Alan Shearer has been told he acted “like a weasel” after being surrounded by Sunderland supporters. The Newcastle United legend found himself in a highly uncomfortable position on Saturday.
After attending a friend’s wedding in Italy, Shearer and his family were supposed to fly back to their hometown. But a cancellation forced them to go to Heathrow instead before taking a train back north.
Unfortunately for him, that coincided with Black Cats fans returning from their 3-1 Championship victory at Portsmouth. Shearer confessed earlier this week that he was “petrified” during the four-hour journey, keeping his head down throughout.
His fellow pundit Micah Richards has since teased him for his behaviour. During the latest episode of The Rest Is Football podcast, Richards said: “How funny is it though, you give it all the big one Al, ‘this Sunderland, that Sunderland’. But when he was on the train, it was you who was hiding like a little weasel.”
Shearer took it in good humour, laughing as host Gary Lineker joked: “Do you know what’s worse Micah? He snuck to the loo and put a Sunderland shirt on.”
“I was absolutely desperate for the loo, I couldn’t move. I was scared to go to the loo,” reiterated Shearer, who was at least rewarded for his ordeal by getting to see his beloved side’s 2-1 victory against Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.
He’d delivered a “f*** you” message to the Sunderland fans in question after he first recounted the harrowing experience to his Match of the Day and podcast colleagues Richards and Lineker, saying: “Gary, Micah, I had an absolute disaster, I sat there thinking you two would absolutely love this.
“We’re not in first class, we’re in coach, and I look and think ‘Oh my f***ing’ god’, Sunderland have played Portsmouth away. So I’ve got my cap on and I’m wedged in the corner in coach and on they come, it’s getting busier and busier and there’s not one seat spare [and] the whole of the aisle is taken up by Sunderland fans singing p****d and they’re all coming with their bottles of beer.
“Within half an hour, I can’t even lift my head up, I’m scared because I’m thinking it’s just full of them because they’re all in a great mood, their team just won and they start singing the Newcastle songs. Then they start singing the Shearer songs – ‘Shearer, Alan Shearer, oh what can it mean to a sad Geordie…’
