The pair fired Newcastle to the Champions League in 2001/02 and worked tremendously together on the field. To make matters worse for fans, Sunderland lost the final to Swindon but then won a place in the top-flight after financial irregularities at the County Ground. Newcastle finished third in the Barclays Second Division but lost to Sunderland in the play-offs. Yet the summer of 1990 and the goals of Quinn and McGhee could not deliver promotion in 1990. "Me and Micky had something between us we could be proud of." McGhee also reflected on the partnership and said: “Out of all the clubs I played for in my career, I regard Newcastle as the dearest to me and hold them close to my heart. "Mark did a lot of hard work, but to be fair he got his own fair share of goals to boot." He gave me the licence to get into the box. "He would hold the ball up well for me to get into the box and score goals. "He’d turn defenders and drag them out of position. "He’d get the ball and drift left or right and drop deep. "You couldn’t say we were like Toshack and Keegan. "I won the golden boot in the Second Division with 39 goals. Quinn said in an interview with the Chronicle in 2014: "We actually got 57 between the two of us. Supporters were furious with the running of the club in 1989 but the pair gave fans something to cheer about. In the aftermath of relegation from the old top-flight, Newcastle tried to pacify supporters with the signings Quinn from Portsmouth and Mark McGhee came in from Celtic. Mark McGhee and Mick Quinn pictured in 1990 There was no surprise that the top scorer that season managed just six goals as veteran forward John Barnes tried to fill the void and manage an impossible job. However, Ferdinand had given his word to Spurs and Newcastle had lost two strikers ahead of the 1997/98 campaign in the space of day. Less than 24 hours after the sale, Shearer was injured in pre-season in 1997 at the Everton tournament, United rushed to Ferdinand to try to get him to change his mind. I wouldn't say we were great friends off of it but I would say we were decent enough friends off the pitch."īut for some reason, Dalglish decided that the £6million on offer from Tottenham for Ferdinand was too good to turn down. "I would say, like a load of the players I worked with, that he is a great fella and I still speak to Alan today. Everybody would say to me: 'What's Alan like?' "The great thing about that Newcastle side is that we were all great friends off the pitch. "If I weren't quite giving him what he wanted he was down the back of my throat and vice-versa. "We just enjoyed our football, we enjoyed playing together and I knew what I was going to get from him and he knew what he was going to get from me. "He would say: 'Les, should we have a go at them today?' And we would go: 'Yeah, go on then'. Speaking to Talksport about the partnership, Ferdinand said: "We would stand in the centre circle and he might say to me or I might say to him: 'Shall we terrorise them today, Al?' It was the 1996/97 season in which Ferdinand and Shearer were let loose on Premier League defences and despite injury issues for both players during phases of the season, they still bagged 49 between them! Shearer and Ferdinand's partnership may have seen the ex-QPR man lose the number 9 shirt but he gained one of his most prolific partners in attack. The England duo were afforded just one season together as Kenny Dalglish tried to fix something that clearly wasn't broken. Former Newcastle United striker Alan Shearer and Les Ferdinand
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |