Alan Shearer’s weak ‘non-defence’ of Blackburn’s Steve Kean

Alan Shearer has continued his habit of using a lot of words to say not very much, this time to claim that Blackburn manager Steve Kean deserves ‘more time’ to turn around the club’s ailing fortunes.

“He’s the same manager who was there last season and we are only seven or eight games in to the new one. You don’t become a bad manager in that space of time.”

Isn’t that the problem though Alan? True, you don’t become a bad manager in ten months, but Steve Kean has never been a good manager – and Blackburn have never been headed anywhere but down since he took over from Sam Allardyce last December. If Steve Kean is still manager of Blackburn next May, they will be relegated – end of discussion.

“The fans are unhappy and it is a tough situation for him to be in. They haven’t got the points that everyone would have hoped. He’s having a tough time and he needs results ASAP, just like any other manager does. It’s a tough situation and he needs to win games. He hasn’t, which is why he is under pressure. He will have known that when he took the job though.”

All true Alan – but why does any of that support the notion of Kean not being sacked?

Does Alan Shearer have any actual opinions on the game that he can quantify – everything he says is just a continuous flow of rhetoric and cliche.

How is this guy a pundit on terrestrial television’s flagship football program, he doesn’t ever say anything beyond repeating facts that everybody is already aware of. Anything bad is ‘disappointing’, anything good ‘deserves credit’, etc etc etc. Scoring lots and lots of goals does not make someone interesting.

Just a big thank you for chipping in there Alan, your thoughts and vocabulary continue to enlighten us on a weekly basis.