5. Alan Shearer vs Ruud Gullit
Usually in incidents like these it’s the managers that come out on top – but not this time. When he took the reins at St James’ Park, former Dutch international Ruud Gullit wanted to play what he called ‘sexy football’. However, things didn’t quite work out that way, and in a desperate attempt to change things up Gullit dropped Shearer for the home game against arch-rivals Sunderland. This understandably, did not go well and Gullit was soon ushered out of the job. Years later Gullit would remark that Shearer was the most overrated player he’d ever seen.