Alan Shearer

Don't go into this again.

You think that's a volley?

I don't think.

I'm no.

It is a volley.

But how is that a volley though?

That is a great volley.

No, there's heart.

There's definitely heart.

But I think what also comes with that is extra pressure.

the expectation of you because you're a local boy and it's your team, your area, and everyone looks to you to be the difference.

You know, when you go into the big games, it's you or you're the captain, you're the local boy, you have to do something to get us.

And that comes with an extra pressure, but I don't think, I mean...

Close to Man United?

Oh yeah, before, it was going to be either Newcastle or Man United, and I'd made the decision, really.

Everything was, the house was chosen.

That was that far.

from choosing from going to Man United Kevin asked for one last chat ironically in Manchester at Manchester airport and said could I have another half an hour with you and I did and I just thought what am I doing I just got to go back home

go back to Newcastle where I'd left 10 years earlier.

And so that, yeah, it was really, really close, yeah.