Jon Gaunt - Shockjock

You’re the nation’s No 1 shockjock and your talkSPORT show has more than a million listeners, so what’s the official verdict on Steve McClaren?

He’s got to go. I still hope we don’t qualify because we don’t deserve to. We need a root-and-branch restructuring of our game. The old farts at the FA need to wake up and smell the coffee. McClaren should never have been appointed in the first place. The people want him out.

So you don’t have much faith in the FA?

Mark my words, football will eat itself. There is a real danger that soon there won’t be any English players left in the Premier League but no one seems to care because there are so many Johnny Come Latelys in the stands. Football is a working class game but it’s in danger of losing its soul.

Are you in favour of the Government introducing caps on foreign players?

Well, for a start, Gordon Brown’s not fit to wipe spittle off my microphone.

But he’s better than David Cameron.

Said who? Cameron was born with two silver spoons in his mouth but he’s now listening to people like me.

And you prefer him to the greatest Chancellor that this country has ever had?

Brown’s not a leader. Could you imagine him in the dressing-room at half-time in the World Cup final, geeing up the lads? No.

So the past ten years have been a disaster?

That’s not what I’m saying. Labour have done some good things. The country is much more prosperous but they’ve turned it into a nanny state. They were right about Iraq, though, and they are right about the war on terror.

Right, back to football. What’s going on at Coventry?

We’ve run out of money.

Are you tempted to dip your hand in your pocket?

No chance. I’m Sky Blue through and through but I don’t need people shouting abuse at me. I’ve seen too many people lose their business sense when they try to run a football club. I know what I’m good at and that’s being on the radio. The BBC is full of lefties and we need people like me who tell it like it is. If you want to know more, you’ll have to buy my new book, Undaunted. It’s available in all good book shops.

Interview by Kaveh Solhekol

Comments

[Rob Cahill]

If I wanted a political debate I'd watch newsnight, not read TheGame. Saying that, this guy seems to know more about politics than football.

[PaperbackRioter]

I used to work with the squeaky-voiced Volvo shiller (did he mention his dad was a copper?) and no one liked him. How things must have changed....

[Roger B]

Who is this idiot and why do I care what he thinks about football? I ask respectfully, of course!

[James]

"And you prefer him to the greatest Chancellor that this country has ever had?" - this question is posed as if it is a statement of fact. As we all know, Brown has destroyed the pension schemes that were once the envy of the world and left the country on the brink of bankruptcy.