jongoodwin wrote:The official NUFC Press Release:

"Geordie messiah to return"

Talk about setting yourselves up for a fall.

iembalm wrote:jongoodwin wrote:

Why risk his reputation, his legendary status on Tyneside? What if things just keeping get worse for NUFC and he gets the blame?

Are you actually asking this question? I think that by default anyone who is concerned about those things should be disqualified. I certainly wouldn't want anyone afraid to get his toes wet in charge of my club.

jongoodwin wrote:
I think he comes across as quite a fragile man and wonder what it would do him if things go wrong and he hears the first whispers that he might not be the geordie messiah. Will he walk out? Will he stay and dig a bigger hole for himself?

1.45pm: Sky Sports News has just transmitted spectacular pictures of Keegan strolling pitchside at St James' Park. He's wearing a t-shirt and trackie bottoms. Oh Kevin! You could have made the effort! I've put on the Guardian Sports Desk Special Occasion Three-Piece Suit And Bowler Hat for this. "Has he quit yet?" asks Filbert.

2.02pm: He's late. I knew it. Sky are showing the door again. "These are live pictures of a door," the anchor says. This is pitiful. Then again, I'm sitting here covering a televised door. Pulitzer, please! "Does this seriously merit live coverage on the Guardian site?" asks Colin Greer. Probably not, but it's Friday afternoon and we're bored. "If you're covering this, can I assume you'll be covering Alex Ferguson's bowel movement later on today?"

2.07pm: Keegan starts speaking. "I would like to tender my resignatio..." Oh alright. He's telling everyone that he was first in contact with Mike Ashley last Thursday, then met him again on Wednesday morning at 10am, or something. Now he's saying Newcastle are "as big a club as any ... if you take away the top four". And Everton.

2.08pm: Keegan knows "what the fans want. Other guys would have to come up and find that out and it's not easy." Yes it is! All you have to do is wait outside the club shop for ten minutes; a topless troupe will come along to protest bitterly about something or other soon enough.

2.16pm: Keegan would like to clear up what happened at Manchester City. "I wasn't sacked by City, I was asked to leave. It's much the same thing, admittedly."

2.21pm: Keegan promises his team will "have a go" for fans whose love of football is "like southern people going to the theatre".

daniel robert chapman wrote:I was slightly bemused during Match of the Day on Wednesday. I had the radio on in the background to keep an eye on Newcastle against Stoke on Radio Five, while I dozed through City v West Ham. At half time, Gary Lineker addressed Alan Shearer on the subject of Kevin Keegan. I began to hear that infamous monotone in a bizarre echo, and then I realised that Radio Five had crossed to BBC1 to simulcast Shearer's thoughts to the nation. It was at that point that I thought perhaps people were making a bit too much of a football club appointing a manager.

On which subject, The Guardian are doing a fine job of live-blogging Keegan's press conference (one particular highlight in bold):

1.45pm: Sky Sports News has just transmitted spectacular pictures of Keegan strolling pitchside at St James' Park. He's wearing a t-shirt and trackie bottoms. Oh Kevin! You could have made the effort! I've put on the Guardian Sports Desk Special Occasion Three-Piece Suit And Bowler Hat for this. "Has he quit yet?" asks Filbert.

2.02pm: He's late. I knew it. Sky are showing the door again. "These are live pictures of a door," the anchor says. This is pitiful. Then again, I'm sitting here covering a televised door. Pulitzer, please! "Does this seriously merit live coverage on the Guardian site?" asks Colin Greer. Probably not, but it's Friday afternoon and we're bored. "If you're covering this, can I assume you'll be covering Alex Ferguson's bowel movement later on today?"

2.07pm: Keegan starts speaking. "I would like to tender my resignatio..." Oh alright. He's telling everyone that he was first in contact with Mike Ashley last Thursday, then met him again on Wednesday morning at 10am, or something. Now he's saying Newcastle are "as big a club as any ... if you take away the top four". And Everton.

2.08pm: Keegan knows "what the fans want. Other guys would have to come up and find that out and it's not easy." Yes it is! All you have to do is wait outside the club shop for ten minutes; a topless troupe will come along to protest bitterly about something or other soon enough.

2.21pm: Keegan promises his team will "have a go" for fans whose love of football is "like southern people going to the theatre".