Alan Shearer heartbreakingly admits wife and daughter are 'abuse' targets due to his job
express.co.ukBBC Match of the Day 2 presenter Mark Chapman has revealed, he receives torrents of abuse from those with clashing opinions.
As it turns out, coverage of Arsenal is something that sees even his young daughter verbally attacked."Like most pundits, Alan takes the criticism in his stride, but it can be hard," Mark revealed."I remember he did some analysis on Arsenal for Match of the Day 2 last season and the way the desk is built there is a shelf where you can put your phone."As I went to the next game, he picked his phone up from there and said: ‘I’ll just see how much abuse my wife and daughter are getting’ because they’d got loads after he’d done something on Arsenal the week before."Is that where we are with pundits?
It’s very weird.”Commenting during an interview with The Guardian, Mark admitted that the criticism and negative coverage can be "incessant".He revealed that when low blows are not targeting his family, they are directed at Alan himself, with many insisting his commentary is "bland".Yet for something so frequently called "bland", the public reactions to it are incendiary."Alan probably did sit on the fence when he started but that was because he thought he would be going into management, so he didn’t want to go on telly and slag off people he may have ended up working with," Mark explained."Anybody criticising Alan is really judging him on his first few years of punditry."To suggest he isn’t nailing it now is ridiculous."Steps have been taken in recent years in a bid to protect footballers from racist abuse and heckling.However, Mark now feels of the notoriously aggressive reactions that it has reached the stage where those who comment on football are even more in the firing line than those who play.
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