Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer, CBE, DL is a retired English footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and for the England national team. He is Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year awards...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth13 August 1970
CityGosforth, England
As far as I am concerned, nothing has changed. I will retire at the end of the season.
I've always said I'd like to give management a crack one day, but I'm not ready for this big club yet. It's a massive club with a great following and whoever gets it right will have great job on their hands because it is a big, big football club.
I wanted to go the full distance, yes, but if I have to finish, then it's not a bad way to finish, coming to your local enemies and scoring a goal that's helped us get a 4-1 win.
I am fearing the worst, unfortunately - I have been injured before plenty of times so I know the scenario and I haven't got a great hope.
We battled away at times, but we are not creating chances and that is very disappointing,
It's a very good win, there was a lot of pressure on us for obvious reasons. We proved tonight we mean business. We want to go all the way and win it.
It's a huge game for us. Defeat is not worth thinking about.
It's three points but it's more than that because it's against Sunderland. But we have got to get some consistency into our game.
There's been a lot of changes, you have to ask others why. Ideally, you'd want a manager for years and years. But whoever comes in inherits a great club, which has always had financial backing from the board and fantastic supporters. That's never been a problem.
It was a tremendous turnaround because we were rubbish in first half.
A manager should be judged on results and he has guided us to the World Cup finals as he said he would do.
We're in a relegation battle. Anyone who doesn't see it like that isn't seeing it correctly. I've known people deny these situations before.
There's no way the future's over for Martin Keown, Tony Adams or David Seaman.
I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.