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Kevin Keegan has died aged 75.

Terrific player and athlete (remember well his performances on the TV program Superstars), and 2-time European Footballer of the Year in the late 70s.

His Newcastle team played good football under him as well.

RIP KK

 
Real Shame. Have fond memories of watching Keegan back in the '70's. Great little player and very passionate and who can forget his dust up with Billy Bremner in the Charity Shield against Leeds. Anyone who punches a dirty Leeds player deserves respect.

RIP KK.

 
Many moons ago I went to a charity event in Gourock where Kevin Keegan and Doddie Weir were the main attractions. Pair of them were first class lads. Utterly down to earth and self deprecating. Keegan ripped the piss out of himself for his Fergie rant and had time for absolutely everyone at the event regardless if they were putting their hand deep in their pocket for the charity or not.

Definitely one of the good guys and for us older fellas a reminder of the days when we didn't feel so utterly detached from the players on the pitch.

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Kevin Keegan trying to get to grips with Pat Nevin. Nov 1983.

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Keegan at Hamburg with whom he won the Bundesliga title in 1978-79.

Very sad news yesterday of the passing of Kevin Keegan.

One of the players ‘ I grew up with’ in the mid 1970s to mid 1980s.

R.I.P.

 
I think it says a lot that back in the early to mid '70's, me and my mates were all either Chelsea, West Ham, Fulham, Arsenal etc, yet when we were playing football in the playground or over the park, we all wanted to be Kevin Keegan.

Another of the good guys gone.

 
Always find it strange that hes hardly ever mentioned when people talk about legendary strikers, he won the ballon d`or twice i a row, an incredible achievement for any payer but even more so for an English player.

 
from The Athletic.

Kevin Keegan described managing Newcastle United as “riding the black and white tiger,” and it felt desperately appropriate; wild and euphoric, with an element of peril. The football was breathtaking, little triangles of neat passing which cut through teams, hunting in packs when the ball was forfeited. The city was transformed. It buzzed, it vibrated and hummed. On Saturdays, fans would queue outside for hours to get in. It is said that history is written by the victors, but Keegan’s Newcastle offers a different narrative. Everybody remembers them. Keegan deserves a statue, a stand named after him or some other kind of permanent memorial but in another way, it does not matter so much. Dreams are not fashioned out of concrete or steel or bronze and although he did not lay a brick or a foundation, Keegan and his team built St James’ Park.

@GeorgeCaulkin

 
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