The decision to move Alan Shearer’s statue on to stadium land has been hailed as the ‘cherry on top of the cake’ by Tom Maley, the man who sculpted the tribute to the Newcastle United legend. Work is continuing to relocate the statue from Barrack Road to the steps of Gallowgate End next to the Sir Bobby Robson statue.
With the new plinth now in place, the delicate job of removing the statue from its current spot in under-way with scaffolding now put up around Shearer and drilling going onto free the sculpture from its foundations. Maley, who also created the Sir Bobby statue, was busy doing some upkeep on the Shearer when he spoke to Chronicle Live.
Asked if there was a sense of pride about the move, he said: “Very much so. It’s going exactly where I would have loved it to have gone in the first place. “This is a really great result - it’s a good move and it’s going to look so much better in its new place, and right next to Bobby as well.
