Shearer Says "Good Bye"

World football heads up to a new age. And there's nothing unusual with that, since moving on is the nature of all things. What's devastating is the things that happen as a consequence of this process.

After great champion Zinedine Zidane played his last game on a full Bernabeu Stadium, and after Roy Keane burst into tears at his last game in front of a 70.000 crowd, another football legend makes his final appearance on the field. Alan Shearer will say good-bye in front of his home fans, against Celtic Glasgow, in an exhibition game.

Injured for the rest of the season in a Premiership match, Shearer decided to put an end to his football carrier. Fighting with this decision for the past 3 years, he finally says "good-bye" to the sport that turned him into an idol in England, but especially in Newcastle.

"I have to say my first game here against Wimbledon was special because I achieved something that I always wanted to do, which was play here, score a goal here and wear the number nine shirt", said Shearer a few weeks ago. Never in the media eye for his love affairs or bad publicity, Shearer's only way of making himself heard was on the football field, doing what he does best: scoring goals.

He broke a lot of records in the Premiership and most of them probably won't be reached ever again. He became the club's best scorer of all times after breaking the 200 goal record of legendary Jakie Milburn. "But I think the thing that will stick with me forever will be the reception after I got the record goal, the 201st against Portsmouth. The feeling when I score a goal is fantastic, but that day they lifted the roof off for me. There was a spell of about 10 minutes after I'd scored when they were still going crazy".

England will most certainly lose a great player and a name that will always remain in the history books. The earthquake that will go under way tonight will probably see Shearer score his last goal in the world of football. And even if he doesn't, it will be a great way to leave the football field anyways.