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Wasn't the 7-1 v Spurs during Robson's reign?

 

Don't disagree with the general sentiment though.

No.

It is, though, an odd example to pick to signify the joy of the Keegan era. If I recall correctly that game was the time he decided he had had enough. I remember seeing him at the game and thinking how miserable he looked (think he was wearing a black woolly hat). He said afterwards (not the full story I’m sure) that he just felt sorry for the Spurs manager (Francis?) rather than feeling the joy he felt he should have done. Must have been close to his final game.

 

That’s why he picked us beating Leicester 7-1, not Spurs :lol:

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That was a brilliant night and it was an honour to speak to him. He's a gentleman with time for everybody, and a fantastic storyteller. You could've listened to him tell stories all night (and I think he wanted to!), and you feel like he's got a special anecdote for literally every player or person he's come across in the game. He was waffling-on to my Dad about Darren Huckerby ffs.

 

Beardsley and Terry Mac were sat right behind us too, which was funny. So too George Caulkin, who I decided to approach and gush over before the show had started. :blush: He was unsurprisingly humble, like - get the feeling he's just a top, top man.

 

But yeah, ace. Love the Sage too, first time I've been in there. Few forum faces, too - Rich & bro, LFEE to name a couple; pretty sure I clocked Midds on the stairs n'all.

 

Top night.

 

Was that on the way out? It was probably me, really good night like. Bloke is still a legend.

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Did HTT go? Looking forward to an in depth summation of the event.

 

He's almost finished the post he started after it.

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I was at the same book signing. What a guy. By the time I met him it was already 90 minutes after he was supposed to leave. Delay was all down to the fact he was talking about football and doing photos with every single person in the queue.

 

If you could sum up everything that Is wrong about this club, and football in general to

be honest, it’s that someone like that is not suited to it.

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It’s a shame he hasn’t currently put his weight behind ‘Ashley Out’.  Maybe he has a caveat in the successful court case that he won’t get involved in Newcastle matters?

 

His involvement would be a massive lightning rod to the currently apathetic.

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My wife wanted to buy me Sage tickets as a little present but I didn't go to because to be honest, I was worried the the sadness from back then is not too far from the surface, still, after all these years. Mad isn't it. It may sound cheesy, but that man gave me the most incredible sense of being alive I have ever felt. The 'nearly' season was ridiculous and was at a dozen or so away games including that one at Anfield but the game that sticks with me the most is against Portsmouth when we were close to being relegated to the old Division 3 and David Kelly scored in the 87th minute or whenever it was. The most intense atmosphere I have ever been in. People around me worn out through the constant noise and singing from minute one. I close my eyes and I'm back in the corner Gallowgate, being chucked about. The most unbelievable ridiculous joy any man could ever feel and the most pure unity I have felt being a Newcastle fan, 26,000 odd who knew what it meant and loved the club, pre Sky, pre -premier league.  I'm sure there are a few on here who are the same but the lads I still see now who went through the whole journey from the dark days don't talk about it.  When he left the first time as a manager, a little bit of me died that day and I'm not sure I'll ever be over it. I know when you're young and daft you love your idols and it is crazy to think now that I am grown up so to speak but the biggest compliment I could pay him is if it was possible for a heterosexual man to love another man outside your partner or wife or children, then Kevin Keegan was it.

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