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KEVIN Keegan has refused to rule out a third spell as Newcastle United boss. But the former Magpies manager has insisted it will never happen as long as Mike Ashley remains the owner. When asked if he would consider a third stint as Toon boss, Keegan, who has spent the last four years working as a lead pundit for ESPN, said: “I think the answer to that is, you never know. “Football clubs are all about people. “When Sir John Hall rang me and said ‘The two people who can save this club are the ones talking to each other now’, you thought ‘wow’. “That is a simple thing to say, but actually that’s all you need. “People say ‘Never go back’. “But I did go back.” Keegan though launched a scathing attack on the club’s current regime, and vowed that he will have no interest in the club until the owner has gone. “The Newcastle club now has no interest on that side, the fans, the team and we talk about it a lot through all my friends and the ex-players I know. “Until they (owner Ashley and chairman Derek Llambias) leave that football club, it has no interest for me. “They are not that football club. They are just custodians who are in for a few years. “It might be five, 10 or six, but Newcastle United will go on after Mike Ashley.” In an interview with Sky Sports, Keegan outlined how he had at first been excited about working for Ashley. He said: “I got a phone call from Terry Mac (McDermott), I was up in Glasgow and he said ‘They’d like to talk to you’. “I went down to talk to them. I quite liked Mike Ashley. “I though ‘Yeah, this could be good’. “But no it was a nightmare, an absolute living nightmare.” The 62-year-old resigned as boss after an argument over transfers. He later won £2m in compensation having launched a claim in court for what was thought to be £25m. That angered many fans, but Keegan insists his fight was against the regime not the club. “In the end it isn’t easy to win a court case or take a club to court,” he added. “But I didn’t see it as being Newcastle, I saw it as Mike Ashley, Dennis Wise, a guy called Jimenez and Derek Llambias.”

I could listen to him all day! His passion and enthusiasm for NUFC and the city is 2nd to none. He loves the fans. The Shearer signing was the easiest he made! He had met Taggart the previous day and the deal was done in 20 minutes! Shearer's only question was to wear the number 9! We had to pay the £15m up front plus a levy of 12 %. The flotation and people behind the scenes changing him was the reason he left. He didn't like the England job at all. On the 2nd spell as manager - "I met Ashley - thought this could be good but no, it was a nightmare" It's fair to say he detests him along with Wise, Llambias and Jiminez. "I wasn't taking the club to court it was those lot and it was something I didn't like to do" Lot of dishonesty and bull about bidding for players He mentioned he reads forums! 2 cracking interviews them!

Part 2 is 11pm tonight on Sky Sports 2

Titsup speaks! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/sunderland/10099786/Titus-Bramble-blasts-Sunderland-manager-Paolo-Di-Canio-he-thinks-he-knows-everything-but-he-has-a-lot-to-learn.html

Bobby did warn somebody, Mourinho phoned Bobby and told him so Bobby warned somebody at the club. Just beat me to it!

I'm sure Mourinho told SBR that - think it was also in SBR's Mail on Sunday column!

I wish he'd stayed at Blackburn too. He's the reason we started our slide towards relegation. Yep - totally correct there mate!

The stupid deluded tosser is at it again! Erm, you were on the verge of getting sacked at Blackburn! Prick! £50 million spunked to take a team that finished 5th into a relegation battle! http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/10458455._/

Well said mate. It absolutely baffles me how any NUFC fan can abuse KK. If he had of turned down SJH's call in 1992 then we might be having our Derby with Gateshead. You just have to look at the state of the club when he took over to what it is now. The ground, the facilities, the training ground, the players all stems from him as manager and SJH's coin. To hear his passion still now for the club and the city was superb - roll on part 2 next week! 100000% NUFC legend.

Eh? There is nothing remotely good about Pardew whatsoever. He has nowt that KK lacks, not a thing. Doesn't quit jobs. Accepts hierarchy. Understands the modern football club. Does a lot of preparation. Has a more defensive view point. Keegan quite clearly lacks the drive and determination needed to be a top class manager, he also lacks being able to do what he's told or understanding the role of a modern manager. He's a great motivator who loves attacking football but can't put his ego aside for the sake of a club and doesn't have any attention to detail while isn't open to any ideas which he didn't practise in the 80s. 1 - Give Pardew a good enough reason to resign and he would as would any manager. KK had legitimate reasons to resign every time he did resign. 2 - KK accepted SJH, Fletcher etc. He accepted the FA, Al Fayed, Man City's board of directors. What he didn't accept at NUFC was being undermined and lied to and a whole load of broken promises. KK has shown he is more than able to work with a hierarchy, if that hierarchy is the right one. I think he could work with Carr, easily, for example. Last season he basically said during one of our games on ESP that Pardew had been quite lucky getting players like Sissoko, Ben Arfa etc. bought for him. At the time I took that as him taking a bitter swipe at Ashley and co for getting him the likes of Xisco and that other player whose name escapes me, while Pardew gets the cream basically. I don't think even KK would turn down good players being bought for him though. Shearer was effectively bought for him after all. When its the likes of Xisco though or some f***er off Youtube.... KK IMO could work for this club right now, under Ashley, Llambias and Carr in this set-up, providing he knew exactly what was what. 3 - Pardew doesn't understand NUFC never mind modern football. His whole approach to football flies against the whole ethos of the club in terms of the fans and its history and indeed even the players we bring to the club. There is nothing to understand, he just goes along with things. Anyone can do that. 4 - So what? It means nowt if it doesn't translate into success. Where Pardew puts in a lot of preparation time regarding statistics and other s***, KK would be out there on the training pitch putting the hours into passing, movement, skill, flair etc. 5 - The best form of defence is attack... we conceded a record number of goals for us this season. Under KK when we lost the title we conceded something like a handful of goals less than Man Utd who were winning games right left and centre 1-0, most notably at SJP which probably decided the fate of the title that season. This when we were regarded as reckless and cavalier. I'd wager a KK side would concede less than a Pardew side, any day of the week. Btw, KK when he took over us back in the early 90s was one of a new breed, he helped to change the the role of the manager. At that time the manager was the trainer and a part-time scout. KK was everything to us. He was the chief negotiator, the chief scout, he trained the team, he coached them, he played a part in every area of the club, he even had a say on the design of our shirts. He was a new hands on new breed. Ironically its going back to how it used to be where the manager is basically the trainer and part-time scout and that for me is the best model because of just how crappy most managers are in the transfer market, scouting players etc. etc. Imagine if Pardew could pick and choose who he wanted and just how much he'd blow on s****. Souness all over again I bet. But there are some rare exceptions and KK is and always would be someone I personally would trust to spend money on a player because the man not only has an eye for talent but he has the individual tools to develop that talent and turn it into gold. He did it with Lee, Cole etc. He turned a newly promoted side that cost under 10m quid at a time when the Hammers, Derby etc were spending more to get into the PL into a 3rd place side. The man does have an ego but if it was that big, he wouldn't have walked out on us. He would have stayed around picking up the reported 3m a year salary, his ego constantly telling him he can work magic regardless. The sad truth of it all is that KK is too honest and too decent a man for football, or the way football is now. He doesn't care about finances or prozone, he cares about the fans and his players, he cares about football. KK may not have what it takes to say win the league with a side or to compete for the CL trophy (how many do) but he wipes the floor with someone like Pardew, Hughes, Bruce and half the other s*** in the division. KK in charge of this side... top 6 and attacking football without a doubt and someone like Ben Arfa scoring and creating bucket loads. "GET BACK HATEM" "NOT THERE HATEM" Picture KK waving Oba forwards frantically to take on his man... Different kettle of fish altogether. Without reading this, I know it's going to be a brilliant post! I love HTT's KK patter!

Jesus wept Even if he did, I'm fairly sure it wasn't related to KK's disastrous second coming. I'm not arguing with a stand up comic so that's me away

Jesus wept

Repeated today and well worth a look; 8am SS3 12pm SS2 3.30pm SS1

Didn't realise Juninho was there!

Good luck to a mate whose team Reading United are about to play against New York Red Bulls in the cup! The ground looks canny by his photos!

Some great stuff about his playing days with us and how he kept us up! I wonder what would have happened to us if he had of said no and we had of went down to the 3rd tier in 91-92? I hope those so called fans who call him all sorts were watching!

Absolutely brilliant that and it was only part 1! Repeated at 1am on SS1!

His current net value on their books is £17.5 million!

Dummies out! http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/sunderland-paolo-di-canio-reported-1901567

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Via Sammyobi's twitter - Colo has all of the players around his gaff tonight

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Simply, the best centre half you will see playing for us. Without him, we'd have been relegated this season. What a monumental miss he will be. I hope he gets the send off he deserves on Sunday.

Absolutely spannered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHeSSb8akHk&