Scottish pundit whips out his Wenger-based comedy routine

A tip of the cap to 101GG, who have unearthed our favourite part of Sunday’s MOTD2.

Forgetting that he is live on a football show, Gordon Strachan appears to launch into an impromptu audition for Mock The Week. Watch out, Hugh Dennis!

The two bosses have now shown a similar taste in enemies

Those who have noted similarities between Alan Pardew and Phil Brown were provided with even more ammunition last night when the Hull boss followed in Pardew’s footsteps by falling out with Arsene Wenger.

Obvious comparisons between the two include that both enjoyed an initial period of fantastic overachievement after winning promotion to the Premier League and went on strong FA Cup runs. Both managers made their clubs’ record signing in their first January in the top-flight (Dean Ashton and Jimmy Bullard) and both men suffered long-term injuries at a crucial time.

Negatively, both managers have received criticism for some of their methods: Pardew for his sloganed T-shirts and training complex revamps and Brown for

Ex-Charlton manager unlikely to be asked back on MOTD2

Operating under the proviso “if Alan Shearer can do it, anyone can do it,” a jobless man named Alan Pardew was invited to display his punditry skills on Match of the Day 2 last night. If you watched it, and you thought you heard Pardew say Michael Essien “absolutely raped” Ched Evans, your ears did not deceive you.

Afterwards, no attempt was of an apology was made, so presumably such comments are deemed acceptable at the new transparent BBC.

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Our licence fees continue to pay for this man’s contributions

We at The Spoiler are huge fans of Alan Shearer’s unique brand of punditry - the way he strips away any signs of analysis, insight and useful information is truly masterful. On Sunday’s edition of MOTD2 he produced some gems that will undoubtedly change the way we all look at the beautiful game. Enjoy some choice cuts…

Shearer on Van Persie’s offside goal at Stamford Bridge:

“Scolari has been having a go at the referee, but it’s actually the linesman who makes offside decisions, so he should be having a go at him.”

So it’s the linesman who is in charge of offsides now? Wow, we had no idea. Thanks for clearing that one up, Alan, we had no idea the man whose primary function is to call offside decisions was in charge of offside decisions. Tell us more…

Shearer on Cristiano Ronaldo’s second yellow card:

“In this replay you can clearly see that the referee doesn’t blow the whistle until after Ronaldo commits the foul.”

Granted, C-Ron claimed to handle the ball after hearing a phantom whistle, but was it particularly helpful to analyse a slow motion replay (without any sound) showing us that the referee didn’t blow up for a foul that hadn’t been committed yet?

Harry ‘Redknob’ might not be pleased with Brummie presenter

BBC’s Prem highlights package ‘borrows’ idea from The Spoiler

When Adrian Chiles is at the helm, Match of the Day 2 is always preferable to its Saturday night sibling. However, with the Brummie currently heading home from the land of the rising pollution, Ray Stubbs filled in on Sunday night.

The most notable feature to suffer in Chiles’ absence was ‘2 Good 2 Bad’, where the premise is to feature two good and two bad clips from the weekend’s action. This week, the Beeb only felt it necessary to highlight one humorous observation (we were not told whether it was good or bad), namely Kevin Keegan’s constant inclination to touch people faces. Yup, that’s the same thing that The Spoiler highlighted three-and-a-half months ago.

It’s fine to steal ideas from the interweb MOTD2, but try to do it a little quicker in future…

Chiles and co check out ill-mannered geriatrics and blatant homoeroticism

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