Ruud Gullit has revealed even Alan Shearer's wife questioned how the pair were able to bury their long-standing animosity from their infamous Newcastle United fall-out. The Dutchman benched the legendary number nine for a derby defeat to Sunderland at St James' Park in August 1999, resigning three days' later.
Shearer has since admitted that a Magpies victory over the Black Cats would have likely seen him leave his boyhood club just three years' after completing a world-record transfer to come home. Gullit had led the club to an FA Cup final in his first season in charge, but the conflict with the striker came in the final days of his reign at St James' Park.
The duo have since worked together on punditry duties, including for ITV at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Gullit and Shearer were 'laughing and joking' together at a party one night when the goalscorer's wife Lainya could not hide her disbelief and how the pair had reconciled following such a bitter fall-out.
