Just seen a video on YouTube entitled “Newcastle United Memories” and it came to a part when Keegan was manager in the 90s getting interviewed, and he says
“I looked at the bus as we were going down there and I thought; ‘you know, I don’t want to be the manager who takes this team down to the 3rd Division’ because it wouldn’t have been totally fair on myself and Terry. We inherited somebody else’s players. We inherited a club that was absolutely devoid of leadership from top to bottom, so in many many ways we found ourself in a boat trying to paddle out with people that, I think if we’re honest, they wouldn’t be our choice as footballers. But nevertheless, those same players did us proud.”
The similarities in both us and KK in the 2 seasons in the then 2nd Division (1991/92 & 1992/93) and the season and a quarter we’ve had under Rafa excites me and makes me love the man even more.