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Alan Shearer snaps at Gary Lineker over Man Utd question after BBC appearance
28.02.2024 - 11:03 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Alan Shearer has once again stood firm on his career decisions after being questioned by Gary Lineker on live television. The legendary striker came close to joining Manchester United in 1996.
During BBC's coverage of Blackburn vs Newcastle match in the fifth round of the FA Cup, Lineker proposed an interesting question to the Geordie star. But he was met with a striking response.
Shearer is renowned for choosing clubs like Southampton, Blackburn and Newcastle, contrary to larger clubs. His decision led him to win the Premier League title in 1994/95 with Blackburn Rovers, then proceeding to score a massive 206 goals in 405 appearances for his home team, rather than joining the trophy-filled tenure of Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.
Lineker queried: "People often say 'why didn't you go to Manchester United, you would have won loads of stuff there'. You've often said to us that you wouldn't swap it."
Immediately responding with a shake of his head and a determined response, Shearer expressed: "I don't really care about whether people believe it or not. I'm telling you how it is, if I had the same decision to make again now, I'd do exactly the same again."
"I had 10 unbelievable years there, it's my club, my hero was Kevin Keegan, I used to go and watch him. So to go and score goals at St James' Park was my dream, so to have the record, the statue there, and to have everything I've got in Newcastle, I wouldn't swap that for the world."
Shearer had a chat with Ferguson about moving from Blackburn to United, but Keegan convinced him to join Newcastle instead, sealing a £15million transfer. In 'In A Will to Win', his diary of the 1996/97 season, Ferguson confessed he was "'sick and angry" about missing out on Shearer,
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