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
Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.
Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.
I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.
I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.
I've got two girls. I like to play golf. Apart from that there's not a lot goes on in my life. So I am boring, aren't I?
This is the better one. It's identical.
When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.
One of the biggest fears of players in a shootout is letting your teammates down.
When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James' Park. I've lived my dream and I realise how lucky I've been to have done that.
After being knocked out of the Champions League, which was a huge disappointment, the players sat down, had a meeting and said that the only way to get over that defeat was to win the UEFA Cup. That situation hasn't changed.
There's no point in us winning on Saturday and then going and getting beaten at Villa.
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.