Shearer suprised by Bellamy popularity

Bellamy has plenty of teams chasing him as Liverpool look to make a profit on the £6m they paid for him last Summer, but Match of the Day's dullest pundit can't understand the demand.

"Has no-one learnt their lesson about signing Craig Bellamy?" said Shearer.

"If only [Liverpool manager] Rafa Benitez had rung me I would have told him exactly what he was like. I hope there isn't anything in [the Newcastle reports].

"I was having a few days away in France with [former Newcastle team-mates] Gary Speed and Steve Harper and the wives and I picked up the newspaper. I was having a fantastic day.

"But when I read Bellamy for Newcastle I thought I would definitely have to have another drink. I had several."