Shearer’s 200th goal one of his most precious

ALAN SHEARER has scored some important goals among the 200 he has now plundered in his nine-and-a-half years at Newcastle.

There have been goals which have won FA Cup semi-finals, goals which have helped to secure top-four finishes, and hat-tricks in both the Champions League and UEFA Cup.

Yet when Graeme Souness comes to reflect on his time as manager of the Tyneside club he will look back principally upon the one that took his 35-year-old captain onto the pedestal reserved since 1957 for Geordie folklore’s greatest footballing hero.