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Last week Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Ian Wright discussed the 10 best goalkeepers to play in the Premier League. This time round the focus was on the 10 best managers.
It is easy for the trio to share their opinions, but between them they managed only eight Premier League games – all thanks to Shearer – but his reign ended in disaster when Newcastle were relegated in 2009.
Despite that failure, our former striker believed, at the time, that he would be given another chance by Mike Ashley to prove himself, but instead the responsibility to get the club back up fell on the shoulders on Chris Hughton.
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In response to Lineker’s question about whether he was disappointed he didn’t continue in the dugout, Shearer told Match of the Day: Top 10:
“Yeah, I thought even despite what happened I loved the eight games I had and I still thought after that I was going to stay on and have another crack at getting them back up.”
It probably worked out for the best that the pundit didn’t return, despite the love shared between him and the fans, as he didn’t exactly prove his managerial credentials by winning just one of his matches in charge.
Moreover, Hughton took us up with 102 points on the board and helped stabilise us in the Premier League. Shearer, by contrast, hasn’t managed a game since.
He seems to be enjoying the analysis side of the game, too, so much so that he has even ruled out a return to the game in a management capacity, which allows us to hear his opinion on topics including Premier League clubs’ furloughing staff.
“No, not now,” he said in response to Lineker asking him he if fancies another job as manager.
“I don’t think that at all now. That was then, this is now, and I am happy in what I am doing but I don’t see any chance of me going back into it now.”