May have missed this earlier in thread but did they repeat Shearer's statements about John Stones this morning? Seriously hope we were straight on the phone to them last night and an official complaint has been made. That was so far off their remit. Shearer has gone from being pointless as a pundit to sounding warped. It is difficult not to sound paranoid about editorial bias from the relatively trivial scheduling of matches (would any other team have been on first ahead of Chelsea and Man U because they won 4 2), to last nights 'tapping up'. I know people have to be careful what they imply but Shearer's statement went unchallenged and was so weighted towards a situatiion they have been told isn't happening. I think there is more behind it than an opinion. Why did Lineker even ask that question on a programme that is known for not rocking the boat? As people have pointed out there is no precedent for this with other players, many of whom have implied a desire to go.
Don't want to start conspiracies but a general bias towards the bigger clubs doesn't cut it for me. The tone of Shearer's comments last night were too extreme, (John Terry a better role model than Jags???) and there is too many ways for ex-players and journos to make money from the game without us knowing, too many betshop owners going onto the likes of talksport talking as though they are pundits. Not much you can prove but why is it not out there...Shearer is terrible at his job anyway..predictable, smug, lacking in insight...so why are we putting up with him making a statement that goes againt the rules of the game??
