A ‘petrified’ Alan Shearer left everyone in stitches as he admits that he hid from Sunderland fans for four hours on a packed out train.
The 54 year old discovered the train travelling from London to Newcastle was crowded, and in this particular carriage, he was surrounded by Sunderland supporters in high spirits after witnessing their team secure a 3-1 Championship win at Portsmouth on Saturday.
Shearer had been on the train returning north after arriving at Heathrow from a friend’s wedding in Perugia, Italy.
But due to the train’s late schedule, he couldn’t get a seat in first class and had no choice but to instead hide himself from fans.
🗣️ @AlanShearer: “The #SAFC fans just sang and abused me for nearly 4 hours”
Fair to say Alan had the journey back to Newcastle from hell 🤣 pic.twitter.com/f00aJjzp7I
— The Rest Is Football (@RestIsFootball) September 2, 2024
Shearer said on The Rest Is Football: “So for all you Sunderland fans travelling back on coach C, fuck you!
“I was at a friend’s wedding in Italy in Perugia. And we came back on the flight on Saturday and we had to wait in the lounge for about four and a half hours before the flight up to Newcastle.
“We’d been sat there for three and a bit hours and Ii comes up on the board ‘Flight to Newcastle, 625, cancelled’. Oh, I was. honestly, I was absolutely fucking raging.
“So we got a friend, we look on the website at LNER to get the train back from Kings Cross and there’s no trains. All fully booked.
“And then one train becomes available at 7:30. So we’ve got 90 minutes to get from Heathrow to King’s Cross. So we get on the. We get on the Heathrow Express, we then get off at Paddington. We get on the tube from Paddington to Kings Cross. Oh, my God. Honestly.
“And there was a lovely lady from LNER, my friend Peter. His wife had a contact and she was waiting for us. She said, there’s hardly any seats spare on the train, but I’ll do my very best to you. I can’t guarantee anything. She met us at King’s Cross and bless her, she got us. She got us enough seats, but there was no boot. She got us onto the carriage. She said, it’s going to be really, really busy. I said, oh, really? She said, because this is the only train. There’s one train on a Saturday night.
“So she said, unfortunately, there’s going to be a lot of football fans on. So I’m sat. I said, well, okay, at least I’m on the train. So when. And I’m not in first class, we’re In coach C. And I look at, I think, oh, my fucking God. Sunderland have played Portsmouth away. So I’ve got my cap on and I’m wedged in the corner on coach C, the first seat.
“And on they come and it’s getting busier and busier and there’s not one seat spare. The whole of the aisle Is taken up with Sunderland fans singing, pissed, they’ve all come in with their bottles of beer and their bags of whatever, whatever they’ve got, because there’s no service. They wait within half an hour.
“I can’t even lift my head up. I’m scared to lift my head up because I think it’s just full of them because they’re all in great mood. Their team’s won and they start singing the Newcastle songs, then they start singing the Shearer songs. Shearer, oh what can it mean to a sad Geordie… whatever it is. I can’t even sing the other song that they were going to sing. I had nearly 4 hours. My neck is killing me today. I couldn’t lift my neck up. I had my head down for nearly 4 hours. I was petrified.
“I got all the way to Newcastle and I’m thinking please they’re going to get… please let them all get off at Durham. Half of them got off at Durham but half of them stayed on to Newcastle. And I was petrified getting office off the station.
“There was not one person recognised me. I didn’t move at all for nearly 4 hours and I never got spotted once. And they just sang and abused me for nearly 4 hours. They didn’t even know I was on the train.
“My friend Peter said to me Al why don’t you go and walk through the middle of them and ask them if they want a drink? So my Saturday was sat on a train for 4 hours on tubes, Heathrow express, on flights. It was an absolute nightmare. So for all you Sunderland fans travelling back on coach C, fuck you!”
There was plenty of reaction online as a ‘petrified’ Alan Shearer admits he hid from Sunderland fans for four hours on a packed train…
@mickroper81: To be honest, if they knew he was on there it would have all been in good spirits! I very much doubt he would have got any real aggro! Maybe just a few more renditions of some classics
@JamieArm2003: At least he took it well 😂🤣
@TomWilcock8: 😄 fair play
@nicola_cookson: The end comment ….. 😂😂😂😂😂
@Craig_Miller89: Good craic 🤣🤣🤣
@runmcleod: Absolutely brilliant 🤣🤣🤣
@colinmitchell: As if you couldn’t love @alanshearer any more man! 😂🖤🤍 #NUFC #NUFCFans
@SAFCBible1879: Shame nobody recognised him 🤣
@GILESY1973: Coach C 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😂😂
@SensibleSAFC: Shearer on the train back with #SAFC fans after the win at the weekend…
@GlenHargrave19: What a belter 🤣🤣
@SAFC_CallumR: 🤣🤣🤣 sunlun are massive everywhere they go…
@alipatta25: That’s hilarious 🤣 poor Alan! 🖤🤍🖤🤍
@profRoys: Brilliant story, Alan! Just imagine if we’d lost…… #safc
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