Alan Shearer comments on a possible Newcastle return for Craig Bellamy : "Has no-one learned their lesson about signing him? If only Rafa Benitez had rung me I would have told him exactly what he was like.

"Shearer added: "I was having a few days away in France with my former Newcastle team-mates Gary Speed and Steve Harper and the wives and I picked up the newspaper. I was having a fantastic day.

"But when I read Bellamy for Newcastle I thought I would definitely have to have another drink. I had several.