Cash not the issue as Shearer battles to save Newcastle.

ALAN Shearer Alan Shearer OBE (born 13 August 1970 in Gosforth) is a retired professional English footballer who played as a striker for the England national team and Premiership clubs, Southampton, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United. is not even considering the financial cost of relegation from the Barclays Premier League as he attempts to drag Newcastle back from the brink Back from the Brink can refer to:

Back from the Brink an award winning autobiography by Paul McGrath, an Irish footballer.
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of disaster.

The 38-year-old, who answered his hometown club's SOS SOS, code letters of the international distress signal. The signal is expressed in International Morse code as … — — — … (three dots, three dashes, three dots). call with just eight games of a traumatic season remaining, will send his team out at Aston Villa tomorrow praying they can get a better result than Hull do at home to Manchester United to save themselves.

Varying estimates suggest the cost of going down to be from pounds 35m to pounds 65m.

However, money will be the last thing on Shearer's mind as he seeks to preserve Newcastle's status and restore some pride.

He said: "I am not interested in the cash implications. I am not important in this, What is important is the club."

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Publication:	South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Date:	May 23, 2009
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