Former Newcastle United midfielder Darren Ambrose has revealed a conversation with Alan Shearer in an Italian restaurant in Jesmond convinced him to sign for the Magpies. The then Ipswich Town youngster was not convinced after an original round of negotiations and looked set to return to Portman Road.
Sir Bobby Robson told the midfielder to get some food and return for negotiations, but it was a chance encounter with the Newcastle legend that convinced him to sign. Ambrose told talkSPORT: "When I first signed for Newcastle, I wasn't going to. I was young and I kind of wanted to go back to Ipswich and Bobby Robson said 'Go out, get some dinner and then come back and we'll discuss again - negotiate.'
"I went to an Italian restaurant in Jesmond in Newcastle. Alan Shearer walks in with a few people and introduces himself. I'm thinking 'blimey Alan Shearer, he obviously knows who I am.'
