Newcastle United legend Alan Shearer is delighted for Arsenal skipper Robin van Persie over his amazing scoring form.

Shearer wrote in a column for The Sun: "Robin van Persie will take one of my records away from me before the end of the month.

"I'm pretty sure of that and I'll be the first to congratulate him.

"He will beat my total of 36 Premier League goals in a calendar year - a record, by the way, I was unaware of until it was mentioned to me on Match of the Day at the weekend.

"I set that mark back in 1995, when I was with Blackburn.

"But records are there to be broken and I can think of no better striker than the Dutchman to write his name in the history books."