Why is alan shearer mary poppins

Shepherd, you feel, would have been right at home in such surroundings, sat next to a sweating, boozy Arthur Lowe and bellowing for a dance act named "Chocolate Sandwich".

Of his sacking of manager Sir Bobby Robson, Shepherd remarked: "It was the hardest decision of my life. I didn't want to be known as the man who shot Bambi". He once brushed off talk of a fight involving two players at an airport with the words, "We are all hommes du monde ", and said of the club's best player, "Alan Shearer is boring — we call him Mary Poppins.

Shepherd's most famous performance came in when he and his fellow Newcastle director, Douglas Hall, were the victims of a News of the World "Fake Sheikh" sting. After several drinks in what was apparently a Spanish brothel, Freddy infamously announced: "Newcastle girls are dogs.

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I played truant for 10 days. In the morning, I pretended to leave for school but went to town instead. In the early afternoon, I went into the cinema and sat through two showings until school was finished. I must have seen it 10 times, maybe 20! I know it'll make my French team-mates laugh to imagine their captain humming the songs of the divine Mary! Maybe they'll sing-along with me: 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious.

This all came about when Desailly was living in Nantes after moving with his family to France from his native Ghana. At the time, he was involved in the youth set-up of FC Nantes, for whom he would later make his professional debut. He added: "My mother brought me up the African way. According to her, a son should assume his own responsibilities early and have a level of maturity beyond his years.

Mum even let me buy my clothes alone, to the extent that she trusted me with a signed blank cheque.