Choosing the first 5 inductees into the Premier League Hall of Fame

#3 Alan Shearer

Alan Shearer Blackburn Rovers Premiership Champions 1995

The Premier League Hall of Fame will most likely be dominated by players from Chelsea, Arsenal, and Manchester United, and rightly so, as these teams dominated English football for the best part of three decades and housed the greatest players in the country. Alan Shearer, however, is one of the major exceptions to that norm.

Shearer makes this list simply because no single individual has scored more goals than the former English international in the history of the Premier League. Players such as Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Thierry Henry have come and gone, but no one comes close to Shearer's mind-blowing consistency in front of goal. The former Southampton player has scored 280 league goals in his career, out of which 260 came since the rebranding in 1992.

But perhaps Shearer's greatest achievement is not his goals, rather the historic 1994-95 season with Blackburn Rovers, in which he led the club to their first and only Premier League title. Since then, only Leicester City's crowning in 2016 can be compared to that historic feat over 25 years ago when the club snatched the league title from Manchester United on the final day. Shearer scored 34 goals that season in 42 games, a league record before the shift to a 38 game season.

The former Newcastle player's ability and consistency remain one of the most legendary tales of English football. It is hard to see anyone overtaking Shearer's tally of goals in the Premier League, and his name should be honoured amongst the greatest players ever.