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Kevin Keegan back as Newcastle boss

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Kevin Keegan back as Newcastle boss

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

..and the best of luck to him, he'll need it! From the BBC Sport website:

 
 
Jag2008-01-17 07:05:42

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
the word "interesting" doesn't really do it justice - the best I can come up with is that it's a - strangely predictable surprise

some quirky snippets in the article Jag...


"It's a great soap opera. Locally they will be in raptures but outside it the may well be bewilderment."

"Keegan, who was running his "Soccer Circus" football academy in Glasgow, quit his last job as a manager at Manchester City in March 2005.

He also walked away from Newcastle in 1997 and left the England job suddenly after losing to Germany in October 2000."


He was a great player and is certainly not boring as a manager, I guess we'll watch as it all  unfolds  (and hopefully not as it unravels)
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
It seems they want Shearer to be manager but feel he needs a mentor. The Keegan job is to deal with 2008, work alongside Shearer then let Shearer take over in 2009/2010.
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
...assuming Keegan lasts that long!

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
why oh why would he come back after seeing what they've done to his ex team?

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
He's barking mad - gets far too emotionally involved and then walks away when it turns to custard.  I can't recall a returning manager ever having more success second time around.  He will certainly liven things up.  It'll all end in tears though, mark my words. 
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I can see why he's got the job. They need a cheerleader rather than a manager, and he is certainly that.
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Jose's Dog wrote:
I can't recall a returning manager ever having more success second time around. 
 
Harry Redknapp?

Three for me, and two for them.

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Buffon II wrote:
Jose's Dog wrote:
I can't recall a returning manager ever having more success second time around. 
 
Harry Redknapp?
 

The legendary John Lambie. Even more success 3rd time round!!!  What do you mean you've never heard of him! 

 

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Kevin bloody Keegan aye. Who needs Home and Away when you've got Newcastle Unied!
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
The poison chalace has been passed on!
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
" o  dear me" the great kk a so whats he goinging to do this time get them to 3rd and say "sorry its not for me " i think they have just got him as a quick fix they needed some one a lot more stable than this man !!  he was a great player in is day and we will leave that there thanks!!! ps shut the door on the way out please!!!!
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
If they get to third and the league cup he'll go down as their greatest manager ever.. all that matters is a bloody trophy I think!
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Kevin "I'd love it if we beat them" Keegan will be eaten alive by the mind games of the Premier League.  Newcastle were total crap against Man U last weekend and are only six points above the drop zone.  Very silly appointment.  Maybe we need our Terminator X to sort out Shearer and then Newcastle can be a rational football club again...
Selhurst Park, 25 January 1995
What else could he have done?
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
i wonder who he will sign
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Have fun in the championship maggies.
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I think that newcastle fans will need to be patient
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