£40k-a-show pundit gives expert analysis that is so
fundamentally flawed that you might wonder whether he's bothered to
do any work on it at all!
Alan Hansen has officially forgotten more about football
than most of us have ever known - apparently including the basics
about how the upcoming European Championship is
organised.
The BBC's relaxed pundit - who reportedly trousers a lumpy
£40,000 an episode for his rarely less than utterly pedestrian
analysis on Match of the Day - failed to do his homework when asked
to provide his predictions for the first four home in the
Euros.
Hansen wrote: "It is the usual suspects in the final for me.
Spain won it last time and they won the World Cup in 2010. They
have got the best players so they are the favourites and rightly
so, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will win it, and it will
be close.
"As well as the Germans and the Dutch, I think Portugal are in
the mix too. Cristiano Ronaldo has been unfortunate before now to
play in Portuguese sides at major finals that have been really
negative, so he has not shown in tournaments how good he is.
1) Spain 2) Germany 3) Netherlands 4) Portugal"
All typically controversial stuff, marred only by the fact that
Germany, Netherlands and Portugal are ALL IN GROUP B - and can
therefore not all reach the knockout stage.
You can't get away with that sort of fundamental sloppiness at
this level.
The BBC swiftly moved to erase Portugal from Hansen's list this
morning, leaving him as the only pundit now naming just a top
three, presumably because he is out of contact, and couldn't offer
a substitute nation.
MirrorFootball's prediction of the top four most likely places
where the affluent Scot could be incommunicado:
1) The golf course
2) On his way to the golf course
3) On his way home from the golf course
4) The golf course (different one)
