1280x531 3
Home  »    »  Shearer says: “West Ham have been awful. Their defending is so bad it’s laughable”

Shearer says: “West Ham have been awful. Their defending is so bad it’s laughable”

| 05.10.2016
SPORTSBOOK ODDS

Coral’s Simon Clare sat down with football ambassador Alan Shearer to discuss West Ham United’s poor start to the season, which was extended in their Premier League home draw with Middlesbrough on Saturday.

Shearer says in his video blog that the Hammers cannot use moving into the Olympic Stadium as an excuse for sloppy displays at the back, and Slaven Bilic’s players need to take a look at themselves.

Listen to Shearer’s views, with the best quotes picked out below:

“It was like watching an Under-10 team”

“West Ham have been awful,” Shearer said prior to the Middlesbrough match. “I watched them last week and the week before, and their defending was so bad it was laughable. It was incredible.

“I said it on Match of the Day, but it was like watching an Under-10 team. Now I’m probably being disrespectful to the Under-10s, and will have to apologise!

“They’ve been all over the place. I know they’ve got one or two injuries, I know they sold one or two players, I know they’ve moved into a new stadium, but that in itself really is not an excuse because they’ve been away from home also and they’ve been awful.”

“To use the new stadium as an excuse is not really acceptable”

Alan Shearer does not accept West Ham moving to the Olympic Stadium this summer as an excuse for their struggles and poor form.

Alan Shearer does not accept West Ham moving to the Olympic Stadium this summer as an excuse for their struggles and poor form.

“To use the new stadium as an excuse is not really acceptable. Yes, it’s different for the players, staff and supporters, but it’s also different for other teams coming in there, so I don’t really buy that.

“Yes, it’s tough, but get on with it. You’ve got to perform and look at your own performances, and those players for West Ham have not been good enough.

“They all need to go home, look themselves in the mirror and say ‘have I performed to the best of my ability’? The answer would be no.”

Related

Head on over to the Shearer says archive for a whole host of exclusive interviews with Alan.

«
»

Author

Alan Shearer

Alan Shearer played his entire career at the top level of English football, winning the Premier League title with Blackburn in 1994-95. The following summer he signed for his hometown club, Newcastle United, for a then world record £15 million fee.

He ended his playing career with a record 260 Premier League goals, which still stands today. He also won 63 caps for England, including 34 as captain, and among his 30 international goals were five scored at Euro 96, a total that won him the Golden Boot at that tournament.

Now the chief pundit on Match Of The Day, Alan was one of the first two players inducted into the Premier League Hall Of Fame this year.