Shearer joins former team-mates in Champions League heroics

ALAN SHEARER embarked on a manhunt after plundering his first Champions League hat-trick to fire Newcastle United closer to the quarter-finals.

Fri, 28 Feb, 2003 - 00:00
Damian Spellman

The 32-year-old Magpies skipper became the second Newcastle player to collect a treble in the competition after Tino Asprilla's performance against Barcelona in 1997.

But it was not the Colombian he needed to speak to after inflicting a one-man demolition job on Bayer Leverkusen.

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