Alan Shearer: Tribute to a football legend

Alan Shearer retired at the end of the 2005/2006 season and in my opinion had shown the world that he was a world class player.

He scored many goals in that period including many very spectacular goals. He was a very strong and fast player who you would always expect to get on the end of through balls. He was also what I would call an old fashioned English centre forward who could hold the ball up and used his head a lot. In terms of his heading he reminds me of Geoff Hurst who was also a great header of the ball. In additonal to this Shearer had much more in his locker such as volleying which he could get much power and accuracy on. Shearer is the highest ever goal scorer in the premiership over time at the current time. This to me shows what a great goalscorer he was.

I believe he supports Newcastle and decided to play for them as a pose to Manchester United. Many have probably criticized his decision due to the amount of medals he would have probably won at Man Utd but he truly cared for Newcastle United. His heart was with Newcastle United so he was only ever going to play for them. He had many great years at Newcastle and did some great things for England such as in Euro 96 where he scored a number of great goals and showed he can play on the international stage.

Quite simply Alan Shearer is a footballing legend.

The Newcastle website has more information on Alan Shearer. You can also view video clips of him playing on this website.