FANS couldn’t believe what they were hearing during the BBC’s coverage of Euro 2024 last night.
The Beeb broadcast their first game of the tournament yesterday as Italy beat Albania 2-1 in Dortmund.
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The usual BBC suspects of Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards led the coverage alongside Arsenal legend Cesc Fabregas.
But there was something different about the tones of Newcastle and England legend Shearer during his analysis.
The 53-year-old was unusually croaky during his post-match analysis, leading fans to compare him to Everton boss Sean Dyche.
Dyche is known for his deep gravelly voice and has famously joked that his signature sound comes from “smoking exhaust pipes” and “eating gravel for breakfast”.
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But Shearer’s inadvertent impression was more likely due a frog in his throat.
Fans took to social media to joke about the remarkable similarity between the pair’s voices – although Shearer’s certainly had more of a Geordie twang.
One wrote: “Alan Shearer sounds like he’s been hanging out with Sean Dyche! Eating all the gravel and smoking all the Benson’s!”
While another added: “Alan shearer has gotta get on the Strepsils he sounds like Sean Dyche!”.
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A third joked: “How many beers has Alan Shearer had while he’s been in Germany? Voice absolutely shot to bits!”.
And a fourth even renamed Shearer as “Alan Dyche”.
Shearer seemed to return to his usual tones later in the broadcast and will have been able to rest his vocal cords ahead of England’s start this evening.
Shearer will be back on fans’ screens as the BBC show coverage of England’s opener against Serbia in Gelsenkirchen.
Gareth Southgate’s brave lions will be hoping to get off to a winning start in Group C as they aim to go one strep further than their Wembley heartbreak at Euro 2020.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
