It's KEEGAN

[Chaser 1054]

 

A tear to the eye & a crate of beer in the fridge!

 

 

looks bloody old & tired there!

[ohhh_yeah 2765]

not the best effort but hey...

 

[acrossthepond 703]

Maybe everyone has to get real for a moment. We need to realise that we aren't going to get a successful manager. Why the hell would he want to come here. Shit players, not filling the stdium any more and unrealistic tragets. Why do most of our fans think we have a right to win things just because we used to be a big club.

I think we should get Kevin Blackwell as manager - he did a good job at Leeds, Peter Reid is available too.

 

Lotbot's first post on this forum in the "Allardyce sacked" thread.

 

Love how you pretend to be one of us and suggest Monkey's Heed as a manager. Get lost you wannabe sticky toffee bastard, you're not even good enough to be a mackem.

[Bombadil 0]

Pleasantly surprised due to the thought of how close we got to Redknapp.

 

Now for Ashley to back him to the hilt with cash.

 

Not sure how much better Keegan is than Redknapp, tbh.

 

How about 100 times?

[Knackers 0]

 

is that FFS asking kev to put a good word in for him

[Toonraider 0]

 

A tear to the eye & a crate of beer in the fridge!

 

 

looks bloody old & tired there!

 

Yeah I agree, just when did KK get old? And he just has to ditch that coat he's wearing

[Big TRon 0]

It could only happen at this club and the daft thing is it will work. Already everyone else outside of Newcastle is talking about how Keegan never won anything which is totally missing the point!

 

This is Entertainment!

[The Fink! 0]

I think it's the right appointment given who was available. Keegan is a fantastic motivator loves the club so much and he's probably the only appointment where the fans won't get on the managers back. Yeah he may not be tactically astute but this is the guy who got Fulham and Man City back from the lower leagues into the Premier league and established as premiership outfits which isn't easy to do.

 

And look what he did for us first time round. He'll be backed by the board and the fans alike and the sheer amount of euphoria, energy and feel good factor he'll bring to the club will soon translate to the pitch when 52,000 people are chanting his name. We have the squad and now Keegan will get the fans backing him and the team to the hilt at SJP and our home form will improve tenfold as the confidence comes back.

 

Could you imagine if Redknapp had been appointed instead? The majority of fans would never have taken to him and that would have had an effect on the players just like it did with Allardyce. My mate in the Sir John Hall stand had supporters around him calling for Allardyce's head after three home games. At least Keegan will be given a fair crack of the whip and the players will be given a chance to show just how good they are with the pressure of the home fans off

[Tom 13844]

I think it's the right appointment given who was available. Keegan is a fantastic motivator loves the club so much and he's probably the only appointment where the fans won't get on the managers back. Yeah he may not be tactically astute but this is the guy who got Fulham and Man City back from the lower leagues into the Premier league and established as premiership outfits which isn't easy to do.

 

And look what he did for us first time round. He'll be backed by the board and the fans alike and the sheer amount of euphoria, energy and feel good factor he'll bring to the club will soon translate to the pitch when 52,000 people are chanting his name. We have the squad and now Keegan will get the fans backing him and the team to the hilt at SJP and our home form will improve tenfold as the confidence comes back.

 

Could you imagine if Redknapp had been appointed instead? The majority of fans would never have taken to him and that would have had an effect on the players just like it did with Allardyce. My mate in the Sir John Hall stand had supporters around him calling for Allardyce's head after three home games. At least Keegan will be given a fair crack of the whip and the players will be given a chance to show just how good they are with the pressure of the home fans off

 

 

Agree.

[ohhh_yeah 2765]

Ashley, a Geordie drunk on the past

 

 

All that's left now is for the people of Newcastle to join in a conga round St James' Park. The £250million Mike Ashley splurged on the Tyneside citadel turns out to be the bill for a giant knees-up.

 

There are two ways to go down the pan: you can surround yourself with experts and accountants to fight the decline or you can spark up a comic-strip cigar and send a champagne cork flying.

 

Geordie messiah: Kevin Keegan was a hero as a player

 

 

 

 

After several days of considering such astute and highly-qualified candidates as Mark Hughes, Gerard Houllier and Didier Deschamps, Ashley and his revellers elected instead to give it a proper lash.

 

From the outer reaches of the betting market (Kevin Keegan was 99-1) they summoned the wrong kind of Harry Redknapp, thus demonstrating that they were committed to Plan A all along. Any sceptics cannot say they were not warned.

 

The attempt to tease Redknapp away from Portsmouth told us Ashley wanted Newcastle to be winning BAFTAs for entertainment.

 

Then he said it himself, in a Sunday newspaper interview, describing 'a team that will go all out to try to give Chelsea a walloping, that will try to stuff Tottenham and that will be brave and bold enough to attack Manchester United' — rather than lose 6-0.

 

The owner has taken his replica shirt off now, but his soul is still trapped in the dockside nightclub where he stood the tab for a spectacular night of getting-to-know-you boozing.

 

Ashley went in a businessman and came out a Geordie, drunk on the past. He has bought the ticket.

 

The black and white stripes that run down him now could hardly be more pronounced if he lay in a sandwich toaster for a couple of days.

 

Yet, he picked the wrong populist gesture. If the convincing candidacy of Blackburn's Hughes was to be overlooked, why not reach into the future and appoint Alan Shearer?

 

Instead, the board thrust their hand into a foggy past, which was rich in almost child-like pleasures.

 

At the Old Vic of north-eastern football the neutral could observe a team of lustrous talent and sweeping ambition.

 

To see Peter Beardsley, Andy Cole, David Ginola, Tino Asprilla and Les Ferdinand in full flight was the greatest treat the young Premier League could serve up outside Old Trafford.

 

Keegan's Newcastle expressed the character of the town; vibrant, raucous, cavalier.

 

Visitors took the kind of beating that logic took yesterday when Ashley ignored Keegan's proven inability to marry joie de vivre with defensive rigour.

 

With Newcastle, England and Manchester City, Special K's romanticism broke on the rocks of tactical reality.

 

Manchester United and Arsenal are the two best teams in the country for reasons that stretch beyond Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney on one hand, and Cesc Fabregas and Emmanuel Adebayor on the other.

 

United's two centre halves are Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic.

 

Arsenal can call on William Gallas and Kolo Toure. Chelsea have John Terry and Ricardo Carvalho.

 

Keegan needs no fresh coal on the fire of his bitterness, but nothing will rile him more than the allegation that he only knows how to win games 4-3.

 

Certainly, his stewardship of England at Euro 2000 was a tableau of tactical disorder and squandered leads.

 

Nor will he easily escape the stigma of Newcastle impersonating Devon Loch in the 1995- 96 championship race, if only because it is imprinted in all our minds.

 

Newcastle have lost Sam Allardyce and gained Kevin Keegan. Oddly, all over the country yesterday, people obeyed an urge to laugh.

 

Not because Keegan is a joke. It's more because only Newcastle could call a 'Geordie messiah' down from a Soccer Circus to put things right.

 

When Keegan left Manchester City the game seemed to have swallowed him up. He disavowed the idea of returning to football management.

 

But he was always famously capricious; a man whose heart controlled his head, much like Ashley, we now discover.

 

Inconveniently, though, it is not 1995 any more. English football is no longer open to pillage by exuberance alone.

 

Arsenal, United and Chelsea are stronger than they were when exasperation drove Keegan from the Tyne 11 years ago. Aston Villa, Everton, Portsmouth, Manchester City and Hughes's Blackburn are blessed with qualities the new Newcastle boss will not be able to negate with Geordie song and a buccaneering approach.

 

Every expert who examines the Graeme Souness-Allardyce years agrees that this Newcastle side must be knocked down and rebuilt from a small core of 'reliables'.

 

The number of players who could need replacing runs to double figures. In mitigation, Keegan was always a good squad builder.

 

But his ceilings tended to be made of glass. There was always a thud when he banged his head.

 

Decadent, populist, champagneinfused, a wild gamble; Keegan's return is all those things.

 

It's theatre — which, in football these days, has run roughshod over logic.

[Jusoda Kid 1]

When I took the dog out tonight after the match finished all I could here was '1 Kevin Keegan' coming from the ground. I live in Heaton

[Dr Gloom 19822]

Ashley, a Geordie drunk on the past

 

 

All that's left now is for the people of Newcastle to join in a conga round St James' Park. The £250million Mike Ashley splurged on the Tyneside citadel turns out to be the bill for a giant knees-up.

 

There are two ways to go down the pan: you can surround yourself with experts and accountants to fight the decline or you can spark up a comic-strip cigar and send a champagne cork flying.

 

Geordie messiah: Kevin Keegan was a hero as a player

 

 

 

 

After several days of considering such astute and highly-qualified candidates as Mark Hughes, Gerard Houllier and Didier Deschamps, Ashley and his revellers elected instead to give it a proper lash.

 

From the outer reaches of the betting market (Kevin Keegan was 99-1) they summoned the wrong kind of Harry Redknapp, thus demonstrating that they were committed to Plan A all along. Any sceptics cannot say they were not warned.

 

The attempt to tease Redknapp away from Portsmouth told us Ashley wanted Newcastle to be winning BAFTAs for entertainment.

 

Then he said it himself, in a Sunday newspaper interview, describing 'a team that will go all out to try to give Chelsea a walloping, that will try to stuff Tottenham and that will be brave and bold enough to attack Manchester United' — rather than lose 6-0.

 

The owner has taken his replica shirt off now, but his soul is still trapped in the dockside nightclub where he stood the tab for a spectacular night of getting-to-know-you boozing.

 

Ashley went in a businessman and came out a Geordie, drunk on the past. He has bought the ticket.

 

The black and white stripes that run down him now could hardly be more pronounced if he lay in a sandwich toaster for a couple of days.

 

Yet, he picked the wrong populist gesture. If the convincing candidacy of Blackburn's Hughes was to be overlooked, why not reach into the future and appoint Alan Shearer?

 

Instead, the board thrust their hand into a foggy past, which was rich in almost child-like pleasures.

 

At the Old Vic of north-eastern football the neutral could observe a team of lustrous talent and sweeping ambition.

 

To see Peter Beardsley, Andy Cole, David Ginola, Tino Asprilla and Les Ferdinand in full flight was the greatest treat the young Premier League could serve up outside Old Trafford.

 

Keegan's Newcastle expressed the character of the town; vibrant, raucous, cavalier.

 

Visitors took the kind of beating that logic took yesterday when Ashley ignored Keegan's proven inability to marry joie de vivre with defensive rigour.

 

With Newcastle, England and Manchester City, Special K's romanticism broke on the rocks of tactical reality.

 

Manchester United and Arsenal are the two best teams in the country for reasons that stretch beyond Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney on one hand, and Cesc Fabregas and Emmanuel Adebayor on the other.

 

United's two centre halves are Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic.

 

Arsenal can call on William Gallas and Kolo Toure. Chelsea have John Terry and Ricardo Carvalho.

 

Keegan needs no fresh coal on the fire of his bitterness, but nothing will rile him more than the allegation that he only knows how to win games 4-3.

 

Certainly, his stewardship of England at Euro 2000 was a tableau of tactical disorder and squandered leads.

 

Nor will he easily escape the stigma of Newcastle impersonating Devon Loch in the 1995- 96 championship race, if only because it is imprinted in all our minds.

 

Newcastle have lost Sam Allardyce and gained Kevin Keegan. Oddly, all over the country yesterday, people obeyed an urge to laugh.

 

Not because Keegan is a joke. It's more because only Newcastle could call a 'Geordie messiah' down from a Soccer Circus to put things right.

 

When Keegan left Manchester City the game seemed to have swallowed him up. He disavowed the idea of returning to football management.

 

But he was always famously capricious; a man whose heart controlled his head, much like Ashley, we now discover.

 

Inconveniently, though, it is not 1995 any more. English football is no longer open to pillage by exuberance alone.

 

Arsenal, United and Chelsea are stronger than they were when exasperation drove Keegan from the Tyne 11 years ago. Aston Villa, Everton, Portsmouth, Manchester City and Hughes's Blackburn are blessed with qualities the new Newcastle boss will not be able to negate with Geordie song and a buccaneering approach.

 

Every expert who examines the Graeme Souness-Allardyce years agrees that this Newcastle side must be knocked down and rebuilt from a small core of 'reliables'.

 

The number of players who could need replacing runs to double figures. In mitigation, Keegan was always a good squad builder.

 

But his ceilings tended to be made of glass. There was always a thud when he banged his head.

 

Decadent, populist, champagneinfused, a wild gamble; Keegan's return is all those things.

 

It's theatre — which, in football these days, has run roughshod over logic.

 

nice piece. where's it from?

[Ketsbaia 0]

First I was stunned, then underwhelmed, then amazed, then a little more underwhelmed, then happy, then angry (this may have been down to David Craig and the mong brigade on SSN), then pissed, the more pissed, then very happy....then a bit tired.

 

One part of me is screaming "If this wasn't KK, you'd be up in arms over this appointment" but the other half of me is going mental.

 

KK seems to have done well at every club he's been given cash to throw around (Us, Fulham), plus he's one of the few managers who'll get time.

 

It may not be as romantic as the last time round but if he can get us into the top 6, he can walk away with his head held high. As much as i'd love him to win us a trophy i'm not sure he will.

[@yourservice 67]

Ashley, a Geordie drunk on the past

 

 

All that's left now is for the people of Newcastle to join in a conga round St James' Park. The £250million Mike Ashley splurged on the Tyneside citadel turns out to be the bill for a giant knees-up.

 

There are two ways to go down the pan: you can surround yourself with experts and accountants to fight the decline or you can spark up a comic-strip cigar and send a champagne cork flying.

 

Geordie messiah: Kevin Keegan was a hero as a player

 

 

 

 

After several days of considering such astute and highly-qualified candidates as Mark Hughes, Gerard Houllier and Didier Deschamps, Ashley and his revellers elected instead to give it a proper lash.

 

From the outer reaches of the betting market (Kevin Keegan was 99-1) they summoned the wrong kind of Harry Redknapp, thus demonstrating that they were committed to Plan A all along. Any sceptics cannot say they were not warned.

 

The attempt to tease Redknapp away from Portsmouth told us Ashley wanted Newcastle to be winning BAFTAs for entertainment.

 

Then he said it himself, in a Sunday newspaper interview, describing 'a team that will go all out to try to give Chelsea a walloping, that will try to stuff Tottenham and that will be brave and bold enough to attack Manchester United' — rather than lose 6-0.

 

The owner has taken his replica shirt off now, but his soul is still trapped in the dockside nightclub where he stood the tab for a spectacular night of getting-to-know-you boozing.

 

Ashley went in a businessman and came out a Geordie, drunk on the past. He has bought the ticket.

 

The black and white stripes that run down him now could hardly be more pronounced if he lay in a sandwich toaster for a couple of days.

 

Yet, he picked the wrong populist gesture. If the convincing candidacy of Blackburn's Hughes was to be overlooked, why not reach into the future and appoint Alan Shearer?

 

Instead, the board thrust their hand into a foggy past, which was rich in almost child-like pleasures.

 

At the Old Vic of north-eastern football the neutral could observe a team of lustrous talent and sweeping ambition.

 

To see Peter Beardsley, Andy Cole, David Ginola, Tino Asprilla and Les Ferdinand in full flight was the greatest treat the young Premier League could serve up outside Old Trafford.

 

Keegan's Newcastle expressed the character of the town; vibrant, raucous, cavalier.

 

Visitors took the kind of beating that logic took yesterday when Ashley ignored Keegan's proven inability to marry joie de vivre with defensive rigour.

 

With Newcastle, England and Manchester City, Special K's romanticism broke on the rocks of tactical reality.

 

Manchester United and Arsenal are the two best teams in the country for reasons that stretch beyond Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney on one hand, and Cesc Fabregas and Emmanuel Adebayor on the other.

 

United's two centre halves are Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic.

 

Arsenal can call on William Gallas and Kolo Toure. Chelsea have John Terry and Ricardo Carvalho.

 

Keegan needs no fresh coal on the fire of his bitterness, but nothing will rile him more than the allegation that he only knows how to win games 4-3.

 

Certainly, his stewardship of England at Euro 2000 was a tableau of tactical disorder and squandered leads.

 

Nor will he easily escape the stigma of Newcastle impersonating Devon Loch in the 1995- 96 championship race, if only because it is imprinted in all our minds.

 

Newcastle have lost Sam Allardyce and gained Kevin Keegan. Oddly, all over the country yesterday, people obeyed an urge to laugh.

 

Not because Keegan is a joke. It's more because only Newcastle could call a 'Geordie messiah' down from a Soccer Circus to put things right.

 

When Keegan left Manchester City the game seemed to have swallowed him up. He disavowed the idea of returning to football management.

 

But he was always famously capricious; a man whose heart controlled his head, much like Ashley, we now discover.

 

Inconveniently, though, it is not 1995 any more. English football is no longer open to pillage by exuberance alone.

 

Arsenal, United and Chelsea are stronger than they were when exasperation drove Keegan from the Tyne 11 years ago. Aston Villa, Everton, Portsmouth, Manchester City and Hughes's Blackburn are blessed with qualities the new Newcastle boss will not be able to negate with Geordie song and a buccaneering approach.

 

Every expert who examines the Graeme Souness-Allardyce years agrees that this Newcastle side must be knocked down and rebuilt from a small core of 'reliables'.

 

The number of players who could need replacing runs to double figures. In mitigation, Keegan was always a good squad builder.

 

But his ceilings tended to be made of glass. There was always a thud when he banged his head.

 

Decadent, populist, champagneinfused, a wild gamble; Keegan's return is all those things.

 

It's theatre — which, in football these days, has run roughshod over logic.

 

nice piece. where's it from?

 

Is it just me?Or is this taking the piss?

[ohhh_yeah 2765]

nice piece. where's it from?

 

 

 

dailymail

[Ketsbaia 0]

 

That jacket is going, and the perm is coming back

[Tribal 0]

Off to the Galleries tomorrow to get my hair into a curly perm.

[ohhh_yeah 2765]

interview with shay:

 

"The hairs stood up on the back of my neck," he told Sky Sports News.

 

"It gave everyone a huge lift before tonight's game.

 

"You dream like the fans dream that Kevin Keegan would come back and maybe Alan (Shearer) would come back as well.

 

"But until it was announced today, you thought it was just a dream.

 

"Everyone's pinching themselves around the north east tonight. The dream's come true.

 

"Kevin Keegan has a lot of work to do with the squad and the team but hopefully there are exciting times ahead.

 

"We hope to get back to where we were the last time (he was in charge). He nearly won the league.

 

"Everyone remembers the entertaining football we used to play under Kevin Keegan. Hopefully we can do that and get the right results as well."

 

"With him in charge I think we are heading in the right direction."

Edited January 16, 2008 by ohhh_yeah

[Ketsbaia 0]

Off to the Galleries tomorrow to get my hair into a curly perm.

 

Rioz? I hear you can get a fake tan and your nails done too, all for £14.49

[Tribal 0]

Off to the Galleries tomorrow to get my hair into a curly perm.

 

Rioz? I hear you can get a fake tan and your nails done too, all for £14.49

 

If Keegan has a fake tan and fake nails, then I'm all for it.

[Ketsbaia 0]

Off to the Galleries tomorrow to get my hair into a curly perm.

 

Rioz? I hear you can get a fake tan and your nails done too, all for £14.49

 

If Keegan has a fake tan and fake nails, then I'm all for it.

 

Has his belly button pierced too.

[Chaser 1054]

interview with shay:

 

"The hairs stood up on the back of my neck," he told Sky Sports News.

 

"It gave everyone a huge lift before tonight's game.

 

"You dream like the fans dream that Kevin Keegan would come back and maybe Alan (Shearer) would come back as well.

 

"But until it was announced today, you thought it was just a dream.

 

"Everyone's pinching themselves around the north east tonight. The dream's come true.

 

"Kevin Keegan has a lot of work to do with the squad and the team but hopefully there are exciting times ahead.

 

"We hope to get back to where we were the last time (he was in charge). He nearly won the league.

 

"Everyone remembers the entertaining football we used to play under Kevin Keegan. Hopefully we can do that and get the right results as well."

 

"With him in charge I think we are heading in the right direction."

 

 

He was grinning with delight right through the interview. Amazing what a week in football does

[Tribal 0]

Off to the Galleries tomorrow to get my hair into a curly perm.

 

Rioz? I hear you can get a fake tan and your nails done too, all for £14.49

 

If Keegan has a fake tan and fake nails, then I'm all for it.

 

Has his belly button pierced too.

 

Fuck that, my belly button is an 'outy'.

[Ketsbaia 0]

Off to the Galleries tomorrow to get my hair into a curly perm.

 

Rioz? I hear you can get a fake tan and your nails done too, all for £14.49

 

If Keegan has a fake tan and fake nails, then I'm all for it.

 

Has his belly button pierced too.

 

Fuck that, my belly button is an 'outy'.

 

KK says...

 

 

Urgh! You freak!

[Guest Patrokles]

Maybe everyone has to get real for a moment. We need to realise that we aren't going to get a successful manager. Why the hell would he want to come here. Shit players, not filling the stdium any more and unrealistic tragets. Why do most of our fans think we have a right to win things just because we used to be a big club.

I think we should get Kevin Blackwell as manager - he did a good job at Leeds, Peter Reid is available too.

 

Lotbot's first post on this forum in the "Allardyce sacked" thread.

 

Love how you pretend to be one of us and suggest Monkey's Heed as a manager. Get lost you wannabe sticky toffee bastard, you're not even good enough to be a mackem.

 

You, of all people, should know how much it hurts to be bullied and persecuted on these boards. Shame on you.