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One of the game's great careers came to a fitting end last night when Alan Shearer - part modern-day hero, part quintessential, old-fashioned centre-forward - bade a fond, final farewell to an adoring St James's Park.
So perfectly staged-managed was the Tyneside legend's testimonial match that Newcastle United were even awarded a highly dubious last-minute penalty and, with the score perfectly and predictably poised at 2-2, not even the torn knee ligament that forced his premature retirement could prevent the 35-year-old from entering the field to drill home the winner.
Opponents Celtic, whose vast, affable army of travelling fans make them the club of choice for such events, adhered graciously to the script, and Shearer, having wheeled for one last trademark, straight-arm celebration, was left uncharacteristically emotional at the remarkable show of affection afforded to him by a crowd of 52,275.
"Where else in the world would you get that?" he mused afterwards, his voice trembling. "I had more than one tear in my eye to be honest, but I defy anyone not to have a tear in their eye with an atmosphere like that."
Yet it's not only in Newcastle that they are wondering if they will see Shearer's like again, and no wonder. A cursory glance at the English Premier League's all-time scoring charts re-affirms, after all, that this was a peerless player, one whose tally of 260 top-flight goals leaves him fully 75 and 96 better off than his nearest rivals, Andy Cole and Thierry Henry respectively.
Many speculate, of course, that this mammoth tally would be even greater had Shearer not twice turned down Manchester United - first in 1992 to join Blackburn Rovers, then to make a British-record transfer to his hometown team - and yet Shearer remains adamant that, despite failing to lift silverware during his decade on Tyneside, he has never once regretted snubbing Sir Alex Ferguson.
"(Newcastle) will always be my club, it always has been," [url=http://beyondfocus.com/tmp/Scheelings.html]http://beyondfocus.com/tmp/Scheelings.html[/url] he said this week ahead of his testimonial, the proceeds of which are to benefit various charities. "I would just say - look at every kid in every playground in the North East and the joy they get when they score a goal. I'm exactly the same. This (St James's Park) has been my playground for the last 10 years." 
Eriksson and Robson laud a legend
It is a source of irony and no small embarrassment on Tyneside that Shearer was rejected by Newcastle as a schoolboy, although, for all that the decision ultimately cost his boyhood heroes to the tune £15 million, the player himself appeared to benefit from beginning his career instead with south coast club Southampton. Certainly, it was there in 1988, at the age of 17 and just a month after his senior debut, that he smashed three goals past Arsenal to eclipse Jimmy Greaves as the youngest hat-trick scorer in English top-flight football and shatter a record that had stood for over three decades.
The goals never dried up thereafter, either for Southampton or for Blackburn, whom he joined for £3.6 million in 1992 and left four years later with a Premier League medal, having scored 130 goals in 170 appearances for the unfashionable Lancashire outfit.
After [url=http://www.authorvisitmatch.com/aspinfo/readme.html]wholesale jerseys[/url] spurning Manchester United a second time, Shearer's reward was an 18,000-strong welcoming party at St James's Park and, though even his best efforts couldn't bring an end to the Toon Army's long wait for silverware, this season did witness the veteran striker surpass Newcastle legend Jackie Milburn's 49-year-old goalscoring record, with his 206th and final goal for the club securing a precious away victory over bitter North East rivals Sunderland.
With England, and despite retiring from international football while still in his prime, he came close to a goal every other [url=http://www.ginas.co.nz/media/118/ifansjersey.html]ifansjersey.com[/url] game, scoring 30 times in 63 appearances to finish level with Nat Lofthouse and Tom Finney as the country's fifth-top all-time marksman. 
It also said a great deal for Shearer's performances after departing the international scene in 2002 that, in the programme for his testimonial, England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson bemoaned the fact he had not been able to coax Newcastle's talismanic striker out of retirement.
"It is hard for anyone not to admire Alan Shearer," wrote the Swede. "He is a tremendous ambassador for the game of football. He is admired by his fellow professionals, and if any young player wants a role model or someone to learn from, then look no further."
Sir Bobby Robson, meanwhile - who revealed that he had unsuccessfully petitioned Barcelona to sign Shearer during his time in charge at the Camp Nou - was even more effusive in his praise of the player he later made captain while manager at St James's Park. "He had everything, on and off the field," enthused the former Newcastle and England manager. "Alan Shearer is up there with the best strikers this country has ever produced." 
What next?
Shearer is now reported to desire, and has certainly earned, a break from the beautiful game to devote some time both to his family and the local golf course. "One day I'd like a bash at management - I am doing my badges at the moment - but I want a few years off to enjoy life first," he insisted earlier this year.
Not for the first time, however, the 35-year-old's emotional ties to Newcastle may cloud the issue, particularly if - as appears likely - the Magpies follow through in appointing Glenn Roeder manager on a permanent basis. Shearer has, after all, been assisting Roeder during the former West Ham coach's period in caretaker charge and, though an ambassadorial role had originally been set aside, it appears the club's all-time leading goalscorer may yet assume a more hands-on position. 
"He knows me very well, I know him very [url=http://www.fijibeachresortbyhilton.com/umbraco/reumbraco.aspx]cheap custom replica jerseys from china[/url] well and we trust each other," is all Shearer will say for the time being on his relationship with Roeder. Nevertheless, when he supplements this with the considerably less non-committal comment, "This my club and I want to stay involved," one would be forgiven for suspecting that last night's farewell might not have been so final after all.
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