Shearer’s Newcastle debut, 20 years on: “I didn’t think I’d ever play for them”

Alan Shearer has been one of the most dominant figures in English football, inspiring Blackburn to the title in FFT’s first season and just a year later giving the nation hope that 30 years of hurt could be banished at Euro 96.

Shearer won the Golden Boot that summer and scored two goals in England’s 4-1 mauling of the Dutch at Wembley – surely the greatest England performance in FFT’s 22-year lifetime (and we include the 5-1 in Munich in that).  

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