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28th January 2017
10:47am GMT

"The great players are never rested. Messi, Ronaldo... I was never rested."https://twitter.com/BBCMOTD/status/825100681111445505 Shearer held his tongue - or was more than likely gobsmacked - on the night but he was not holding back this morning. When a Blackburn Rovers supporter not that the BBC was representing the side well by having two former players on, Shearer responded: https://twitter.com/alanshearer/status/825280639565955072 The former England captain scored 112 goals in 138 games for Rovers and helped them to the 1994/95 Premier League title. Savage played three years at Ewood Park and scored one goal in 76 appearances. Shearer's ever so gentle burn definitely got a lot of traction. Some of it was gentle ribbing https://twitter.com/TOMTHEHAMMER67/status/825281477030117376 Some of it was plain wrong https://twitter.com/Orpingtondad/status/825282124676726784 Savage is not going to let this one lie...
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