Alan Shearer has found himself in trouble with Gareth Southgate's wife after filming wildfires near the England manager's holiday home in Portugal. The Newcastle United FC legend and former England star recorded a video on Wednesday, in awe as terrifying fires swept through the Algarve region.
The former England striker says in the video: “This is unbelievable, I’ve never seen anything like this. Look at it... this is the roundabout near Gareth Southgate’s house. Someone needs to get here quick.”
Southgate's wife Alison, 55, arrived at their holiday home in the sun on Saturday, following a week of wildfires nearby. Gareth is also believed to be visiting with her, The Mirror reports.
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However, she now has a grudge with Shearer, after being mentioned in his videos last week and the location of their holiday home being given away. She said: “He’s a pain in the a*** and I’ll be having a word with him.”
She added on Saturday of the fires: “We weren’t here, we’ve only just got here. We’re good.”
The fires ravaged land so close to the couple's home abroad, that their adjacent neighbours had to be evacuated on Wednesday for their own safety. Hours after the couple arrived, firefighters descended on a blaze a mere 100 yards from their back yard.
Five engines lined the road leading to the home itself, with one stationed on the golf course behind as crews extinguished a small blaze on land already scorched earlier in the week. There are huge swathes of blackened and charred land now leading up to Southgate's pad.
One firefighter told the Mirror: “We have to be constantly aware as the fires can start again so quickly with this heat and wind.”
But Shearer’s video helped one English couple realise the severity of the blaze. From their home in Surrey, the pair had watched via cameras in their Algarve house as the fires grew closer to their multi-million pound pad, which is next to where Newcastle legend Shearer filmed.
But they had not realised the severity until they saw his video circulating on Twitter. “I saw Shearer’s video and I realised just how bad it was,” said the woman, speaking over her intercom from Surrey to the Mirror.
“They were my trees on fire. It was absolutely horrific. We should not have a house standing any more. I will be personally taking a gift to the firefighters when I arrive this week to assess the damage.”
Firefighters yesterday battled huge wildfires in Spain, Greece and France, where thousands have been evacuated. Spain’s National weather agency issued high temperature warnings, with highs of 42C yesterday forecast in some northern areas.
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