OzzieMandias

In summer 1974 I worked at Newcastle airport, and if we were on a late shift we'd get a minicab to take us home. The cab company my employers used was owned by Bobby Moncur, who at the time was playing for Sunderland, but sometimes it would be Bobby himself driving the car that took me home. Incredible, compared to footballers now. He wasn't a very talkative bloke, which is also odd, given that he's now a pundit.

you never contemplated KK winnning? of course he'll win, his main part of his defence case is NUFC's own publications, its in the official match programme and the magazine with Ashley interviewed saying KK has final decision on transfers. i'm pretty sure anything in the contract would outweigh that, which is after all the equivilent of wenger saying anelka wouldn't be sold. the ""final decision" but could mean lots of things. if darlos manager asks for wayne rooney and is told they cant afford it does that mean he didn't have the final say ? It obviously does if the manager is Kevin Keegan. it appears even Ashley dosent have your faith in his position. The only position I have is that I'd rather the club had the money than Keegan. That and the fact I find the blind faith of the Keegan worshippers both amusing and a bit f***ing sad. Maybe its because he was the best manager we have ever had in the Premiership, understood the club, passionate, good football and ever ambitious. Aye, he was all those things. But that doesn't mean that he's always right for all eternity, or specifically that he's incapable of acting contrary to the club's interests, or that any less-than-reverential attitude towards the mercurial human being known as Kevin Keegan needs to be righteously denounced from the pulpit. And as the saying goes: No man can step into the same river twice, for it is no longer the same river, and he is no longer the same man.

He read it in the papers, like everyone else.

you never contemplated KK winnning? of course he'll win, his main part of his defence case is NUFC's own publications, its in the official match programme and the magazine with Ashley interviewed saying KK has final decision on transfers. i'm pretty sure anything in the contract would outweigh that, which is after all the equivilent of wenger saying anelka wouldn't be sold. the ""final decision" but could mean lots of things. if darlos manager asks for wayne rooney and is told they cant afford it does that mean he didn't have the final say ? It obviously does if the manager is Kevin Keegan. it appears even Ashley dosent have your faith in his position. The only position I have is that I'd rather the club had the money than Keegan. That and the fact I find the blind faith of the Keegan worshippers both amusing and a bit fucking sad.

you never contemplated KK winnning? of course he'll win, his main part of his defence case is NUFC's own publications, its in the official match programme and the magazine with Ashley interviewed saying KK has final decision on transfers. i'm pretty sure anything in the contract would outweigh that, which is after all the equivilent of wenger saying anelka wouldn't be sold. the ""final decision" but could mean lots of things. if darlos manager asks for wayne rooney and is told they cant afford it does that mean he didn't have the final say ? It obviously does if the manager is Kevin Keegan.

The club was happy to continue to pay Robson, honouring his contract, until he got a new job elsewhere. That wasn't enough for him though, he wanted to be able to get another job (possibly for a rival) and carry on leeching supporter's money off us as well as getting paid for managing another club. So he dragged the club through an expensive court case. It was futile in end for him anyway, as noone wanted him after the out of control dressing room he left at SJP which even the best manager in the world would have found difficult to turn around, and ultimately led to our relegation last season. Just when you think this thread can't get more ridiculous...

It's just a reaction to the amount of uncritical arse-licking. yeah right. Sorry, did I set off some alarm bell in the Church of Our Lord Kevin Keegan? YEEEEES! http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/2314/emotdownsbravo.gif Way too easily done, but that's why the moral outrage brigade are worth mocking, really. Got off your high horse man. Bloody hell, how's that for irony? How dare you, how very f***ing dare you have a pop at KK. How f***ing very dare you. You make me sick, Kevin give his all for this club and all you do is bash him, constantly. I have never been on a horse never mind a high horse.

It's just a reaction to the amount of uncritical arse-licking. yeah right. Sorry, did I set off some alarm bell in the Church of Our Lord Kevin Keegan? YEEEEES! http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/2314/emotdownsbravo.gif Way too easily done, but that's why the moral outrage brigade are worth mocking, really. Got off your high horse man. Bloody hell, how's that for irony?

It's just a reaction to the amount of uncritical arse-licking. yeah right. Sorry, did I set off some alarm bell in the Church of Our Lord Kevin Keegan? YEEEEES! http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/2314/emotdownsbravo.gif Way too easily done, but that's why the moral outrage brigade are worth mocking, really.

It's just a reaction to the amount of uncritical arse-licking. yeah right. Sorry, did I set off some alarm bell in the Church of Our Lord Kevin Keegan?

Impossible!

It's just a reaction to the amount of uncritical arse-licking.

SBR sued the club. And SBR never broke a contract in his entire career.

My brother rented a flat from Michael Chopra's uncle and once helped Mark Viduka find the bicycle shop on Shields Road. I worked Saturday afternoons in Dunn's garage on the North Road way back in late 1971, and Malcolm McDonald used to stop in to fill up on his way home from a home game. I'd check his tires and he'd tip me 20 pence, which wasn't bad as the shift only paid £1.05 before tips. Once sort of met Gazza at a party in London. Summer 1991. He was on crutches, after injuring himself at that FA Cup final for Tottenham. I tried to talk to him as he arrived but two minders he had with him hustled him away to find a seat. So he was sitting on the other side of the room, looking a bit freaked. I was with a few people, including a lass from High Heaton, and she wanted to go and talk to him, so I encouraged her. She went over and introduced herself and he said, straight off the bat: "Do you think I'm mad?" "No," she said, "I think you're fab!" He said, "Give us a kiss then." She pecked him on the cheek. Then he watched as she came back to our table, told us of this exchange, and we all fell about laughing. Poor bastard. Before meeting my dad, my mam apparently went out for a while with a player from Cowdenbeath. That's all I can think of.

Brought a tear to my eye, watching some of that stuff. Respect to Alex Ferguson. I used to hate him, back in the day, but I've warmed to the fucker in recent years, and it's clear he was speaking from the heart (and without notes – impressive). Bobby Robson, a gracious, loyal and honest man in a game increasingly full of wankers and twats, full of life and humour right to the difficult end, never did anything without putting his whole heart into it, as ruthless as you need to be in a job like that but at the same time as selfless as its possible to be without losing your competitive edge. An inspirational figure – for me, perhaps more so than anyone else associated with the club in my lifetime. The world is definitely a little bit poorer for his passing, but at least he was ours for a while. Here endeth the emotional bollocks.

People are way too sentimental about players who laughed all the way to the bank until they saw a better opportunity and fucked right off. Given, Bellamy, Owen -- they're all cunts.

The court of Louis XVI. Nonsense. It's from Shakespeare's Two Playmakers of Verona.

OK, Chez, where does "handbags at ten paces" come from?

From pub opening hours. Does it not count if it has origins somewhere else? I never heard anyone say "early doors" except in a football context.

I can understand a healthy debate over Keegan's sacking and his role in what happened last season, but surely there isn't anyone that wants to see him awarded the 8 million? Unless I'm mistaken, that would be money from NUFC to Kevin Keegan, not Mike Ashley to Kevin Keegan? So it would be the club losing out? Strange though it may seem, some people would indeed prefer to see Soccer Circus have the money than Newcastle United have the money.

Early doors.

Kenyon said he was looking for a challenge. We'd certainly be that.

"Auf Wiedersehen" means "until I see you again", so I guess the truce must be temporary.

There's plenty of difference, unless you're trying to argue that the club deliberately forced Keegan to leave. Sorry to keep making points you have no answer for.

There's plenty of difference, unless you're trying to argue that the club deliberately forced Keegan to leave.