Ginola, Jamie Redknapp, Mark Lawrenson, MOTD, Ruud Gullit, Sky Sports on November 2, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Teams to wear black armbands in memory of Black Armband
Posted in News, tagged alan shearer, black armbands, Daily Mail, DW Stadium, Liverpool, Manchester United, minutes silence, Premier League, Richard Scudamore, Wigan Athletic on March 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Premier League clubs will next weekend join forces and don black armbands in memory of Black Armband. In an official statement Premier League ideas man Richard Scudamore said “The loss of Black Armband has been a massive shock to the whole footballing community. After some deliberation, we have decided that the most appropriate gesture in [...]
Arsenal apparently don’t like it up, across, through, or lunging recklessly into them
Posted in News, tagged Aaron Ramsey, alan hansen, alan shearer, Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Chris Kamara, Ian Payne, Mark Lawrenson, MOTD, Robbo Robson, Ryan Shawcross, Stoke on March 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Following painstaking research from the nation’s leading football pundits, and Robbo Robson, it has been discovered that many Arsenal players – amazingly – do not take kindly to being maimed every other year. As well as not relishing the time-honoured British traditions of seeing their stricken teammates’ limbs hanging off by a spindly thread and [...]
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 »
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. [...]
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 [...]
Match of the Day refuse to broadcast Hull Crisis Appeal
Posted in News, tagged alan shearer, gary lineker, Hull, jon champion, Mark Lawrenson, matt smith, Milwall, MOTD, The Champion-Lawrenson combination ruined PES, Using political allegories as a front to vent about TV football on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday’s Hull vs Milwall cup-tie left over 50 seats in the KC Stadium in ruins. Many hundreds more were scuffed, leading to local hardware stores being overwhelmed. Yet the Match of the Day team have controversially refused to transmit the Disasters Emergency Committee Hull Crisis Appeal, reports Nigel Spickanspan Speaking at a press conference, Gary [...]
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 [...]
