Alan Shearer it is fair to say will have no loyalty at all to Sunderland being a Newcastle fan who played for his home town team for many years but even so I think he may be over stretching things a bit with his predictions for the Swans game at the Stadium of Light this weekend.

Shearer suggested that the Aussie total in the fourth Ashes test at Trent Bridge could be in danger in the game such is the difference between the two sides. As a reminder the Aussies were all out for 60 in their first innings but I'm not sure Shearer really believes that the Swans will eclipse that tally.

The difference between the two sides in the two games to date though is clear for everyone to see but form books can go out of the window especially at this early stage of the season and a home win tomorrow would see the two sides just one point apart despite those big differences.

Shearer had to watch last weekend as the Swans breezed past Newcastle at the Liberty and that is one of the benchmarks that he is using when he considers this game

“Having seen the way Jefferson Montero went about leading the destruction of Newcastle at the weekend, and the way Sunderland are defending, I would suggest the Aussies’ total in the Fourth Ashes Test could be in danger,” the Newcastle legend wrote in The Sun.

“Already Sunderland look doomed.”

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