{"id":300430,"date":"2023-12-18T21:24:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T21:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=300430"},"modified":"2023-12-18T21:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T21:24:46","slug":"alan-shearer-praises-ian-wright-for-making-life-a-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/alan-shearer-praises-ian-wright-for-making-life-a-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Shearer praises Ian Wright for making &apos;life a joy&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Alan Shearer praises Ian Wright for making &#8216;life a joy&#8217; as the Arsenal legend prepares to step back from Match of the Day&#8230; with the Newcastle icon claiming his Saturday&#8217;s will now be &#8216;much much quieter&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alan Shearer has praised Ian Wright&#8217;s legacy on BBC&#8217;s iconic Match of the Day<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>60-year-old Wright recently announced he would be leaving the show next year<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It&#8217;s LAZY to criticise a team for setting up defensively. It requires intelligence, hard work, discipline and selflessness. Well done Man United &#8211; It&#8217;s All Kicking Off<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alan Shearer\u00a0hailed Ian Wright after the England and Arsenal legend announced he would be stepping away from his punditry duties on BBC hit show Match of the Day.<\/p>\n<p>Wright announced on Sunday that he would end his 26-year association with the show at the conclusion of the current Premier League season and explained he felt &#8216;very privileged&#8217; to have been part of it for so long.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Lineker, Shearer and Wright have been iconic presenters on the weekend football show, with the former Gunners striker the first to leave the MOTD trio.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining the moment Wright told him that he would be leaving, Shearer praised his colleague and gave a fascinating insight into their long-standing friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in The Athletic, Shearer stated: &#8216;[Wednesday] I picked him up from the airport, we had breakfast at his hotel and then I met him again in the pub a few hours later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/18\/20\/79099889-12878363-image-a-81_1702930035866.jpg\" height=\"430\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Alan Shearer has praised Ian Wright after the Arsenal legend announced he will be leaving Match of the Day<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/18\/20\/79099891-12878363-image-a-82_1702930049104.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wright, Shearer, and Gary Linker are the BBC&#8217;s flagship programme&#8217;s iconic punditry team<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was only afterwards that I appreciated how much I\u2019d been looking forward to it and perhaps this, ultimately, is the best compliment I can pay my longstanding colleague on Match of the Day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Wrighty, if you\u2019re reading this, you make life a joy,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was over the course of his trip that he told me he\u2019d be stepping back from Match of the Day come the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ll still work together on the Premier League, but my Saturdays certainly won\u2019t be the same. For a start, they will be much, much quieter,&#8217; said Shearer.<\/p>\n<p>Tributes from supporters poured in for the 60-year-old after he announced his decision to depart on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Part of Wright&#8217;s initial statement read: &#8216;After my debut show whilst still a player in 1997 and many more memorable years, I\u2019ll be stepping back from BBC MOTD at the end of this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/18\/20\/79100183-12878363-image-m-87_1702930122434.jpg\" height=\"463\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/18\/20\/79099893-12878363-image-a-88_1702930135118.jpg\" height=\"463\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Shearer praised Wright for &#8216;making life a joy&#8217; as the Gunners icon confirmed his MOTD exit<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I feel very privileged to have had such an incredible run on the most iconic football show in the world.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Shearer continued to laud his former opponent&#8217;s impact on the show&#8217;s production and insisted there was never a concern of energy levels dropping when Wright was on set.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You get to the studios in plenty of time for the 12.30pm kick-off, you\u2019re still there 12 hours later and the danger is you feel tired and drained just at the moment you\u2019re supposed to come alive on camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There\u2019s never a chance of that with Wrighty around. The days feel so much shorter, because you\u2019re giggling and taking the p*** out of each other. And he gets so into the matches, particularly when Arsenal are playing. It flies by,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12878363\/Alan-Sheare-Ian-Wright-match-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Shearer praises Ian Wright for making &#8216;life a joy&#8217; as the Arsenal legend prepares to step back from Match of the Day&#8230; with the Newcastle icon claiming his Saturday&#8217;s will now be &#8216;much much quieter&#8217; Alan Shearer has praised Ian Wright&#8217;s legacy on BBC&#8217;s iconic Match of the Day 60-year-old Wright recently announced he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alan Shearer praises Ian Wright for making &amp;apos;life a joy&amp;apos; 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