O/T: ALAN SHEARER GETS GOAL 250

[Geordie Ahmed]

Alan Shearer scored against Manchester City last night to get goal number 250 in the Premiership. this is a fantastic achievement for arguably the greatest striker to grace the Premiership.

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PREMIERSHIP'S TOP SCORERS
Alan Shearer - 250
Andy Cole - 172
Les Ferdinand - 150
Robbie Fowler- 149
Teddy Sheringham - 139

[Rob H]

Not suprised you put this on geordie, but you have to hand it to Shearer. What a player he is!

[Geordie Ahmed]

Indeed he is! not just a superb player but a superb professional! not once has he been in trouble off the pitch (unlike Bellamy,Dyer etc etc)

If only more players were like him! we are going to miss him if he does retire as he says he will! he is irreplacable!

[Jameel]

Alan Shearer scored against Manchester City last night to get goal number 250 in the Premiership. this is a fantastic achievement for arguably the greatest striker to grace the Premiership.

Congrats to him, but to call him the greatest striker in the premiership might be a bit over the top. I can name at least 2 or 3 premiership strikers I would have ahead of him.

But 250 goals is a good achievement and he deserves credit.

[in_cutter]

Any Arsenal fans here??



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[evsa]

nOW THAN gORDIE WHERE IN MIRPUR YOU FROM.

aND HOW COME AK LAD INTO FOOTIE.

cRICKET SHOULD BE YOUR PASSION.

[Abdul Qadir 236]

If he was so good he would have went to a top club but he knew he couldnt hack it! He is nothing on Ruud. Look at CL record of Ruud, compares with anyone in history.

[Jameel]

I'd have Cantona, Henry, Zola over Shearer any day.

[Sage]

This is a cricket forum. No room for lame ol' soccer threads,,,

[Uzi]

Great acheivement, but I wonder how many of the goals were penalties.

[Rob H]

Jameel Shearer is a living legend how can you compare him to Zola.

[Uzi]

Zola and Shearer are completely different players. I don't think you can really compare them.

[Jameel]

IMO, Zola is the most underated player to have played in the premiership. He is a much better all round player than Shearer, but Shearer is probably the better goal scorer.

BTW, did you know Abromavich wanted Zola to stay at Chelsea when he arrived at the club even though Zola was 37 and Chelsea has a squad full of stars. That says alot about his ability.

I know Shearer is a very good player. He's in my top 5 prmeiership strikers of all time. He's just not THE best.

[Uzi]

I agree Jameel, I myself don't think Shearer is the best. Zola is the better all round player. Zola was an excellent playmaker. He could create numerous chances with smart play and also scored fantastic goals. I remember the great goal he scored in the FA cup, when he flicked it in mid air from a corner.

[Geordie Ahmed]

nOW THAN gORDIE WHERE IN MIRPUR YOU FROM.

aND HOW COME AK LAD INTO FOOTIE.

cRICKET SHOULD BE YOUR PASSION.

My family is from Panyam! im a Geordie so Newcastle United is my first passion!!!!


Jameel it is not over the top and il tell you why! the players you have mentioned have not played in the Premiership since it started and continue to do so today, Shearer scored goals from day 1 and continues to do so! A strikers job is to score goals and that is why he is the greatest Striker in the premiership,note i never said player! Now to the players you mentioned;

CANTONA = A very good player, didnt score loads of goals. retired way too early to be classed as a great imo!

HENRY = A brilliant player! who is one of my favourite players at the moment. If he is still scoring at 34 when he has lost his pace then il say he is a better striker than Shearer (also let him have 2 career threatining injuries and we'll see how he recovers)

ZOLA = This guy is brilliant! a superb footballer and a superb person, a model professional, one of my all time favourite players! he is a wizard with the ball BUT he didnt score enough goals to be classed as a great striker, he was a superb player but scoring goals is what its about!


Great acheivement, but I wonder how many of the goals were penalties.

Uzi do you actually believe what you are insinuating????


If he was so good he would have went to a top club but he knew he couldnt hack it! He is nothing on Ruud. Look at CL record of Ruud, compares with anyone in history.

Gary that is the biggest lump of rubbish you have ever stated! Shearer joined us when we were the nearly equal to man-yoo so we were a top club!
Dont compare RVN to Shearer, Shearer started scoring goals when he was 17 and is still doing so at 34! you talk about CL why dont you compare the 2 guys Premiership record????
Also you have 2 remember Shearer between 97 and 2001 had 2 big injuries and had 2 play with average players, which made his job as a striker harder BUT he still continued to score goals!
Also when RVN scores a goal outside of the box then we will have a chat about this again!

[Jameel]

Shearer may have a better record than all of them but thats only because he's played much more. If Henry/Ruud play until Shearer's age I am pretty sure they will have a better record.

In terms of sheer talent Cantona is miles ahead of Shearer. Yes, he underachieved due to early retirement, but had he played as much as Shearer his record would be phenomenal. Most pundits rate Cantona as one of the if not the greatest players in the premiership. To say he isn't great because of early retirement is wrong. He still had 5 great seasons at United. In my opinion, he is the greatest player to grace the premiership.

Zola as you say is a brilliant player. Just because he didn't score as many goals as Shearer does not mean he is not as good. Again, on natural talent Zola is quite ahead of Shearer. He could do anything with a football. The guy was a magician and didn't get the credit he deserved imo. He was a different kind of forward to Shearer. His job was to be a playmaker and create something for the team and thats why he didn't score as many goals.

[Uzi]

I believe that if Henry or RVN had played all their careers in the Premiership, then they would more than match Shearer's great record.

[Jameel]

I believe that if Henry or RVN had played all their careers in the Premiership, then they would more than match Shearer's great record.

Agree

[Geordie Ahmed]

First of all im not talking about TALENT here! im talking about who produced the goods!

re CANTONA, he would not have matched Shearers goal scoring record. i agree that Cantona is a superb player and could do things that Shearer could not BUT this thread is all about Strikers who score goals and unfortunately for Cantona whilst he is a great player, i would not class him as a great Striker (there is a distinct difference between the two)!
Also Cantona did not help himself by retiring that early, maybe fear of not being able to produce the goods resulted in that!

re ZOLA, i have agree that he is a brilliant player BUT like Cantona he was not a great Striker BUT was a GREAT Player. i agree that he didnt get the recognition he should have!


I believe that if Henry or RVN had played all their careers in the Premiership, then they would more than match Shearer's great record.

That is something we will have to wait and see!

My first point is that Shearer never played his whole career in the Premiership, his first 5 years were spent in the Old First division!

HENRY = This guy is brilliant and is a superb striker! however i think that when he gets older, if he loses his pace then he will lose a huge chunk of his game, he will not score as much goals! its for this reason why i think Shearer is brilliant, he lost his pac BUT he was clever enough to change his game but maintain his goal scoring, if Henry can do this when/if he loses his pace then all credit to him BUT that is something we have to wait and see!

RVN = similar to the above, i would like to see RVN play in the Prem at 34 and i would like to see how effective he is! he has a better chance than Henry of maintaining his goal scoring because his game does not rely on pace as much as Henry's does! RVN has also had the big advantage of playing with Giggs,Beckham,Scholes and Keane whilst at Man-utd which is bound to help a striker score goals! Sheare had to for a few years play with Gillespie,Barnes,Maric and other average players BUT he maintained his goal scoring!

Another point i would like to make is that whilst at Newcastle Shearer has suffered 2 career threatening injuries (after each losing more pace) BUT he recovered and continued to score goals!

HENRY has not suffered a big injury yet so it would be interesting to see if he did how he recovers from it (having said that i dont wish he does )

RVN to be fair suffered a bad injury a year before joining man-utd (resulted in his move to man-utd being delayed) and he recovered from that strongly!

I would like the above 2 players to continue playing til their mid 30's and it would be interesting to see how they, if at all, adapt their game to any possible pace loss!

[Toony™®]

if u add up all of shearers injuries he has missed 3 seasons. one at blackburn , 2 wid us.

Sheaere has scored every type of goal possible. RVN hasn't.

[Geordie Ahmed]

Exactly Toonboy! RVN if my memory serves me right hasnt scored a goal outside of the box

[Toony™®]

no..he hasnt unless the u count that dribbling one he scored against southampton.