Shearer wanted by Blackburn
Alan Shearer is on the verge of a sensational retu
Alan Shearer is on the verge of a sensational return to football with Blackburn Rovers.
Just five months after being in the running to takeover at his home town club, big Al is being tipped to take the helms at another former club, Blackburn Rovers. After opening as the bookies third favourite behind Big Sam and Paul Ince, Shearer has been backed down to around 5/2 and is being widely linked with the job in the morning's newspapers.
Representatives of the club are set to fly-out to Austria, where Shearer is working as a pundit for the BBC at Euro 2008. They are in the hunt for a manager having lost Mark Hughes to Manchester City last week.
Shearer has long made it clear that he wants to go into management at some point. His dream is clearly to become Newcastle manager, however to take it as his first job would be a risk. He won the title with Blackburn under the leadership of Kenny Dalglish back in 1995.
With the BBC having lost the rights to any live top level football, Shearer only has Match of the Day to look forward to and he has been out of front line football for two years. He has one more year to run on his BBC contract but the corporation would be willing to let Shearer leave should he decide that this is the right job for him.
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