Shearer’s MO is exactly the same week in, week out.
Nobody in football punditry is more guilty of fitting a false and contrived analysis to the score line when it doesn’t actually reflect the game. The winners, in Shearer’s world, always and without fail deserved the spoils. It’s beyond a joke and makes a mockery of the whole business of serious analysis.
City today were well below their very best and suffered from lack of penetration. Nevertheless, they were, overall, superior to United, conceded two goals from glaring goalkeeper mistakes, and had a very marginal offside goal disallowed. They had 70- odd % possession and were unquestionably the better team. It happens.
But Shearer has to justify the win - however selective he has to be in his editing; it’s crap, it’s dishonest, it’s lazy and self indulgent. He gets paid an obscene amount for his contributions and it’s just bad television. That we’re paying for.