On the day that the PFA was formed in 1907 – 2 December – there was a match between an England Legends XI – captained by Alan Shearer and managed by Terry Venables – and a World Legends XI – captained by Gianfranco Zola and managed by Jürgen Klinsmann – culminating in a gala dinner in the evening involving a host of top entertainers.

His father, a sheet-metal worker, encouraged a keen Shearer to play football in his youth, and the young player continued with the sport as he progressed through school.

Unable to afford university, Douglas Shearer left school, working at a variety of jobs until he visited his sisters, who by then had relocated to Hollywood, California in the early 1920s.

Born in Martha Brae, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, near the sugar and banana growing areas, Shearer attended St Simon's College after winning a parish scholarship to the school.

In 1897 W. A. Shearer, the new headmaster of the upper school, found not only that the buildings were inadequate and defective, but also that R. S. Gregory, Vicar of Edmonton, wanted to close the school and use the funds for the Church of England elementary school, a proposal which aroused much opposition, especially from the Edmonton Urban District Council.

In 1901 the lower school was accommodated in new buildings in Maldon Road, and a site in Haselbury Road was acquired for a new upper school, but in 1908, before building began, Shearer was killed in an accident.

As of the 2011-12 school year, the assistant principal is Eric Shearer.

Despite a serious injury which ruled Shearer out for half the season, Dalglish achieved fourth position with the team in the first year of the new Premier League.

Other segments feature Lionel Barrymore, Marion Davies, Gus Edwards, John Gilbert, Buster Keaton, Marie Dressler, Anita Page, Norma Shearer, and the comedy team of Karl Dane and George K. Arthur.

While he would never win a trophy at Newcastle, Shearer helped his team to runners-up finishes in the Premier League and FA Cup with Newcastle, and won a second PFA Player of the Year award.

It was while playing for the Wallsend club that he was spotted by Southampton's scout, Jack Hixon, which resulted in Shearer spending his summers training with the club's youth team, a time he would later refer to as " the making of me ".

Shearer was promoted to the first team after spending two years with the youth squad.

Despite this auspicious start to his career, Shearer was only eased into the first team gradually and made just ten goalless appearances for the club the following season.

Throughout his career Shearer was recognised for his strength, which, during his time at Southampton, enabled him to retain the ball and provide opportunities for team mates.

In his four years in the Southampton first team, Shearer made a total of 158 appearances in all competitions, scoring 43 goals.

Shearer also became a regular in the England team this season and scored his second international goal ; it came in a 4 – 0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier win over Turkey in November.

However, United ( now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish ) had a good run in the FA Cup ; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final.

After a disastrous season in general for the club, which culminated in Owen's former Newcastle and England team mate Alan Shearer being brought in as a temporary manager for the final 8 games of the season, on the final day of the season on 24 May, Newcastle were relegated from the Premier League for the first time in 15 years.

Wright did not make it into the squad for Euro 1992 at the expense of Clough, Gary Lineker of Tottenham Hotspur, Alan Shearer of Southampton and Arsenal team mates Alan Smith and Paul Merson.

Alan Shearer hit a hat-trick as the home team lost 5 – 0.

The modern era has different formations and has squad numbers rather than numbers 1 – 11, but some positions still retain their original numbers and a traditional centre forward or target man is often found wearing the number nine, such as Alan Shearer, who wore the number 9 shirt at club and international level, or Fernando Torres, the Spanish centre forward player who is wearing number nine in his team and at international level.

Kluivert joined Newcastle United on 21 July 2004 to team up with Alan Shearer.

Dalglish saw Tomasson as the perfect link-up player to England national team striker Alan Shearer.

Alan Shearer has spoken highly of Venables ' tenure as England manager, stating: " The best England team I played in was the one under Terry Venables before Euro 96.

He played alongside Alan Shearer and Matthew Le Tissier – two of the country's highest regarded strikers in the early 1990s – and scored nine goals in 30 league games to ensure that the team finished high enough for a place in the newly-formed FA Premier League.

The programming team is led by Programme Director Dave Shearer.

Alan Shearer hit a hat-trick as the home team lost 5 – 0.

Despite missing most of the 1995 – 96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included compatriots like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham.

The Credibility Gap was a satirical comedy team comprising Harry Shearer, Richard Beebe, David L. Lander and Michael McKean.

Alex Ferguson then made unsuccessful bids for strikers David Hirst and Alan Shearer, sparking speculation that either McClair or Mark Hughes would be forced out of the first team by the new signings, but in the end the new striker signed was Dion Dublin, who was bought as backup for McClair and Hughes.

Shearer established himself as a player in northern England ; he became a regular in the England squad, and his 34-goal tally helped Blackburn secure the Premier League title in 1994 – 95.

Shearer's league-record 34 goals, coupled with Sutton's 15, helped the Lancashire club take the Premier League title from holders Manchester United on the final day of the season, and the duo gained the nickname " the SAS " ( Shearer And Sutton ).

Shearer also took on another play popularized by Cornell in Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ) ( her first film of the 30s to lose money ) and Marie Antoinette ( 1938 ) ( a budget of almost $ 2, 500, 000 was too great for the studio to expect a profit ), though their elaborate sets and costumes helped make the films immensely popular with audiences.

As a result, he helped develop some of MGM's most prestigious ventures, including Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 film starring his wife Norma Shearer ), Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ), China Seas ( 1935 ), A Night at the Opera ( 1935 ) with the Marx Brothers, San Francisco ( 1936 ), and Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ).

Given overtook Alan Shearer as having played in the most European matches for the club on 16 September 2004 in a game against Bnei Sakhnin, and Given's 12 European and 3 FA Cup appearances helped Newcastle reach the UEFA Cup quarter-final and the FA Cup semi-final.

Jimmy played in midfield alongside Glenn Cockerill and Barry Horne and helped to bring on the careers of exciting young players such as Le Tissier, Alan Shearer, Rod Wallace and Jason Dodd.

He helped Blackburn reach the new FA Premier League as Second Division playoff winners in May 1992, but his first team chances were then dented by the arrival of Alan Shearer at Ewood Park.

In 2006, a special production run of 2. 5 million bottles celebrated the career of Newcastle United striker Alan Shearer, who had recently broken the club's scoring record and was about to retire from football.

A native of Newcastle upon Tyne, Shearer made his professional debut with English top-flight club Southampton in 1988, scoring a hat-trick in the process.

A world-record £ 15 million move to his boyhood heroes, Newcastle United, followed the Euro ' 96 tournament, and Shearer spent the remainder of his career with the club.

Shearer is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ), a Deputy Lieutenant of Northumberland, a Freeman of Newcastle upon Tyne and an honorary Doctor of Civil Law of Northumbria and Newcastle Universities.

Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer.

Shearer had successful trials for First Division clubs West Bromwich Albion, Manchester City and Newcastle United, before being offered a youth contract with Southampton in April 1986.

Eventually both Manchester United and Newcastle United agreed fees with Blackburn Rovers and Shearer was all set to move to Manchester United but then at the last second Kevin Keegan requested one last audience with Shearer and persuaded him that his future lay at St. James Park.

On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £ 15 million Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up Newcastle United, managed by his hero Kevin Keegan.

Perhaps his best performance of the season came on 2 February 1997 when Newcastle went into the final 15 minutes of the game 3 – 1 down at home to Leicester City in the league, only for Shearer to win them the game 4 – 3 by scoring a late hat-trick.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

During this tour, he took the opportunity to observe how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media.

During the summer of 1996, Alan Shearer was sold to Newcastle United for a then world record fee of £ 15 million, and Harford failed to adequately replace him.

In 2001 he was granted the freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, on the same day as Alan Shearer.

He then linked up with Kenny Dalglish at Newcastle United on a one-year contract but lost his place in the side after Christmas, when Alan Shearer returned from a long-term injury.

Ferdinand scored 50 goals in only 84 games at Newcastle, forming a successful partnership with Alan Shearer.

Before the 1996 – 97 season began, Cole had to deal with being offered to Blackburn Rovers as part-exchange in a £ 12 million deal that would have brought Alan Shearer to Old Trafford but the offer was turned down and Shearer opted for Newcastle instead.