Source: SKY_Sports
Harry - Shearer will stay
Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp believes Alan Shearer will find it difficult to walk away from football management at the end of his tenure with Newcastle.[LNB] The former Magpies and England striker has been appointed as boss at St James' Park until the end of the season while Joe Kinnear recovers from a triple heart bypass.[LNB]Eighteenth-placed Newcastle are fighting a fierce battle to avoid Premier League relegation and take on Redknapp's Spurs at White Hart Lane on Sunday, live on Sky Sports 1 and HD1. [LNB]And ahead of the clash, Redknapp believes that Tyneside hero Shearer will be developing a taste for management.[LNB]"I think he is probably getting the bug for it and probably enjoying walking into training every day," said the Spurs boss. "The buzz he will get from winning, he will think, 'I need this'.[LNB]"I think once you are into it you are bitten by it - the ups and downs. We've all had ups and downs no matter who you are, even Sir Alex Ferguson."[LNB]HonestEven if Newcastle do get relegated, Redknapp believes Shearer's reputation will not suffer, and he wants him to do well and establish himself as a coaching talent.[LNB]"He has gone in there and with eight games to go he can't lose as it is not his fault as he never put them in this position," Redknapp said. "If he gets them out he is a hero.[LNB]"We need a Shearer, a young English guy to come through so that when we are looking for an England manager we can go, 'one of those guys has done well. Give them this'. That is what I'd love to see."[LNB]Former Portsmouth boss Redknapp was in the frame for the Newcastle job in 2008 but put himself out of the running, and he has no regrets over his choice.[LNB]"I was very close," he said. "I made the right decision staying at Portsmouth and was lucky to be the manager that won the FA Cup. I don't regret that at all.[LNB]"Honestly, one of the biggest reasons was I did not want to go away from home. That might be called unambitious but I did not want to be away all week from my family.[LNB]"It did not appeal at my age. I had dogs and family. Life is too short for me to be away all week. If I did not like my wife I would have gone. But I wanted to be with her."[LNB]
