Last updated April 2008
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Alan is one of the most feared and
respected strikers of the modern era and a
wonderful ambassador for the game.
His debut was an indication of the wealth of
his talent – he scored a hat-trick for
Southampton against Arsenal on 9 April 1988
(sealing a 4-2 victory).
In 1992, at the start of the Premiership, Alan
moved to Blackburn Rovers for a British
record fee of £3.6 million, forming a lethal partnership with Chris Sutton,
which became known as the SAS.
Blackburn
won the FA Premier League in the 1994/1995
season, with Alan contributing 34 league goals
at the beginning of a sequence in which he
became the only player in English football
history to score 30 or more goals in three
consecutive seasons.
On 6 August 1996, after a successful Euro
96 where he finished the tournament's top
goal scorer, Alan joined his beloved Newcastle
United for a world-record fee of £15.6 million and fulfilled his childhood dream to play
for his local side.
As a Newcastle player, Alan
helped secure the side's position as one of
the world's premier clubs.
English PFA Player of the Year in 1995 and
1997, he scored 30 goals in 63 games for
England, before his retirement from
international football after Euro 2000.
On 7 January 2006 Alan equalled Jackie
Milburn's 50-year record of 200 goals and
finally on 11 May 2006, Alan bade an
emotional farewell to Newcastle United in
front of 52,000 fans.
Alan Shearer was a goal-scoring machine. In a
total of 701 club games he scored 379 goals.
He is still the English Premier League's all-time
highest goal scorer and was the first player to
100 and 200 goals in the League.
Alan was awarded the OBE in 2001 and is
now in his second season as a football pundit
with the BBC.
