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Alan Shearer

March 2026

  • Former Newcastle United forward Paul Robinson holding a football at the Sir Bobby Robson Centre

    ‘Newcastle fans booed me. Sunderland fans booed me’: the striker who replaced Shearer

  • Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Nicolas Jackson, and Federico Valverde in action during matches.

    Champions League review: English teams disappoint, Valverde dazzles and Simeone’s last dance?

October 2025

  • Yoane Wissa points to the badge on his Newcastle shirt

    Wissa club v country row looming as Howe avoids questions on Afcon availability

    Eddie Howe declined to confirm whether he would be happy for Yoane Wissa to play for the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the Africa Cup of Nations

September 2025

  • Blackburn Rovers' striker Alan Shearer celebrates with the Premier League Championship trophy lid on his head at Anfield May 14 1995. Bob Collier/Action Images Football - FA Barclaycard Premiership , Newcastle United v Arsenal , 9/2/03 Arsenal's Dennis Bergkamp in action Mandatory Credit: Andrew Budd/Action Images Robinho step-over Manchester City v Chelsea, F.A. Premier League match, City of Manchester Stadium, Eastlands, Manchester. 13/09/08. Pic Tom Jenkins/The Guardian Football Soccer Britain - Manchester United v Southampton - Premier League - Old Trafford - 19/8/16 Manchester United's Paul Pogba Jason Cairnduff / Action Images via Reuters Livepic EDITORIAL USE ONLY. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 45 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. Please contact your account representative for further details.

    From Shearer to Pogba: how 10 British record signings fared in the Premier League

    With £125m Alexander Isak’s Liverpool debut near, we look back at five record-breakers that flew – and five who flopped

May 2025

  • PL TV pundit Alan Shearer during the Premier League match between Newcastle United FC and Manchester United FC at St James' Park

    Alan Shearer on the Premier League’s US growth: ‘I’ve seen fans queue for miles’

    The Premier League’s all-time leading scorer has seen how football has grown into a major player in the US sports scene

July 2024

  • Alan Shearer scores a penalty in the Euro 1996 clash against the Netherlands at Wembley.

    From the Guardian archive
    Euro 1996: England’s dreams all come true as Netherlands outgunned by Shearer and Sheringham

    19 June 1996 The tournament hosts produced one of their most thrilling performances in years to reach the quarter-finals

June 2024

  • Max Rushden

    Sportblog
    double quotation markTen Hag may have been miffed but the awkward questions do need to be asked

    Max Rushden
    Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer had a couple of tough questions for the United manager after the FA Cup win – and they did it well

August 2023

  • Alan Shearer, Gary Lineker and Micah Richards laughing

    The week in audio: The Rest is Football; Terribly Famous; File on 4: Jon Holmes, Generation Shame; This Cultural Life

    Gary Lineker tackles some offside topics in his new podcast, while a celebrity series discusses all things Adele. Plus, Jon Holmes on the painful search for his birth parents, and the return of a Radio 4 favourite

July 2023

  • Brian Deane, Alan Shearer and Teddy Sheringham.

    The Knowledge
    The complete story of the Premier League’s goalscoring record

    Plus: Bruce Springsteen loving his football grounds, an overlapping season and keepers booked for diving

March 2023

  • A Manchester City fan with a sign in support of BBC presenter Gary Lineker before the match.

    TV review
    Match of the Day review – without Lineker, this is just 20 minutes of shameful, joyless TV

    The embarrassingly truncated and hilariously silent ‘scab’ MotD proves that Gary Lineker is the best in the game – and that the BBC has absolutely shot itself in the foot

December 2021

  • Alan Shearer

    Anti-vaxxers serving ‘legal papers’ to Alan Shearer go to wrong address

    Protest at property near Newcastle follows video of former England football captain urging people to get Covid booster

September 2021

  • Football goes showbiz ... David Beckham in Fever Pitch! The Rise of the Premier League.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Premier League nostalgia with Eric Cantona, David Beckham and Alan Shearer

    The trio are among the talking heads in Fever Pitch! The Rise of the Premier League. Plus: the return of Silent Witness. Here’s what to watch this evening

September 2020

  • Marcus Rashford

    Game changers: the new wave of athletic activism shaping Britain

    Marcus Rashford is on a mission to end child poverty. And the England forward is not the only sports star with a message

August 2020

  • Alan Shearer in action for Southampton in 1988.

    Guardian Sport Network
    When Alan Shearer scored a hat-trick on his full debut – while on £35 a week

    Alan Shearer celebrates his 50th birthday today. He has come a long way since his full debut for Southampton in 1988

April 2020

  • Jimmy Greaves, Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer

    Football quiz: top goalscorers

  • Sport<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Colorsport/Shutterstock (3164989a) FOOTBALL : LIVERPOOL 14/05/1995 LIVERPOOL V BLACKBURN ROVERS HENNING BERG CELEBRATES WITH THE CROWN OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE TROPHY Liverpool 2 Blackburn 1 Sport

    Football quiz: when Blackburn won the Premier League 25 years ago

September 2019

  • international break - September v2

    David Squires on …
    David Squires on … England, Scotland and Owen v Shearer

    Our cartoonist checks in as the international break takes hold, plus a beef distraction

September 2018

  • HALE, 22 August 2018 - Mark Chapman, BBC radio and Match of the Day 2 presenter, at home in Hale. Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    Mark Chapman: ‘Alan Shearer’s family get abuse for his punditry – it’s weird’

    The Match of the Day 2 presenter believes the criticism pundits like Shearer receive on social media has become incessant, unfair and does them and those who work behind the scenes a disservice

July 2018

  • Roy Keane holds up a Manchester United after signing in 1993

    How Alex Ferguson snatched Roy Keane out of Blackburn’s hands

    The midfielder became one of Manchester United’s greats but he had almost signed for Kenny Dalglish’s team instead

June 2018

  • Alan Shearer (63 caps, no history books) v Simon Schama (no caps, 18 history books).

    Shearer v Schama: ex-England striker refuses football lesson from historian

    Shearer had to remind Schama he had played in World Cup matches, as Gary Lineker and Piers Morgan continued their social media feud
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