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Of course this can work against you

It seemed about everyone thought the news about Alan Shearer was a spoof, so much so that it made it onto a list of "spoofs that aren't" on the BBC news website

5. Alan Shearer is manager of Newcastle United. Despite repeatedly being linked with the post in the past and resisting the temptation to leave the BBC's Match of the Day comfy sofa, the Toon footballing hero finally returns. But if Kevin Keegan was touted as the new Messiah, it's not clear what further superlatives can be used to describe the coming of the city's prodigal son.

Our minister at church was describing how he got engaged to his now wife on a 31 March and waited two days to email people. Even then they all though he was doing an April fool joke