We’d so nearly gone off him completely, then this…

It’s hard to enjoy listening to Alan Shearer, everything his says is just so… obvious. Or so we thought. That was before we stumbled across him awkwardly working his way through All Night Long by Lionel Ritchie, complete with a totally unnecessary mid-Atlantic/sometime-West Indian drawl - what the hell? For exactly five minutes he is very nearly entertaining, standing there, hand in pocket, even singing the echo bits from the song. Amazing.

Eccentric old Garth Crooks, providing some late night analysis of Spurs/ Manchester City on the Sunday MOTD in his inimitable elderly-bachelor-talking-to-a-stupid- foreigner style, insisted on pronouncing the surname of Spurs fullback Pascal Chimbonda as Chimp-onda. Was this just an unfortunate error, or is Garth right and everyone else wrong? Probably the latter.