On This Day – 7th August
Alan Shearer was sent off for the first time in his career on this day back in 1999. His career had begun eleven year prior at Southampton and he had joined Newcastle via Blackburn Rovers, where he had won the Premier League title in 1995.
The red card was as a result of a second yellow given by referee Uriah Rennie in Newcastle’s 1-0 defeat against Aston Villa on the opening game of the season.
Jeff Winter, who was the Fourth Official that day, claims that an angry group of Newcastle fans waited for the officials outside St James’s Park and they had to escape out of a side door!
The second and final time that Shearer would get his marching orders would be on 1st December 2001 in a league game away to Charlton Athletic. That game ended in a 1-1 draw.
Alan Shearer is still the record goalscorer in the Premier League with 260 goals. He is now a pundit on BBC’s Match of the Day.
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