Keegan's Back

Kevin Keegan is back at Newcastle United. If owner, Mike Ashley can get Alan Shearer to join him then, then he may as well get work started on a personal statue of himself outside the Gallowgate End. No one would complain. As a kid I used to see Newcastle quite a bit, as it was only an hour away on the train from Carlisle. I remember very clearly going to Keegan's first game for Newcastle against Queens Park Rangers in 1983, it was beautiful sunny day and I was outside the Gallowgate at noon, these were the days before all-ticket affairs became the norm. I remember paying one pound to get in ... imagine that. The capacity was only 36,000 in those days at St.James but the atmosphere was electric even though both ends of the ground were uncovered. The Geordies are not my team but I do like to see them do well, mainly because of the kind of people who follow the club. Kevin Keegan must be the most excited 56 year old on the planet today.