Peter Shearer

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Peter Shearer
Personal information
Full name Peter Andrew Shearer [1]
Date of birth (1967-02-04) 4 February 1967 (age 57)
Place of birth Birmingham, England
Position(s) Forward / Midfielder
Youth career
Coventry City
1983–1985 Birmingham City
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1985–1986 Birmingham City 4 (0)
1986 Rochdale 1 (0)
1986–1988 Nuneaton Borough
1988–1989 Cheltenham Town
1989–1994 AFC Bournemouth 85 (10)
1994–1996 Birmingham City 25 (7)
1997–1998 Peterborough United 0 (0)
International career
– England National Game 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Peter Andrew Shearer (born 4 February 1967) is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward or midfielder for a number of teams in the lower divisions of the Football League in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Club career

Shearer was born in Birmingham, and began his football career as a schoolboy with Coventry City. When he left school in 1983 he joined Birmingham City as an apprentice, and signed professional forms two years later. [2] He made his first-team debut as a 17-year-old, on 3 November 1984, as a substitute in a goalless draw at home to Shrewsbury Town in the Football League Second Division. He played four more first-team games that season, at the end of which Birmingham were promoted to the top flight, [3] but made no further appearances, and in April 1986, he was one of several players released with the club in financial difficulties. [4]

Moving on to Rochdale of the Third Division, [5] Shearer played only one league game [6] before dropping into non-league football six months later with Nuneaton Borough. [7] A year with Nuneaton and a successful spell with Cheltenham Town, [8] during which he was capped for the England's semi-professional representative side, [2] brought him an £18,000 move back to the Second Division with Harry Redknapp's AFC Bournemouth. [9] [10]

Shearer's form at Bournemouth impressed sufficiently for a £500,000 move to First Division club Wimbledon to be projected, but a knee injury spoilt his plans. In December 1992, after the player's return to fitness, Cheltenham manager Lindsay Parsons predicted that Shearer would "be a Premier League player in a month"; Cheltenham Town would receive a third of any fee paid to Bournemouth for such a sale. [11]

After trials with Coventry City and Dundee, [2] Barry Fry brought Shearer back to Birmingham in January 1994 for a fee of £50,000. [12] Initially he failed to settle, and was soon made available for transfer, but in the 1994–95 season he came into his own. He made a major contribution to the club's winning the Second Division title and the Football League Trophy both with his tenacity and his goalscoring [2] – ten years later, the Birmingham Evening Mail , discussing the young Darren Carter, suggested that "Blues have not had a player capable of scoring goals in that manner from central midfield since Peter Shearer". [13] An operation on his Achilles tendon prevented him playing in the last two games of the season, when the club clinched the title, [14] [15] and he never played for the club's first team again.

Shearer had a trial with Notts County in 1997 [16] before joining Peterborough United as player-coach. He played for Peterborough's reserve team, [17] but his only appearances for the first team were three outings as an unused substitute. [18] [19]

Honours

Birmingham City

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References

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  13. ↑ Tattum, Colin (30 December 2004). "Carter out to impress" . Birmingham Evening Mail. p. 70. Retrieved 21 July 2021– via Gale OneFile: News.
  14. ↑ "Birmingham City midfielder Peter Shearer is to have an Achilles tendon operation". The Independent. 1 May 1995. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2010– via Highbeam Research.
  15. ↑ Matthews, p. 230.
  16. ↑ "Forward thinking Cox sparks goal spree". Bolton Evening News. 21 July 1997. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  17. ↑ "End of United's nightmare". Oxford Times. 20 August 1998. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  18. ↑ Swann, Alan (24 January 2009). "S: Posh midfielder scored a hat-trick of penalties but we still lost". Peterborough Evening Telegraph. Retrieved 9 March 2009.
  19. ↑ "1997/98 Playing Records: Most Times as an Unused Substitute". UpThePosh.net. Retrieved 9 March 2009.
  20. ↑ Haylett, Trevor (24 April 1995). "Fry's delight as Carlisle succumb to sudden death". The Independent. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
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