Great player.
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Sad news. I used to have his soccer Annuals when I was growing up.
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A true legend of the game.
R.I.P. Wor Kev.
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RIP King Kev
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Shocked to hear this - ubiquitous in my younger days. Hadn’t realised he had been ill - RIP.
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Sad news, r.i.p Kev
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Oh, this really is sad news. Loved the man.
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Let his tank tops live on. RIP, a true hero even though my football loyalties were elsewhere.
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Very sad news.
Not at all old really, a lovely man. Didn’t realise that he’d won the Ballon d’Or twice. Great player.
RIP Kevin.
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Loved as both a player and a manager in Newcastle. Total legend. RIP King Kev
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Even as a West Ham supporter, I grew up adoring King Kev, as every English boy of my age did I think. At Liverpool and Hamburg in the ‘70s and early 80s he was imperious.
A fine fellow in his personal life by all accounts too.
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Top top player. R.I.P
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Sad to read about the passing of Kevin Keegan. Hugely underrated played wrongly characterised as a kind of superstar worker bee when there was so much more to him than that.
First league game I saw at Anfield was Keegan and Toshack v Leeds in 1975. I stlll have the programme and some bleak memories of the stadium and fan behaviour.
He did feel like the first superstar of that era but uniquely he endeared himself to the fans of every club he turned out for.
Until he moved to Hamburg he lived in a cottage in Cilcain in NE Wales, which is where much of my family originate from so we had lots of contact with him and many stayed in touch.
He always said that his biggest regret outside of football was selling that cottage. He and Jean wanted to return to North Wales when he retired but he could never find anywhere which matched its beauty so they understandably stayed in the NE. He could be seen out in NE Wales on a regular basis though up until about a year ago.
Still much loved locally, far more so than Michael Owen, who has never endeared himself to the locals.
Kev also popped across from the NE regularly to see the likes of the equally loved Ian Callaghan in Maghull and would happily spend half an hour on a street corner in Kenny chatting football and even kicking one if he spotted a local kick about.
A lovely bloke.
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Met Keegan a number of times, and attended all of his games, both as a player and manager at NUFC. The first time I met him, I remember having a long discussion about the merits of Warren Barton, who had recently signed for Newcastle! Keegan was a man of the people and had time for everyone. I’m sure Wor Flags with have a suitable tribute lined up for the first game of the season against Liverpool. RIP King Kev.
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Sad news. I don’t have a great recall of him as a footballer but I do remember him on the TV programme Superstars. Over the years it featured people like David Hemery, Gareth Edwards, Emlyn Hughes, Brian Jacks. All were hugely competitive as was Keegan but I had a sense that he was an entertainer too.
RIP
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A king in a time when halftime in football lasted 15 minutes without the antics we’ve seen these days. RIP KKK!
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I always compared him to Nigel Mansell.
Unlike the Prosts & Sennas, Mansell wasn’t born with huge natural talent. Sheer determination & immense amounts of hard work took him to the point where he was the equal of them.
I think this applied to Keegan & he was as good as anyone & better than most, his character keeping him at the very top for the majority of his career.
As others have commented, he was also a nice bloke who had time for others.
RIP
RIP KING KEV a truly special footballer, manager and human being he played football in a time when the game was so hard if you were tackled hard you would stand straight up for fear of showing weakness to the opposition such a great man such a legend such a sad sad loss
Genuinely surprised we’ve got this far and no-one has mentioned what he did to Berti Vogts. That’s still one of the two finest attacking performances I’ve ever seen. He was expected to struggle in a physical battle. Vogts at that time was one of maybe three of the best defenders on the planet and was the best man marker bar none. Absolutely imperious to the extent he’d shackled Cruyff in the 74 WC Final.
Keegan turned him inside out so much he eventually literally left him on his arse and also forced him to give away the penalty which finally decided the final. Vogts tried to blame it on over celebrating the German title the week before. More fool him. To the end there was mutual respect between them, which I loved.
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