Shearer: 'It's Not About Me!'

Last updated : 03 April 2009 By Footy Mad - Editor

Alan Shearer: "I have had a reputation as a player but that has gone, I'm moving on to something different now.

"I'll be judged over the eight games, as every single manager is. I have not come into this with my eyes shut, I know what the stakes are.

"I understand why the fans are excited - because it is myself and Newcastle United - but we have to get away from this Alan Shearer thing.

"It is not about me, it is about keeping this club in the Premier League. I'll be trying as hard as I can to get away from that.

"Yes I'll go out and see the fans and sign autographs and give them as much as we can but we have to try to get away from this thing about me, we have a job to do.

"I think the fans know me more than anyone does. They know they will get 100%, 24 hours a day for the next seven or eight weeks.

"But I want to put it (the focus) on to the players because they are the important ones."