LoveItIfWeBeatU Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/6207010.stm Football legend receives degree Football legend Alan Shearer has been awarded an honorary degree by Northumbria University. The former Newcastle United and England star received the Doctorate of Civil Law at a ceremony at Newcastle's City Hall on Monday. The 36-year-old first hit the headlines in April 1988 when he scored a hat-trick against Arsenal in his full debut for Southampton. He said receiving the degree was a "wonderful accolade." His career went from strength to strength with a record breaking transfer to Blackburn Rovers and he was instrumental in Rovers clinching the Premier League title in 1995. 'Lucky youngster' Shearer's skills were also sought after by clubs all over the world, but his final move was another record breaking £15m transfer to Newcastle United - the club he had supported when he was growing up in Gosforth. During his career, he was also the top Premier League scorer in three successive seasons and the only player in history to score more than 100 goals for two different clubs. Vice chancellor at the university, Professor Kel Fidler, said: "Throughout his career Alan Shearer has been hard-working, committed, disciplined and focused in his endeavours, fighting back from career-threatening injuries with great determination and courage." Shearer said: "This is a wonderful accolade and collecting the honorary degree was a proud moment for me and for my family. "I was lucky as a youngster to get a lot of great support and I understand how important it can be if you want to develop and excel in a sporting career." Comedy writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais creators of The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, also received honorary degrees at the same ceremony. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doctorate of Civil Law? They should have given him an honorary degree in something more relevant like Physics. At least you could say Shearer practiced Physics in his job - Apply force to the football at point X, the ball accelerates, etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Village Idiot Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Dammit he just gave me an idea, since I'm more likely to get 30 goals a season in the premiership than getting my doctorate done in the regular way blueupset.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley17 Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 I saw him leaving the City Hall on my way out of Uni today Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
womblemaster Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 these hons degrees are such a joke. doc of law??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire Mag Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Looks like he is ready to come into management sometime soon............................ Wonder who it will be with.....................? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 As much as I love Shearer what is the point in this "degree" ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire Mag Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 So he can be a manager, all managers have to have a 'degree' of some kind to manage, I think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ridzuan Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Its unbelievable that he has managed to achieve such award considering he has a poor record when he was still schooling.But Im not against him,instead Im happy for him.This proves that even though you dont perform well in school,it doesnt mean you cant achieve great things in the future.Well done Alan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nufc_geordie Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Doctorate of Civil Law? They should have given him an honorary degree in something more relevant like Physics. At least you could say Shearer practiced Physics in his job - Apply force to the football at point X, the ball accelerates, etc. I am currently studying for my Doctrate in Physics. Nothing against Shearer, but I disagree with the total concept of honourary degrees. People like myself and many others graft their arses off schooling for years and years whilst these guys become world superstars, then when they finish they get a degree or doctrate for doing bot all. Poor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire Mag Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Does no-one read my posts or something, its not like he is just going to walk into a job where he can apply his degree is it? ALL MANAGERS NEED A HNOURARY DEGREE TO BECOME A PREMIERSHIP MANAGER AND FINISH OFF THERE FA/UEFA COURSE!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UV Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 It's only a degree from the poly though, they're not worth the paper they're written on anyway. It's not like it's from a real university or anything. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Does no-one read my posts or something, its not like he is just going to walk into a job where he can apply his degree is it? ALL MANAGERS NEED A HNOURARY DEGREE TO BECOME A PREMIERSHIP MANAGER AND FINISH OFF THERE FA/UEFA COURSE!!! Sounds like bollocks to me, so your saying you need a degree before you can take the UEFA/FA course? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooneyToonArmy Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Doctorate of Civil Law? They should have given him an honorary degree in something more relevant like Physics. At least you could say Shearer practiced Physics in his job - Apply force to the football at point X, the ball accelerates, etc. I am currently studying for my Doctrate in Physics. Nothing against Shearer, but I disagree with the total concept of honourary degrees. People like myself and many others graft their arses off schooling for years and years whilst these guys become world superstars, then when they finish they get a degree or doctrate for doing bot all. Poor. totally agree. Didn't McLaren get something similar from the Smoggie Uni as well? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire Mag Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Does no-one read my posts or something, its not like he is just going to walk into a job where he can apply his degree is it? ALL MANAGERS NEED A HNOURARY DEGREE TO BECOME A PREMIERSHIP MANAGER AND FINISH OFF THERE FA/UEFA COURSE!!! Sounds like bollocks to me, so your saying you need a degree before you can take the UEFA/FA course? To complete the course you need a degree of some sort. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveItIfWeBeatU Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Doctorate of Civil Law? They should have given him an honorary degree in something more relevant like Physics. At least you could say Shearer practiced Physics in his job - Apply force to the football at point X, the ball accelerates, etc. I am currently studying for my Doctrate in Physics. Nothing against Shearer, but I disagree with the total concept of honourary degrees. People like myself and many others graft their arses off schooling for years and years whilst these guys become world superstars, then when they finish they get a degree or doctrate for doing bot all. Poor. I was joking about the Physics degree. As others have said it is an Honorary degree. It's not like he could go and get a job with it (not that he needs to). Honorary is a nice way of saying 'pretend'. Honorary degrees are just something Universities dish out to famous people to get some free publicity for themselves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Sounds like a load of bollocks that like CM, why would you need a degree to be a football manager? Got any kind of document to back this up? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keefaz Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Does no-one read my posts or something, its not like he is just going to walk into a job where he can apply his degree is it? ALL MANAGERS NEED A HNOURARY DEGREE TO BECOME A PREMIERSHIP MANAGER AND FINISH OFF THERE FA/UEFA COURSE!!! Sounds like bollocks to me, so your saying you need a degree before you can take the UEFA/FA course? To complete the course you need a degree of some sort. Christ. I hope you're joking. I've never heard such a load of bollocks in all my days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Glad im not the only one who thought it sounded like bollocks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Morph Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Does no-one read my posts or something, its not like he is just going to walk into a job where he can apply his degree is it? ALL MANAGERS NEED A HNOURARY DEGREE TO BECOME A PREMIERSHIP MANAGER AND FINISH OFF THERE FA/UEFA COURSE!!! Sounds like bollocks to me, so your saying you need a degree before you can take the UEFA/FA course? To complete the course you need a degree of some sort. Christ. I hope you're joking. I've never heard such a load of bollocks in all my days. Bollocks. I'm pretty sure Southgate hasn't got one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest smoggeordie Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Good bit of publicity for Northumbria College. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
indi Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Honorary degrees mean nothing, it's just a gong basically, he can't go and start up his own legal practice or anything. As for needing a degree to be a manager, that's definitely true. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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