Speeding up the fight for fitness the Alan Shearer way

Larry Ryan was no longer enjoying his weekly six-a-side. So he tried out the Alan Shearer fitness regime Speedflex for six weeks. Could he find form? Or even get fit? 

It’s almost certainly a mid-life crisis. At best, a window of great existential vulnerability.

Here’s how the trap fell. Catastrophic performance at six-a-side on a Monday night — 6-0 down at half-time, amid consistent personal failure to close down chasmic generation gaps. Second half a parody of walking football.