Alan Shearer: I doubt I’ll go back to management

It’s a select club. The likes of Shay Given, Joey Barton, Damien Duff and myself. Lads who’ve been coached briefly by Alan Shearer, writes Larry Ryan.

“Well done, big man,” Shearer says compassionately, as I stumble through the last few box jumps of a four-minute block.

He shows how it’s done; on the screens his heart-rate well in the red zone; ploughing into his work as if charging for the back stick, eyes fixed for that perfect flight.