They do seem charitable with who they employ - George Best was hopeless and who in right mind would give Dean Windass a job analysing?
Mind Merson is a half buffoon half shrewd pundit.
Remember him pouring scorn on a brilliant Messi run and goal saying yeah but look at defending, you don't get that in PL - the opposition was Real Madrid, admittedly they don't have same class as Wigan, Bolton, Wolves, Blackburn......
And as Andy Gray famously said could he do it on a wet Wednesday night at Stoke? Answer: clearly being the best player in the world, then yes he would be able to dink past Shawcross and Huth I'd comfortably predict.