Alan Shearer reveals lucrative side hustle alongside punditry and Newcastle legend got his friend a job within company
ALAN SHEARER has revealed he owns shares in a fitness company and secured Newcastle’s former team doctor a job at the organisation after the pair were sacked.
Newcastle‘s all-time record scorer Shearer, 53, took over as manager of the Toon in April 2009 as he looked to save them from relegation.
After taking the job, he brought in ex-Newcastle team doctor Paul Ferris, 58, as the pair had a strong relationship from Shearer’s time as a player.
But less than two months later the Magpies icon was axed after Newcastle were relegated from the Premier League.
And Ferris, who had given up becoming a lawyer to take on the role, was also given the boot.
But Shearer ended up making amends by getting Ferris a job at Speedflex – a company he part-owns which “offers safe and effective, high intensity but low impact HIIT training in a variety of formats”.
Speaking on The Rest Is Football podcast, Shearer, who is also a successful football pundit, said: “I’ve got a share in a company called Speedflex, a fitness concept machine.
“A good friend of mine who was the physio at Newcastle United, Paul Ferris, left many years ago and decided he wanted to be a lawyer.
“He went right into it, did six years and was about two or three months off completing his course and becoming a lawyer – he was actually ready to go onto the bar.
“I got the Newcastle job – and I liked him that much because I’d spent that much time with him with my injuries – that I asked him to come into Newcastle with me as the head of the medical department.
“He had a huge decision to make, he was six weeks away from completing his six-year course and he left it and came in with me to Newcastle.
“Of course, he came in for two months and that was it (they were sacked) – he couldn’t go back.
“Then my friend was looking for somebody to help him with the company Speedflex and I asked him (Ferris) to go over to America. So he is now chief executive of the company Speedflex.
“So I managed to get him back in, otherwise I’d have felt so guilty.”
On the Speedflex website, Shearer is pictured using the company’s equipment.
Former Manchester United, Coventry, Aston Villa and Leicester striker Dion Dublin is also on the site, alongside presenter Ben Shephard.