Good piece in the Mail yesterday on Graham Carr, (Alan's dad), when he was Chief Scout at Newcastle. Alan Pardew was manager and wanted to bring this striker in,

"Alan had a new centre-forward in mind and the analyst was ready with the clips. I'd been brought up on Jackie Milburn and had watched Malcolm Macdonald and Alan Shearer, and there on the screen was Bradford striker Nahki Wells. I'm thinking 'F**cking hell", sometimes you have to think how the fans would react. That one never happened."