Newcastle United legend Alan Shearer was left cursing his luck after being stuck on a train of Sunderland supportersAlan Shearer was left fuming after being stuck on a train full of merry Sunderland supporters after they coasted to top spot in the Championship.
After a weekend away attending a friend’s wedding in Italy, the Newcastle United legend landed in London and needed to travel back to the North East. Little did he know the last train to Newcastle would be rammed with Sunderland fans celebrating their 3-1 away win over Portsmouth.
The Toon icon was forced to go incognito to avoid detection – while being teased by a chorus of songs aimed at himself. Thankfully for Shearer, he managed to go unnoticed and joked about how his “neck is killing” following the four-hour journey.
“So she (the LNER worker) said, ‘Unfortunately, there’s going to be a lot of football fans on’,” he told The Rest Is Football podcast. “And I look at, I think, ‘Oh, my ******* God’. Sunderland have played Portsmouth away. So I’ve got my cap on and I’m wedged in the corner on coach C, the first seat.
“And on they come and it’s getting busier and busier and there’s not one seat spare. The whole of the aisle Is taken up with Sunderland fans singing, pissed, they’ve all come in with their bottles of beer.
“I can’t even lift my head up. I’m scared to lift my head up because I think it’s just full of them because they’re all in a great mood. Their team won and they started singing the Newcastle songs, then they started singing the Shearer songs…
