Shearer hails spirit


By Matthew Jones
September 3 2002

Magpies skipper Alan Shearer has hailed the team spirit which gave Newcastle a marvellous point at Anfield on Monday. Magpies skipper Alan Shearer has hailed the team spirit which gave Newcastle a marvellous point at Anfield on Monday.

Shearer scored the last-gasp equaliser in the 2-2 draw which completed a rousing fightback from 2-0 down with 10 minutes left. And Shearer declared afterwards that United's greatest quality is that the players never know when they are beaten.
"There's a great spirit in this side," said the England legend.

"We never stop trying and never stop running. We showed last year that we have a never-say-die attitude which got us back into games that we looked likely to lose.

"We did the same against Liverpool when it perhaps looked over."

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