What a great performance from King Al! He came in with Newcastle all but relegated and facing a seemingly irreversible crisis. There only appeared one way the carToons were heading, and that was down!
But look how Alan has turned things around since April the First! Even though he has been unable to get Owen scoring, and despite Barton betraying the faith that Shearer showed in him, Newscastle have climbed out of the bottom three and are now looking slight favourites to survive, given the dreadful form of Hull City who cannot win a game for love nor lack of money.
How inspired was that decision not to pick Martins to start the game against Miserableborough? Choosing instead to select a brooding and goalless Owen, Shearer held back his trump card until the point when it was very nearly too late - then he played his ace. Genius, shearer genius!
And what about using over 20 players in just a handful of games? Shearer tore up the rule book of finding a settled side with settled tactics and picked the team, it seems, using a roulette wheel. First selection number 7, second selection number 32, third selection...How inspired was that?
And the results! Well, what other manager would have accumulated five points in five games in a ferocious run of fixtures that included matches away to Stoke and at home to Portsmouth and Miserablebrough? Those teams were fighting for their Premiership lives and Shearer somehow engineered a tally of five points from those games. Average that points tally of five points from five games over a full season and Newcastle would have an amazing 38 points, enough in a normal season to finish third from bottom, four less than West Ham collected when relegated under that other Newcastle management favourite, Glen Roeder!
Newscastle fans have had more messiahs than...well certainly more than the average Christian. But at last it appears they have a man who not only came and saw, but actually conquered! Surely King Al must now be offered a 10 year mega contract after a points return to make the very best managers in the game scratch their heads in wonder.
Genius! Shearer genius!
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COCKneys dont you love them.....
At least this proves that sarcasm really is the lowest form of wit.
Let's get this straight. You've just spent 366 words on an article which is pretending you think Shearer has done well, when really you dont think he has?
I honestly don't get the joke.
Yeah it is no coincidence that the first four letters of Cockney is COCK. Why are you all so obcesed with Newcastle are your own teams really that boring that you have to spend your weeks digging other teams.
What short memories some people have! Only a few short months ago Zola, who I like immensely as a person, player and now as a manager, started with a run of 10 premier league games where he only collected 8 points. Bear in mind this mightly haul included 3 points from a poor Newcastle side who have gifted points to every team in the division this year. Not that great, is it? Yet Zola's done ok since hasn't he? You probabaly don't want to, but extrapolate (apologies, hammersfan; it's a long word, I know, with your short memory, if you ever did know what it meant you've probably forgotten) that form over the season and West Ham would be down by now !! There was also a defeat to Watford in the league cup during that same period. Every manager, experienced or otherwise, needs time to establish his influence on a team, 5 games is not long enough, give the man a chance !
Yeah good article.....erm wait a second didnt the mighty Zola start with very poor form in the first handful of games? Sure I remember seeing fans on SSN asking for his head? Maybe I imagined that eh????? Some people have very short memories
You're right about Zola's start! I don't remember Newcastle fans writing online essays to ridicule him though. Funny that.
why are you mocking shearer? im a west ham fan and think that it really doesnt matter how you stay up as long as you do. if you take a number of routes to decide, then so be it. shearer's task was to keep them up and he is on his way. im so glad newcastle are going to stay up because although im crediting them a bit too much here, the premier league needs the big clubs. lifeless boro/hull v newcastle? hmmmm. sorry newcastle fans, maybe hammersfan can evaluate his own team's fantastic performance this season rather than criticising others when they are fighting tooth and nail to stay up.
Mocking King Al? Who is mocking? Read the headline! Find me any criticism in the article! True, I acknowledge that West Ham went down with more points than Newcastle will end up with even if they win both of their remaining games but that's not King Al's fault, he is being measured against a managerial giant in Glenn Roeder! Nor is it Shearer's fault that he has only had the chance to accumulate five points in five games so far. He has won one of the identified "must win" games. True he didn't win the other, and indeed was lucky to get a point at home to Pompey, but Newcastle did pick up a point at the Britannia so fair play - a point away to relegation rivals is not to be sniffed at.
I agree with all those hailing Shearer as brilliant after these five games, that's why I wrote the article. You Geordies have found a true Messiah at last and can look forward to a fantastic season next time around based on the evidence so far. 38 points! Heady stuff based on the return before Shearer took the job!
Lighten up! I know it is hard to see the funny side with your nostrils half an inch above the sewage but you could at least try!
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