The rout came on Bobby Robson’s home debut in charge of his hometown club, just his second game after taking over from Ruud Gullit earlier that month.
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Shearer’s five-goal haul remains one of the great individual scoring performances in Premier League history, and stands as the joint-record for the most goals scored by a single player in a Premier League match.
Newcastle’s win also doubled as one of the most emphatic in the club’s history, with Robson’s arrival immediately galvanising a side that had been struggling under Gullit before his departure.
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Shearer, the club’s record goalscorer and a boyhood Newcastle fan, would go on to become one of the defining figures of Robson’s five-year spell in charge.
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