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Blackpool boss Holloway tells Shearer: You really hurt Adam

Blackpool boss Ian Holloway refuses to back down over his row with Alan Shearer.

The England legend angered Holloway when criticising Charlie Adam last week.

Ollie told the Independent on Sunday: "Alan Shearer and I probably won't be going for a pint any time soon but I felt I had to speak out after his comments about my captain.

"Alan said on Match of the Day that he hoped Charlie Adam's chance had not passed him by. He made that comment after one game, where Charlie admittedly didn't play at his best.

"But how unfair is that about a 25-year-old lad who has just had the season of his life? Charlie actually came to me and said 'do you think I'm washed up?' That's how upset he was.

"Alan is in a position of great importance. He is on Saturday primetime television on one of the best football programmes there has ever been and is ever likely to be.

"I thought he made a silly, throwaway comment and he should know better. Charlie is destined for great things - one mediocre game doesn't alter that."

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