Shearer to play another season with Magpies

NEWCASTLE skipper Alan Shearer has agreed to play another season for his home-town club.

The 34-year-old, who has insisted all along that he would retire at the end of the current campaign, has negotiated a contract extension which will give him even longer to get the nine goals he needs to equal Jackie Milburn’s club record of 200.

Shearer’s decision will come as a massive boost to manager Graeme Souness, who insisted from his first day in the job that he would do all he could to persuade the Magpies captain to delay his retirement.

Persuading him to play on has become increasingly important with Bellamy having no future on Tyneside and Kluivert yet to persuade the manager on a two-year option on his contract.