{"id":1018,"date":"2009-04-01T22:40:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T22:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2009-04-01T22:40:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T22:40:49","slug":"alan-shearer-the-mothership-has-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"Alan Shearer: The Mothership Has Landed"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I heard this on the news this morning I thought it was an April Fools Day joke, but Alan Shearer is<\/strong> to take over as Newcastle Utd manager until the end of the season.<\/p>\n

What makes me particularly smug is that I predicted this in September last year here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He has a hell of a task on his hands, and I’m surprised he has risked his reputation as God’s bigger brother (as the Geordies see him) on something which is quite likely to end up\u00a0with Newcastle being relegated. The team isn’t good enough, the board and fans expect too\u00a0much, and he isn’t tried and tested\u00a0at this level. The pressure on him and the team will be immense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I heard this on the news this morning I thought it was an April Fools Day joke, but Alan Shearer is to take over as Newcastle Utd manager until the end of the season. What makes me particularly smug is that I predicted this in September last year here and here. He has a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestposts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t