Shearer’s Anger after ‘Blatant Elbow’

By Nick Raynor
October 27 2005

Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer was furious last night after he was elbowed by Grimsby’s Justin Whittle.

Shearer got back at him by scoring the winner in the 80^th minute to give Newcastle a 1-0 victory in the Carling Cup, but Shearer said ‘I just wanted to do him’.

 

The “challenge”, just 5 yards away from the referee, left Shearer bleeding, and in need of stitches, but the referee did nothing about it.

 

Shearer said:

 

"It would have been easy for me to have gone out there and stuck one on him because he did me out there,"

 

"That's what I wanted to do. He (Whittle) knows that he did me. The referee was only a few yards away, but he didn't do anything. I wanted to do him, but I got him back by scoring the winner.

 

"It's a hard game and you have to look after yourself out there. I have done that for years, but I have been caught tonight.

 

"The goal was the best way to get him back, no matter how much I wanted to do him. That's the coward's way. I'm still very angry."

 

Newcastle manager Graeme Souness was none too happy about the incident either.

 

Souness said:

 

"It was a very dangerous challenge which resulted in Alan having three stitches," said Souness, who challenged Halsey to consider his position having viewed a video of the incident.

 

"The challenge angered me, yes, most definitely. Should he have been sent off? Most certainly, yes. I would ask the referee to look at it on the TV and then see what he thinks.

 

"I have had the benefit of the replay and it was not a very good challenge. Alan is very angry and he is entitled to be."