The former Arsenal player was a gillion miles off today, a gillion miles.
Paul Merson confused Hartlepool goalkeeper Scott Flinders, with Simpsons character Ned Flanders. The pundit was watching the Monkey Hangers League Two fixture with Wycombe on Sky’s Soccer Saturday when he made the error. Merson said ‘Flanders’ had come to collect the ball, before being corrected by host Jeff Stelling and realising ‘Flanders’ is in fact a fictional character.
