BBC Sport published an interview with Alan Shearer in which he discussed his Premier League scoring record, his ties to Newcastle, his brief spell in management and his media work. Shearer scored 260 Premier League goals across his 14 years in the league.
Premier League record
Erling Haaland has netted 120 Premier League goals in four-and-a-bit seasons, while Harry Kane's Premier League total stopped at 213 after he left Tottenham Hotspur for Bayern Munich in 2023.
Shearer told the Football Interview: "I'm sure it will be broken one day, but I'll enjoy it while it lasts."
He added: "If we can get Haaland out to Real Madrid or somewhere like that in the next couple of years then it should be alright."
Leaving home and returning north
Shearer moved to Southampton aged 15. He said: "I wouldn't change anything - one of the best things I did was move away from home at 15."
He also said: "But when my kids got to 15 I thought 'how on earth did my parents let me leave home at that age?'"
Shearer said: "There's no way I could have let my my two girls and my son walk away from their home at 15 years of age."
He recalled: "I remember getting on the train at Newcastle Central station, looking at my mum and dad and the tears rolling down my mum's face when I was pulling out of the station and waving thinking, 'is this the last time I'm ever going to live back home?'"
Shearer moved closer to home in 1992 when he joined Blackburn Rovers and worked with Sir Kenny Dalglish. He won the Premier League title at Blackburn Rovers before returning to Newcastle in 1996.
He scored 206 goals in 405 appearances for Newcastle across all competitions.
Connection to Newcastle
Shearer said: "I saw the adulation that he had. He was like the pied piper in Newcastle , everyone followed him everywhere."
He added: "I was one of those little kids that went to the training ground, to the ground - and I wanted a piece of that."
On his walks to St James' Park, Shearer said: "My friend owns a pub in Newcastle called Harry's and I get dropped off outside the pub and then I walk up from the pub to the ground."
He said: "I've got a cap on and I very rarely look up because it would take me forever to get from the pub to the ground. But I often do it."
Shearer added: "They've done that all their life and I'm able to do that now and I love it."
Management and broadcasting
Shearer served as interim Newcastle manager in 2009 for the remaining eight games of the season, and Newcastle were relegated during his spell.
He said: " Newcastle were were in desperate trouble and I could never say no - we were bottom of the league, fighting for our lives."
Shearer added: "I should have known that when I signed the contract on April Fool's Day that it wasn't going to work out!"
He said: "I always felt that I was going to go into it again and I wanted to. I had a couple of interviews and got offered the job at Cardiff. And then things changed ... and I thought, 'what am I doing here?'"
Shearer is a regular pundit on Match of the Day, co-commentates on England games and appears on The Rest Is Football podcast with Gary Lineker and Micah Richards.
He said: "It is such a long day. For me travelling from Newcastle , it's a probably 19-20 hour day."
Shearer added: "What people don't realise is that you're meant to be at your brightest and your liveliest when you go on live at 10:30, whereas if you're watching football all day on the settee, you're ready to nod off at that time."
