It cannot be questioned that Alan Shearer was a better striker than Wayne Rooney. Rooney a more complete player but Shearer a better striker.
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Shearer’s achievements in spearheading Blackburn Rovers to the title in 1994/95 is unsurpassed in the modern domestic English game. It’s the only instance in over half a century of a football club from a provincial town and not a city becoming champions of England.
Fair play to Shearer for resisting the overtures of the wealthiest of the elite coterie of the super franchises to restore past glories to one of the original 12 founding members of the football league.
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Gazza was a drunk that was chased out of Italy
If Shearer did sign for Man Utd and scored the exact same goals as he did, the lads would be calling him a flat track bully.
There was great honour in what he did.
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Shearer was old school. He was like Gary Cooper and Tony Soprano. The strong, silent type, and a deadly marksman.
The sort of man who’d go out for a drive with his kids and sing along to Elevation by U2 with the window down.
The sort of man who’d go home and creosote his fence after winning the league.
The sort of man who’d eat chicken and beans for his pre-match meal in the Blackburn club lounge, happily talk to visiting Irish people while doing so, and sign a couple of autographs afterwards.
Rooney was a snowflake in comparison.
American Wayne has been recast as a ball-winning, pass-spraying, midfielder
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Boom yeahhh baby
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One of the all time greats.
Where does he fall in the all time greats list? Who is he above / below?
Probably in that 2nd tier with Puskas and Garrincha.
Probably somewhere around Gazza. Loads of potential but destroyed by the British media and a self destructive nature
About level with Beckham.
And have we any idea where that would be - top 20? top 50? top 100?
Rooney would do well to make a top 100 players of all time.
He wasn’t destroyed by the media . He had a great career and was by all account a great trainer . He just had those big hips . The odd dally with John Lees notwithstanding
They were proclaiming him to be the saviour of English football at 16 years of age.
He had an ok caree, individually, won a lot of cups at United.
He only ever broke 20 premier league goals twice at United, this was at a period where he was centre forward for the most dominant team in England.
Overrated, in my opinion. Capable of scoring spectacular goals.
I think you could say that about a lot of English players over the last 20 years - capable of some great moments but not great players - Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, Scholes… all regularly destroyed at international level.
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He looked a real outstanding prospect a 16 to 19 . At that age he was freakishly well developed physically .
He had a great career and is the 2nd best British footballer this century .