Shearer and Wright return to TV together for Prem football after boycotting MOTD

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ALAN SHEARER and Ian Wright have appeared on Premier League TV a day after boycotting Match of the Day. The pundits both sat out of MOTD in a show of solidarity to Gary Lineker. Lineker was pulled …

ALAN SHEARER and Ian Wright have appeared on Premier League TV a day after boycotting Match of the Day.

Alan Shearer and Ian Wright provided punditry on Premier League TVafter he refused to address the ongoing row over his inflammatory tweets comparing the government's new Illegal Migration Bill to 1930s Nazi Germany, which saw him taken off air.ever since, though the presenter has received an outpour of support.The likes of Shearer, Micah Richards and Alex Scott followed suit, with presenter Mark Chapman also refusing to fill in for Lineker.

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