SHEARER: We Deserve Our Low League Position

By Matthew Jones
September 1 2003

Skipper Alan Shearer has blamed his Magpies' teammates for Newcastle's low Premiership League position and the Champions League exit.

Newcastle United skipper Alan Shearer has admitted that The Magpies' Champions League exit and their low-league position (3rd from Bottom) is well deserved.

Shearer has urged his United teammates to start showing "some bottle" after he is disappointed with the start to the season.

Alan Shearer is blaming the players for the bad start to the season, and said: "People are looking for excuses - reasons why things have gone wrong - but the simple answer is that we're not playing well as a team.

"It was a rotten and very difficult week, but we have not played well and we have got what we deserve.

"We have all got to be strong enough to admit it and show the character to say. We have got to show some bottle. We can't allow any outside interference to affect us.

"We've got to stick together and I'm sure we'll get it right. We've got a very demanding public here, but that's the way it has always been.

"We coped with their demands when things were going well and we'll cope with them now that things aren't going so well."

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