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Article: FOOTBALL: Shearer escapes the jam jar

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October 14, 1996
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Derby County 0 Newcastle United 1

For all but a few fateful seconds, Paul McGrath rolled back the years to blot out Alan Shearer. When shadowing Newcastle's pounds 15m man, alas, a partial eclipse is seldom sufficient.

At nearly 37, with his wild days behind him, Derby's veteran debutant was the chief rival to Peter Beardsley, 35, for the accolade of man of the match. But with time ebbing away, Shearer slipped his marker after a free-kick. A fierce angled drive left him, to adapt Patrick Moore's terminology, over the moon. McGrath, he of the immaculate interception and the nonagenarian knees, arrived at the Baseball Ground from Aston Villa last week. He felt he needed first-team football in ...

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