Alan Shearer Breaks Twitter and Joins East 17

Twitter can be a ruthless environment when you’re deep in the sporting spotlight; just ask Lee Dixon. And as the turn of events proved last week – even if you’re the Premier League’s all-time leading scorer; an unforgiving fashion faux-pas does not make you immune to a good old social media shafting. Just ask former Toon and Blackburn Rovers (ok, and you too, Southampton) hit-man, turned menacingly-serious Match of the Day pundit, Alan Shearer.

Big Al was pitch side for Blyth Spartans’ David Vs Goliath FA Cup victory over Hartlepool on Friday, reporting for the BBC (before upsetting our very own Jeff Stelling) donning a questionable choice of jackets. Twitter went mental…

Just seen Alan Shearer’s jacket from the football last night. Hilare.

— David Jones (@daveyjayyy) December 6, 2014

I notice Lawro is jacket-less today. He must have seen the ribbing Shearer got last night! #@BBCSport #footballfocus — Craig Burke (@MancVsFood) December 6, 2014

Has Alan Shearer stolen that jacket from a 14 year old girl? Great look #shearerisachav #bbcfacup — James Ellis (@Jkellis2) December 5, 2014

The former England captain’s choice of chav parka screamed of nostalgia, which was hard to pinpoint; until this voice of Twitter reason piped up…

Alan Shearer about to drop a 2014 cover of ‘Stay Another Day’ by East 17. #ChristmasNo1pic.twitter.com/JnR6iv4fSo

— Limpar33 (@Limpar33) December 5, 2014

Shearer is rumoured to be joining Brian Harvey and the crew for an all-star attack on another christmas number one. Luckily, we have privileged footage of Shearer’s vocals during this christmas classic…

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