Dowie Is the Brawn to Shearer's Brains ; Newcastle's New No2 Will Take the Role of Training Ground Enforcer While His New Boss Is Busy Plotting the Toon's Survival, Says Simon Rushworth [Edition 3]

Evening Standard - London › April 04, 2009

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ASKING Iain Dowie to help lead Newcastle United to safety this season may yet prove to be one of the more intriguing decisions Alan Shearer makes during his eight-game reign at his hometown club.

In 2006 the then Charlton Athletic boss couldn't even lead his players to St James's Park as the entire Addicks squad found themselves stranded on the mean streets of Tyneside.

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Dowie Is the Brawn to Shearer's Brains ; Newcastle's New No2 Will Take the Role of Training Ground Enforcer While His New Boss Is Busy Plotting the Toon's Survival, Says Simon Rushworth [Edition 3]

In typically eccentric fashion, Dowie had taken his team on the road to nowhere during a pre-match jog and a fleet of Geordie cabbies was hastily called in to rescue the Londoners from the side o...

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