Liv Golf Ace and Nottingham Forest -Fan Lee Westwood has come clean about the football reasons behind his ignoring of Newcastle Icon and BBC Pundit Alan Shearer
Lee Westwood has 'stopped' with Alan Shearer since Newcastle defeated his beloved Nottingham Forest -but a positive Premier League -Run -can change things.
The Liv Golf Star and Perennial European Tour winner was born in Nottinghamshire and has so far been treated to an incredible campaign by the men of Nuno Espirito Santo. Forest is currently at the top of the top and have a FA Cup semi -final against Manchester City on the Horizon.
They chase in the race for Champions League football are the magpies, supported by good friend and former player Shearer, who is in fifth place of them. This season, the side of Eddie Howe has improved from the Westwood team and beat them home and away in the competition, as well as on penalties in the League Cup. This has led to the living bait standing still on ex-England-Man Shearer, although Westwood has admitted that this will change if Forest is higher than Newcastle.
Ipswich Town visit St. James's Park on Saturday, which is a crucial match in the race for Top European Football. Westwood was adamelable about the former employers of his friend Shearer who get the job done while throwing some light on their relationship.
“I don't see Newcastle falling points, unfortunately for Forest,” admitted Westwood when he was asked about the run-in by BBC Sport. “I am good friends with Alan Shearer, but I have stopped for Forest since Newcastle has defeated us home and away in the competition this season.
“They defeated us on the way to also win the Carabao Cup, so I couldn't get it excited too much, but I will contact us if we end up above them.”
With four games left for one and five for others in the top flight this season, the Battle for Champions League football is as tight as possible.
Only four points separated city in third place and Aston Villa in seventh place, with Chelsea also contrary to taking one of the five places available for English clubs for the next term.
However, Westwood's Forest still has a competition on their agenda, because their FA Cup visit to Wembley to take the city gives them an impeccable opportunity for cutlery.
If they were the best Pep Guardiola and his team, a date in the final against Crystal Palace or Aston Villa, they must be defeated this season in the competition in the competition – and Westwood is convinced that his side can do the job.
“It will be difficult, but I think we can turn them around,” Westwood continued. “I say that not only because I am a forest fan, it is because we seem to have played against the better teams this season, those who come to us.
“I have seen the statistics about possession and we have the lowest average possession in the Premier League this season, and City has the highest, so they will have the ball and we will try to hit them during the break.
“We have already beat them this season, so we know it can work. One late escape would do the work, and that is the way we play.”
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