Shearer Is Still A Winner!

"You can see when he plays all the small games sometimes with us, he is still a winner and he wants to win every game, and that's the mentality we must have.

"Maybe he has lost some pace, but he is still a good scorer every time. When I give him a good delivery, he scores.

"He has done a great job for us with [assistant] Iain Dowie. I believe we will stay in the Premier League and I hope for the club he will stay next year and bring something good for the next year.

"I used to play for Strasbourg and I went down into the second league.

"It was not easy, but it was not this type of thing because we were in the bottom three for the whole season.

"For Newcastle, it is different because it is a massive club and you don't want to see Newcastle in the Championship.

"That's why for every player now, it is the most important game maybe in our life.

"It will be a good thing if we save the club from the bottom three, and this game can give us a good lift for the next game against Fulham.

"We can't afford to lose this game because everybody knows three points is really, really important for us."