Alan Shearer

A snub for Alan Shearer today as it was revealed he cant even get a meeting with owner Mike Ashley. After Shearer initially dragged his feet with the familiar will we wont he strategy that modern day managers employ instead of a straight yes or no. Its his turn to be left dangling. Personally I don't believe that Shearer showed enough in his 8 games in charge to warrant a full time position. A great striker he may have been but it does not always follow that a good player makes a good manager. The Newcastle fans have been to hasty in hanging the messiah title around Shearers neck you would think they learned their lesson after the shambles that was Keegan. Newcastle are a club that expect to much for all the talk of them being a big club sleeping giant etc. I cant actually remember the last major honour the magpies have won. In 1992 they won the old first division and you need to go back a further 70 years for anything else. Being relegated could in the long term be good for the club it will give them a chance to ditch the high earners and start to rebuild the club. But rebuilding wont be easy it was always hard for the north east to attract big name quality players it will be even harder now they are no longer top flight. Though he is a millionaire many times over Shearer was tempted to take over with the huge wage and promised million pound bonus for keeping them up. His greed was his downfall. He failed. His legacy now isn't the great striker with the club he supported as a kid. But rather the man who took them into the championship.