TITLE-WINNING Blackburn Rovers striker Alan Shearer will be presented with an honorary degree by his home city today.
The ex-England captain is being bestowed with the title of Doctor of Civil Law at a ceremony at Newcastle University.
Shearer, 39, is the record scorer for Newcastle, whom he went on to manage briefly last year before their relegation from the Barclays Premier League.
Since then he has become a patron of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation which fights cancer and is a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland.
The presentation coincides with the official inauguration of Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson as the new Chancellor of the university.
This will not be the first time Shearer has donned a mortar board and gown as he was presented with an honorary degree from Northumbria University three years ago.
Afterwards, he wished his school teachers could see him, admitting: “I wasn’t the brightest pupil in school.”
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