"We laugh at it now" - Kevin Keegan on his rant

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[@Jack_The_Ladd]

Never forget this man has not 1 but 2 Ballon d’or’s to his name.

[@ThaEzioAuditore]

What ?

[@johndrozdz1371]

@@ThaEzioAuditore Keegan won the Ballon d'Or award in both 1978 and 1979

[@dazzaMusic]

And he had the best perm in the game no competition

[@ThaEzioAuditore]

@@johndrozdz1371 yeah I had to look it up ! Great player indeed

[@thedog3823]

Did he win anything at Newcastle?

[@tonypower9315]

Football misses him so bad......great player, great manager , great man.

[@pb7491]

Agreed. I would like to see and hear more from him. He has a lot to offer the game from a pundit level at the very least.

[@RamesesBolton]

I loved him as a City fan. Full of passion and a genuinely nice guy. I was honoured to have such a big name at my modest club

[@moadtouhami]

In a strange way, I'm sort of happy for him to not be part of what football has become. Don't get me wrong, I love the game and I'm a ST holder at my club, but he played and managed through, what was prob the last bit of top level English football being something for the masses.... Now people are paying more for a subscription to sky, than for a season ticket in the 90s

[@Mustaine1ify]

Good man is Kev but please Kevin it's Nottingham Forest not Notts Forest.🤬

[@yatesy117]

Top bloke Kevin wish he was on TV more.

[@thomasskeffington4539]

Why?

[@darrenroche9225]

Kevin keegan is an absolute legend, as honest as they come

[@roywatson8133]

one of the best english players ever a credit to football

[@eddie12454]

Kevin wore his heart on his sleeve. Like the man. Great footballer and his teams played entertaining cavalier football.

[@allthekingshorses7178]

His teams didn't win trophies though, Fergie's teams did

[@toonarmy8524]

funny isnt it some people were slating Newcastle for getting beat 4-3 of the champions (Man City) , that type of game was served up for us week in week out when he was in charge, and his philosophy was we`ll score more than they do . Brilliant man

[@supered2598]

I am telling ya I WOULD LOVE IT IF HE DID THAT AGAIN!

[@charliehancock2280]

super ed

[@azlifestyle5316]

He's out thank god

[@John-ml8qf]

LUV IT!LUV IT!

[@johnny5805]

He's 70. He looks fantastic !

[@aamirs908]

This is old I think

[@MathewSimonGospel]

Kevin Keegan - Liverpool and Newcastle Legend.

[@Andy-co6pn]

And Southampton

[@moluther2826]

-Multiple Balon dor winner -One of the best players to ever play the game -Won plenty of trophies -*Is remembered for a silly rant in 1996*

[@alanfox691]

I would say Kevin Keegan is remmberd for a hell of a lot more than that rant to be honest with you buy my generation. His Newcastle United team the first time around payed magnificent open attacking entertaining football to me that's what I remember Kevin for. Now I very rarely think of that rant it was one moment in time that is all it is.

[@meisterlymanu5214]

well not Balon Dor, Euro Player of Year. FIFA have since recognized south american players would have swept the board in the late 70s and early 80s, thats where the greatest players were at that time.

[@lewisallen3232]

Need more men like Keegan in the game.

[@luigisthebetterplumber8321]

Not only a great player but a likeable, genuine guy 👏

[@caseball-uk386]

Amazing player, amazing manager, amazing person. He made the players and supporters feel like they were 10 feet tall! He is and always will be the Messiah on Tyneside.... KINGKEV

[@seamusgallagher9872]

@Ryan unsworth bad luck cost them the league Newcastle United played utd off the pitch at Newcastle hit posts hit everything but the back of the net just bad luck but the media never say that better story in blaming someone

[@RG-ja34sep]

Newcastle United “should” have won the Premier League in 95/96. No question about it, the players let Kevin down when they went on a horrendous run of 8 games after being 12 points clear. The football they dished up that season was exciting, attacking and full of flair. Great player and manager, he’s the type of guy who any fan would love to have as their manager. Kevin’s the reason why I became a Liverpool fan in 1971 (50 years ago, wow I can’t believe it, where has the time gone?). Bill Shankly had just signed him and Liverpool were getting ready for the 1971 FA Cup Final against Arsenal, which they lost 1-2, and Kevin wasn’t selected. One of the most respected men in football, love you Kevin, keep well and stay in good health, Rob.

[@allthekingshorses7178]

Man Utd played good football that season as well, and deserved to win the league because they managed to get the job done when it counted

[@michaelkitchin9665]

@@allthekingshorses7178 I looked back at the season review the other day just to refresh my memory. For the sake of a few minutes and a couple of smacked crossbars, it could've happened. Above all, I can't imagine a team playing the way we did and even coming close. Entertaining but if I had a centre-back like Albert or Watson charging up every chance they got, I'd be having heart attacks.

[@dazzla84_ssfc]

The run of form wasn't actually terrible, it was more the fact that Man Utd went on an unreal run of form and every time between February and the end of the season when NUFC dropped points, they always took full advantage of it

[@stormhawk3319]

I always say though Keegan buying Faustino Asprilla was the reason they lost form. Brilliant player but he unsettled a team that was already flying high.

[@maratonlegendelenemirei3352]

Newcastle should never had hijacked Leeds United attempts to land Faustino Asprillia!

[@matthewbell1968]

Absolutely one of the best players I've ever seen, still loved in Hamburg and with reason 👍

[@tombutler6451]

Good for him to laugh about it now 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 top man legend actually

[@weSnooker]

As a city fan I have great memories of our team with keegan as manager. Was great times.

[@littlefish1167]

Defences never got a moment rest with Kevin keegan he was brilliant

[@nirvansingh8501]

This guy is a legend

[@nirvansingh8501]

Has he ever won a ucl

[@hossamenaba]

@@nirvansingh8501 yeah, with Liverpool.

[@DYL2020]

@@hossamenaba and with Hamburg

[@raidspadel]

Actually, he was Liverpool and Hamburg legend Also, he won Ballon d Or at Hamburg

[@DYL2020]

@@raidspadel and Newcastle

[@KryptonitetoallBS]

Kevin Keegan is a proper decent man and btw what a footballer he was also. I have utter respect for him as a player and a manager. I would have loved it if he had won the league with Newcastle just as long as it didn't deprive MUFC. He deserves much more respect imo. One of the very, very few decent and honest man who have come through that despicable club LFC. Shanks, St John, Keegan all great men, despite their association with LFC!!!

[@KryptonitetoallBS]

@@1980extremeG As you have already declared that my opinion is unfounded, why do you think I would waste it on you?

[@blackjackmaestro6505]

What a player, and a decent man aswell.

[@darraghfarrell2245]

The thing I remember most about the era with Newcastle was this old man who was a supporter of them and the camera would often pick him out in the crowd, he was in his 80's and you could see how much passion he still had for the team and seeing them win the title probably would have sent him to his grave a happy man and sadly it didn't happen.I can't find videos of the man anywhere but he definitely was picked out by the cameras in a number of matches.

[@stevecamp06]

His name was Stevie Charlton, well known local character at that time. Used to give KK boiled sweets.

[@peterlongstaff5579]

Old stevie that's what we called him in the gallowgate scoreboard end.

[@dazzla84_ssfc]

Stevie Charlton, that was his name, often nicknamed 'Superfan' Last time he was seen on TV i believe was the FA Cup semi-final against Sheffield United in 98

[@YankeeGeordie]

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[@freddiejohnson6137]

Of course it was mind games and it worked because it made Keegan and Newcastle over think thing. The same thing happened when Rafa went on his fact rant although that was aimed at trying to make others give decisions in their favour and it worked in the wrong way as it put more pressure on the team. Things like that are amazing to see happen because regardless of you believe in it sometimes all you have to do is get in the head of one player on the pitch and that negativity spreads.

[@56postoffice]

Fact.

[@rigsby1454]

Nonsense. Newcastle had already slipped back. It was pure frustration from Kevin. Fergie did exactly the same with Wenger and nothing happened. Did the same with Kenny and nothing happened

[@principalskinner4633]

Rafa's rant was premeditated as he has a piece of paper in front of him where as Keegan just snapped in the moment and probably wishes he hadn't

[@peterlongstaff5579]

TOTAL LEGEND Kevin keegan thanks for the memories.

[@mjb4983]

A truly, lovely man

[@TheManThatIsF54]

Is that Steve Harmison doing the interview?

[@12cricketmad]

It is indeed Grevious Bodily Harmison

[@dazzla84_ssfc]

Yep, the Ashington Express himself, and massive NUFC supporter

[@portcullis5622]

At least it showed that he actually cared. That Newcastle side played good football; such a shame that they didn't win the title that year.

[@nicholasjones7990]

Kevin Keegan always will be a legend.

[@andypalin3287]

Great days! 🎸🍻🤘😎

[@dannyboywhaa3146]

That season was one of the best ever, he might not have won but he gave us that and he was one hell of a player!

[@briancollins3071]

1995/96 was a special year for Newcastle United fans, I only wish that it could happen again

[@ayubmatadar1136]

Especially under Steve Bruce I would love it I would love it coming from Man. U fan.

[@andrewvaughan5686]

@@ayubmatadar1136 with the team we have now that's never going to happen, maybe if the saudi's took over

[@iandixon7641]

I remember being proud to be a Geordie solely on the football we played.A year that I will never forget.

[@hothitrieuminh5967]

My man Liverpool legend is a legend of Sky Sports.I am telling ya I WOULD LOVE IT IF HE RANT AGAIN LOVE IT

[@strykah92]

Wonder what his initial reaction to getting that “I would love it” shirt was. “When you put that on football shirts like what you’ve printed on Man Utd’s, and when you say things like that about a man like Kevin Keegan?!”

[@rigsby1454]

What a great player and what a great manager during that period.

[@grahammcevoy810]

Trophyless

[@Vortigan07]

It's shocking to someone of my sort of age to realise that there now exists a generation (possibly even two) of people that have no tangible idea of just how good a player this man was!

[@faithmapstone9982]

Had a Kevin Keegan electronic football game, as a little girl. Happy memories of him ❤playing footie! ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⭐

[@damienocallaghan2648]

I would have LOVED IT if Newcastle had won the League that season....... I would have LOVED IT

[@adammac4960]

What a legend and a decent bloke. When he was manager of Newcastle builders did work on his house. He used to bring them cups of tea and trays of sandwiches and crack on with them about football. He needs a statue build up of him outside of ST James park or a stand named after him at least when the stadium gets expanded. Although we didn’t win anything the legacy he left behind with his attacking football, big name signings and rant and passion is worth more up in the north east then everything. Manchester City has won.

[@waynehigham6504]

Wish he was back in the game I wud love it

[@johnnydoe6590]

I’m a Newcastle supporter so biased, but imo it’s exactly like the interviewer says, I watch that interview and I feel as Keegan feels in it, I’m pissed off with him. I get fired up just typing about it. Hindsight is 20/20 and people say “mInD GaMeS” now, but if NUFC had won the title people wouldn’t be talking about how Ferguson is a genius for this. There’s nothing wrong with getting fired up for a cause and for your pride. People tend to laugh at anyone who goes on a ‘rant,’ but really those who laugh just don’t care the way that the ranter does. Read the ‘man in the arena’ excerpt from a Roosevelt speech, then tell me Kev is a clown for this.

[@godofwater1234]

The son in law was a lad

[@MrRorySteel]

Seems over familiar and disrespectful to me.

[@godofwater1234]

@@MrRorySteel bet you're fun at parties

[@MrRorySteel]

I have daughters, I can emphasise with king Kev, the guy sounds like a dick. And your generic response is weak lad.

[@damiantosd8720]

My nans cousin is old Kev. Never saw him play way before my time but I wrote to him when he was Newcastle manager and he sent me the squads autographs still got them somewhere.

[@stephenlyle1156]

just showing his passion for the club

[@sofnaji]

I would love it, love it

[@raasputin]

Legend. Top guy

[@SuperR160]

King Kev. ❤

[@1DCCX]

At the time, everyone was pro Keegan and totally with him. The whole bit about him losing it and mocking him only really came about after it was confirmed Man Utd won the title.

[@james_44]

This is a rewrite of history. Everyone bar United fans (and Sunderland/ Middlesbrough fans) wanted Newcastle to win it but everyone knew Keegan had lost the plot after this.

[@1DCCX]

@@james_44 maybe because I was mid-teens at the time, I just remember everyone at school loving Newcastle and the next day, people were definitely sympathetic. Perhaps too young to appreciate someone cracking under pressure.

[@abankhan4004]

I WOULD LUV IT IF WE WIN

[@MegaALEXLOUIS]

I once had a wee next to him at Doncaster horse racing sales in 2000. He didn't rant at me though. Would have been quite strange if he did, considering we both had our nobs out.

[@HarryMoody1822]

Would of definitely been odd tbf mate

[@markbutler5470]

What a legend is right and I'm a man utd fan

[@LimaLima95]

Brilliant, sound man.

[@neilwallaceandlolawallace1969]

Desire, faith, integrity, emotional, Honest.

[@thelstan5065]

Gotta love those accents! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@meisterlymanu5214]

That Cantona goal at Newcastle broke the back. You could see it in NU fans faces, they knew the tide had turned. Happy days mid 90s.

[@richardsmith9615]

Passion and Integrity. A true role model, the type generally lost in the modern game.

[@TehPhillips]

I've never really seen what is wrong with this interview. He's literally just saying he wants to win the title.

[@Andy-co6pn]

Apart from bigging up the 'Boro 🤣

[@atatan1717]

SUPER KEVIN KEEGAN,,

[@MiniUsyk]

He won European Footballer of the Year which is different to the Balon D'or, as it excluded non European players.

[@56postoffice]

One of the truly great Premier League moments. No shame in letting the psychological games of the legendary mind master Sir Alex Ferguson undo your Premier League title hopes. Classic.

[@Oakeedokee7]

Looks like John Bercow

[@paulmallon9292]

That he still doesn't understand that Ferguson wasn't serious is absolutely mental.

[@smartgenes1]

What are you talking about, Ferguson was absolutely serious, dirty underhand tactics.

[@paulmallon9292]

@@smartgenes1 mental

[@mvp1810]

Is the interviewer Steve Harmison? Uncanny similarity

[@NFFC1979]

Notts Forest lol you mean Nottingham Forest who done a job on Hamburg

[@Busybee65]

Luckiest European Cup win, next to Villa's, Hamburg dominated that game, just couldn't score.

[@NFFC1979]

@@Busybee65 oh yeah who won though? Who defended like there lives depended on it? 2 European cups to their name pal

[@seanporter5867]

I love this video, love it! Lol

[@peterm1042]

DOESN'T GET THE RECOGNITION OR RESPECT HE DESERVES. HE WAS BEST PLAYER OF HIS GENERATION AND A GENTLEMAN.

[@dazediss6629]

Scunthorpe United legend!

[@vxrdrummer]

When did Keegan start to sound posh? I haven't heard him talk for a while and that was a surprise!!!

[@Sanctified57]

The media milked this issue to death

[@samson9098]

Kevin was a great player... indeed top 3 England greatest player.,.behind Sir Bobby and Wayne Rooney.

[@caseball-uk386]

People can laugh but what a team... 10 attacking players and Darren Peacock. Even Pav (RIP) wanted to play out of goal..

[@banterbeards8967]

His son in law sounds like a good lad👍😂

[@lfcspectre4335]

I'll love it, if we beat them!

[@irenecostigane8348]

Poetry in motion 🙂

[@Kingofthekop1]

Moetry in potion

[@ynothump2566]

BEST EVER PREMIER LEAGUE SEASON nuff said

[@jamesmarshall1485]

He looks great for his age

[@satrajitindu5234]

Is Steve Harmison the host????? 🤔

[@theverylaggygamer2667]

Man utd can have there titles but they can never have our spirit. The way he cared about our football club was unrivaled. Wouldn’t trade him for the world

[@howardsend6589]

Ledge.

[@afc89]

Cant believe how long ago that season was, i dont mind united but did want Newcastle to win that season, shame they didnt but Kevin Keegans passion was absolutely immense, no one can fault that.

[@danishpastry2885]

As a Man Utd supporter…I have so much respect for KK…what you see is what you get

[@kevinholtom1966]

Wish he was at newcastle now always good to watch instead of the dross thats being offered up now under cashley 😡

[@Guitar387]

Hes still would up about it now 😂😂

[@Prat2023]

Is that Steve hHarmison?

[@DoneDunning]

That must have hurt being smashed by your old club.

[@ShawnDrymen]

Fergie was a master at getting under the skin and Wenger was next to taste his wrath more often than not.

[@gary1961]

When Ferguson made that suggestion about teams not trying as hard against Newcastle Keegan should have just shrugged and laughed and said to the camera, 'D'you know what? I wish that was true and teams DID lay down and let us beat them. But the simple truth is, they don't. Next question.' He could have seethed in private about it, but not in public. Keegan was my hero in football. I was a 10 year old on the Kop when he made his debut against Forest and he scored a goal in that game. His partnership with John Toshack was legendary.

[@kevinstones9326]

Met keegan even been in his hotel bedroom etc in my opinion he was arrogant and looked down on people.

[@gary1961]

@@kevinstones9326 'even been in his hotel bedroon?' What the fuck's that all about?

[@kevinstones9326]

I worked in a hotel where he was staying and I had to set equipment up in his room and for author cox and stuart pearce .I didn't think keegan he seemed like a down to earth person but stuart pearce was a great guy

[@gary1961]

@@kevinstones9326 Ah, okay. Hotel worker. All innocent then. I met Alan Shearer once at Heathrow airport. I spoke to him and asked him questions as we walked along for at least five minutes. I could count the words he said to me on the fingers of one hand. Very monosyllabic. He just gave small smiles when I asked him about Ruud Gullit. Definitely no comment. That was back in 1999, on the day Bobby Robson managed his first game for them, a 0-0 draw at Arsenal.

[@kevinstones9326]

@@gary1961 at 6.00 am at the hotel keegan said to me where is every body lazy people. so no I don't like him he was living at the hotel when he was manager of man city

[@TimboTravels]

Love the bloke and I'm a Sunderland fan!

[@Taporeee]

BASED son-in-law

[@garethparr9482]

Ferguson. The mind games king

[@principalskinner4633]

He's absolutely contradicted himself when he said teams in England don't throw games and then admits Ian Woan said he didn't know if he wanted that goal to go in. So Fergie was right all along 👍

[@obsoleteworlds]

You don't seem to understand what "throwing a game" is then. Its not a player scoring but being privately conflicted about the effect of a goal. Look at Graham Fenton, the Geordie whose brace for Blackburn all but ended Newcastle's dreams. Fergie implied these guys wouldn't try not that they didn't have emotions. He directly indicated that Stuart Pearce of all people wouldn't give 100% because he'd make more money having Newcastle play his testimonial as champions. This is what Fergie will never understand. People didn't love that Newcastle team because of the reason that glory hunters supported Man U. They loved them for their spirit and the fact they represented everything positive about the sport.

[@louisgayle9211]

You'll never ever be able to live that I would love it remark down Kevin keegan the 1995/96 season still remains my most Favorite season as a Man Utd fan it holds so many great memories 4 me not just 4 the football tho

[@bigchedda3747]

Sorry, what forest?

[@mug4706]

Lockdown - retro is goated Now - 10 comments #reviveretro

[@Hashpotato]

Why do I see Henry cavill?

[@azapro911]

Legitimately the best player in Europe at one point, but folk born in the '80s like me remember him as the poor sod who got played like a fiddle by Fergie.

[@really8930]

Well, you can have “if onlys in football”. So, if only Newcastle had not sold Andy Cole, still the club’s record goalscorer in a single season in the Prem - and unlike Shearer he never took penalties - Man United might never have won the Treble or some of their titles. And who knows, Newcastle might even have pipped them in one of those seasons. Sorry Kev, but selling Andy Cole to Man Utd, a powerful and direct rival - still ranks for me as one of the worst decisions ever made by a Newcastle manager.

[@dondamon4669]

Why isn't he seen as one of tge best players ever? He needed to big himself up more

[@noelowens9976]

I'd love it if he sent me that man utd Jersey he got off his son in law

[@northernsoul1707]

You may laugh at it but pop down to old Trafford and see 76 thousand fans singing “ cheer up weepy keegan “

[@englanduk6131]

No surprise, the swampdwellers all live in the past 🤣🤣🤣

[@kenthomson9562]

Mr Keegan looking a bit liverish.

[@numannut8539]

Gerrard ain't fit to lace Keegans boots end of debate! Saw Keegan score a brilliant goal v Republic of Ireland in 1978 at Wembley. Brilliant player and a gentleman