Source: Daily_Mail
HATCHET MAN: Winning more points than Hughton won't make Shearer a good manager - it'll just mean Ne
If Alan Shearer saves Newcastle from relegation this season it will not make him a managerial 'Messiah' - it won't even make him a manager.
Eight games proves nothing at all. A man with his experience in the game and level of respect at St James' Park should be able to invoke football's new boss rule.
Shearer's arrival, as long as he doesn't completely let himself down on the training pitch, should give Newcastle's results a much-needed fillip and, let's not forget, they are only two points from safety.
Half their remaining fixtures could easily be termed winnable too - Stoke, Portsmouth, Middlesbrough, Fulham - and he surely cannot do any worse than the completely ineffective Chris Hughton.
So while Shearer's reputation will no doubt be taken to a whole new level on Tyneside if Newcastle stay up, to prove himself as a manager he will have to stay for next season and beyond.
He will have to show he can buy players and shape a squad, that he can make his mark in the long term.
The fact that he has finally got off the comfortable television sofa and stuck his neck out is a good thing.
He may do a good job for Newcastle and at the very least the will-he-won't-he about the manager's job which has reared its head a boringly high number of times should be consigned to history.
