{"id":292062,"date":"2023-10-26T09:24:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T09:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=292062"},"modified":"2023-10-26T09:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T09:24:22","slug":"michael-owen-reveals-he-has-not-spoken-to-alan-shearer-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/michael-owen-reveals-he-has-not-spoken-to-alan-shearer-in-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Owen reveals he has not spoken to Alan Shearer in FOUR YEARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Michael Owen reveals he has not spoken to Alan Shearer in FOUR YEARS after the England legends fell out over claims about his spell at Newcastle in his 2019 autobiography<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Owen and\u00a0Alan Shearer publicly clashed on social media over his autobiography<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tension surrounded Owen&#8217;s time at Newcastle when Shearer was manager\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Owen had claimed Shearer had blamed him for the club&#8217;s relegation in\u00a02009\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Michael Owen has revealed he is still not spoken with Alan Shearer after the former England strikers had a public war of words in 2019 over his autobiography.<\/p>\n<p>Shearer had coached Owen during the latter stages of the 2008-09 Premier League season, with the Newcastle legend parachuted in as manager in a desperate bid to save the club from relegation.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle were relegated on the final day of the campaign, finishing one point from safety.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions had emerged between Owen and Shearer, with ex-Newcastle coach\u00a0Paul Ferris claiming the former had been unwilling to risk his fitness due to his contract expiring in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Owen had denied the claims and insisted he was willing to play for the duration of their match against Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/09\/77022589-12674277-image-a-1_1698307744475.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Michael Owen reveals he has not spoken to Alan Shearer in four years after a public feud<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/09\/77022631-12674277-image-a-2_1698307815651.jpg\" height=\"463\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Owen and Shearer had formed a strike partnership with both Newcastle and England<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>The striker only featured for the final 24 minutes, as Newcastle lost 1-0 and were relegated from the top flight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I told him (Shearer) I wasn&#8217;t fully fit but was prepared to play. As I left his office that day, he made an insinuation that led me to believe he thought I had half an eye on my next contract,&#8217; Owen wrote in his\u00a0autobiography &#8216;Reboot&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m not stupid \u2014 we both knew I was out of contract in a few weeks. It wasn&#8217;t until three months later that I discovered Alan Shearer was apparently seething with me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Not only that, it transpired that he was telling anyone who&#8217;d listen what he thought of me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The tension had reignited after Owen&#8217;s autobiography was published in 2019, where he revealed\u00a0he did not want to sign for the Magpies in 2005 and said Shearer&#8217;s record as manager was &#8216;dire&#8217; as they were relegated in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Shearer hit back on social media when posting a clip in which Owen admitted to hating the last seven years of his career and said he could not wait to retire.<\/p>\n<p>The Newcastle legend commented: &#8216;Yes Michael, we thought that also, whilst on \u00a3120k per week\u2026&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Not sure you are as loyal to Newcastle as you make out mate,&#8217; Owen responded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I distinctly remember you being inches away from signing for Liverpool after Sir Bobby Robson put you on the bench. You tried everything to get out.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/09\/77022637-12674277-image-a-3_1698307879521.jpg\" height=\"481\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Owen previously claimed Shearer had blamed him after Newcastle were relegated in 2009<\/p>\n<p>Owen has revealed the pair have not spoken since the public feud in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I haven&#8217;t spoken to Alan Shearer since he criticised my book, no,&#8217; Owen said in an interview with\u00a0DAZN Bet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Alan works at the BBC and I work on other channels, so we rarely cross paths.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I would say hello and shake his hand, things like that, but no we haven&#8217;t spoken since then.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Reports had previously claimed Amazon Prime had taken the decision to send the pair to separate games during punditry work for the streaming service.<\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s autobiography had suggested Shearer had opted to blame him for Newcastle&#8217;s relegation, rather than take responsibility as manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He was brought in at St James\u2019 Park as the saviour, the local boy,\u2019 he said. \u2018It could have been a great story. But he failed. Newcastle United were relegated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Perhaps rather than examine his own shortcomings, it felt easier to blame Michael Owen. When you analyse it, it all makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Shearer\u2019s record as manager in the last eight games of that 2008-2009 season was dire: lost 5, drew 2, won 1. These are hardly God-like stats.\u2019<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12674277\/Michael-Owen-Alan-Shearer-Newcastle-dispute.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Owen reveals he has not spoken to Alan Shearer in FOUR YEARS after the England legends fell out over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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