This week’s Illustration Friday theme is Talisman; my entry is football legend Alan Shearer, former talismanic striker for Newcastle Utd, and their new (temporary) manager. What a career he had: Southampton, Blackburn, Newcastle and of course England. These days, his beloved home-toon club is in absolute turmoil; I thought being a Spurs fan was a hard ride. Now Shearer is in charge, can he keep them up? Will he be a talismanager?
For my American friends: Alan Shearer was an absolute goal machine in the nineties, but you might not know about him because he didn’t marry a pop-star or have a girl’s soccer film named after him (“Run Away After Scoring and Point in the Air Like Shearer” never made it off the storyboard). He was in that film ‘Goal’ though, which also featured cameos by both Beckham and Zidane. I know you’ve heard of them.
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Great likeness. I’m a big Alan fan, but I thought it was an April Fool’s joke when it was announced!
Alan seems like a decent bloke – in any other circs I’d like to wish such a bloke well. BUT, instead I hope Boro and the Toon go down and we stay up and then all will be well with the world!
You know I love this one, I’m always looking for Newcastle to do well but I’m running out of time like Shearer did.