For a man who claims to "bleed black and white", it seems Alan Shearer is none too fussed about helping his home-team out. He made it abundantly clear he preferred the Match of the Day sofa when they widened the St James's door frames to boot Fat Sam out of the exit, and now he's apparently turned down an approach to help coach the strikers under Joe Effing Kinnear.
"It was very honourable of Alan," says Kinnear of Shearer's 'ta, but no ta'. "Speculation linking him with the job is never going to go away and we're both aware of that."
Perhaps Shearer's waiting until Newcastle are really in the Newky Brown stuff in the Championship, before taking on the Roy Keane Messiah-like role his ego so clearly demands. But let's hear no more of the black and white blood until he does.
