August 11 – Beckham Dropped and Shearer Humbled
Dark days for two England captains in today’s trip down memory lane…
WHEN Kevin Keegan brought Alan Shearer back to St James’ after the Geordie’s Golden Boot-winning antics in Euro 96 the Toon Army were typically jubilant. Today in 1996 however, they fell quite when Big Al made his Newcastle debut in the Charity Shield, losing 4-0 to Manchester United. Read on here.
2006 – McClaren Drops Beckham
MOST England fans were distinctly under whelmed when Steve McClaren was appointed as Sven’s successor as national team boss.
He had after all been an integral part of Sven’s regime which had ultimately come up short – particularly in Germany in 2006 when the squad was clearly unbalanced, and the team never really got going, eventually going out on penalties (of course) after they had limped to the quarter-finals. Read the full story here.
If Shearer was as good at acting as he was at managing the Toon might still be playing the likes of Manchester United.
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