Shearer Under Fire From All Quarters!
By Nu Mad
Updated Sunday, 23rd November 2008
Joe Kinnear made it quite plain on Football Focus that the time is right for Alan Shearer to either "get involved with Newcastle" in some capacity ... or ship out.
Although Shearer has kept his distance and left Kinnear to soldier on, the former England international had his mate Rob Lee (allegedly) speaking on his behalf last week.
Lee 'suggested' that Shearer would jump at the chance of becomeing manager ... but ONLY after Mike Ashley has left the club.
And Kinnear, knowing Shearer is THE major threat to his job, threw down the gauntlet yesterday, saying he would take the former Toon No 9 under his wing.
But that is NOT the way Shearer wants to work it. He wouldn't be No 2 to Kevin Keegan and he certainly won't be No 2 to Joe Kinnear.
Meanwhile the notorious Sunday Express put the boot in, with a rather personal attack on the GOALden Boy.
Sunday Express:
"Alan Shearer has been witlessly bland as a football pundit on the BBC, and maybe that's the reason for the vainglorious caution of his pursuit of the manager's job at Newcastle United.
"He thinks he is the best man to break his former club's 40-year wait for a trophy, but Shearer is hopelessly unwilling to say as much in public himself.
"Is this what Alan Shearer has been reduced to? Is this preposterous nonsense for real?
"Is the rugged old centre forward truly so fearful of a dent to his pride that he cannot personally tell the Newcastle supporters how he feels?
"If that's the case, he doesn't strike me as a serious man. That isn't the way a man ambitious to conquer the world of football operates.
"Good managers, never mind the great ones, are the one and only boss in their domain. They don't let others do the serious talking for them. They have a boldness of thought and deed and word.
"While some Newcastle fans indulge in a blind worship of Shearer, as they do of Kevin Keegan, there are also significant numbers of sensible supporters who are sceptical.
"They are right to be.
"They ask this question: Does a budding football boss wait two-and-a-half years after the close of his playing career to start in management?
"Nineteen of the 20 jumped straight in when their playing days finished, either as youth coach, assistant boss, or manager. The only one who didn't move across immediately was Gianfranco Zola; he spent one year as a TV pundit in Italy before his switch.
"We are told that Shearer is on the way to getting the badges. But doesn't his lack of urgency suggest a lack of seriousness?"
