Nobody likes being interrupted - when it's on national telly, in front of a collected audience of millions of football fans, and it's by an old rival who you probably think talks an awful lot of his trouser region, it's clearly got to be even worse. So bad, in fact, that the interrupted party cannot fail to show their frustration to the host with an exacerbated frown and shrug. Shearer cannot be the best colleague on the pundit's couch: he's not the most articulate, he's never particularly insightful, but he's cherished in the position because of what he's always represented to English football. So there's clearly some unspoken rule that what Alan wants and what Alan does have to be endured: it's just funny that for a brief moment, that entrenched feeling slipped out from the cool surface with Dixon on MOTD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJTnszMPLXQ
