In the second part of his chat with BBC Radio Newcastle looking back on breaking Jackie Milburn's all-time Newcastle scoring record 20 years on, Alan Shearer recalls the moment the ball hit the net and the feeling this gave him.
The Magpies led Portsmouth 1-0 through a Charles N'Zogbia effort on 41 minutes, before Shearer ran ontoShola Ameobi's backheel to fire past Dean Kiely.
"I remember that Shay [Given] kicks the ball, I flick it on into Shola [Ameobi] and sort of turn and swivel in the hope that he might be able to flick it into my path and he did just that," he recalled.
"It was a perfect little flick from Shola so then the rest was up to me. I had to get across the defender, who was Andy O'Brien actually who of course used to play for Newcastle, and then the goal is there and my eyes light up.
"It just happened so quickly to think 'God, this is this could be it'.
"It was just a matter of just get it in and worry about what happens afterwards but then once I got the connection, once I've seen it go under the goalkeeper then that was it.
"The relief, the feeling of joy and everything else, the emotion for all of those reasons that I've mentioned.
"Jackie Milburn was my dad's hero and still is to this day and people talk about Jackie, how great he was, everything he meant to the football club and how long the record had stood for.
"Then me being from Newcastle and doing it at the Gallowgate End just felt right.
"I can't remember ever having a feeling like that on a football pitch in all my years when I saw and felt the ball hit the back of the net.
"It was one of those moments where I wish I could have bottled that feeling because of the crowd noise, the excitement, the adrenaline. I've never had a hit like that to be honest.
"I've scored some pretty important goals in my time but I just think because of the build up, because of the enormity of it in Newcastle, and because of me being from Gosforth and my mum and dad being there it was just an unbelievable feeling – one of the best I've ever had on a football pitch.
"I used to stand and watch my hero Kevin Keegan and I remember all those years ago when he made his debut in 1982 when I was 11. From that day I wanted to understand what that felt like.
"I had that feeling lots of times but none of them ever felt like that did that afternoon."
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