Alan Shearer

It was like, fuck you, Shearer.

It was like, we got up to go together and we were sort of pulled apart.

I was just saying, put some...

He put the ball in the box and I'll try and do the rest.

And then we sort of calmed down and Kevin said to me, can I have a word with you, please?

I said, yeah.

So everyone went.

He said, you're not going to get the best out of David talking to him like that.

And I was like, well, any chance are you fucking telling him?

Honestly, after that, the crosses started coming in and it was so much better.

I mean, he could deliver a cross as well.

Oh, he was brilliant.

As I said, he was one of the best getting the ball, turning and going that way, but then turning the other way and going down on the left-hand side and whipping balls.

And he was brilliant at it.

I think to get the best out of David, you had to give him a, I don't know, a free reign.

Something like Mo Salah.

Like you just say to him, go and do your stuff in that end of the pitch where you're going to cause that much damage.

Because if you asked him to go the other way and defend then...

not going to get the best out of him.

And Kevin, I think, was, Kevin Keegan was able to get the best out of him, I think, that season, 95, 96.