Dion Fanning
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589 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Sep
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showbiz but what he actually had really was a sense of his own his own worth and even in football in that in those days you were used to being told still that this is what you're worth and we you you belong to a club or you belong to whoever and keegan didn't do that he he he he moved around you know he went he left liverpool after six years he said he that was as much as you know even though he loved liverpool
He needed a new challenge.
He went to Germany, he went to Southampton and then he finished at Newcastle.
So that awareness of him as a player was very strong.
With Henry Cooper.
No, he was, and he had that power, as I said, and this is important.
This was a time, the 80s, and it was later in the 80s, but football was described in the Sunday Times as a slum game played in slum stadiums.
It was seen as, and I can remember as a football fan,
Like, you know, being like, if you're, if you got into conversation with certain sort of people, especially in the English people who were maybe who, you know, if you express an interest in football, they looked upon you like you were some people like as if you were kind of, you know, what's wrong with you?
Why are you engaging with this?
this game that is played, you know, that is full of hooligans and all that kind of stuff.
And Keegan transcended that completely.
And he was, he did superstars.
He did the ads.
He, I think because he wasn't tribal in that sense, because he had identified himself, if you like, and he identified his own brand in that very,
Beckham way he didn't he wasn't aligned with any of the worst excesses of English football as it was seen at the time so he was able to remove himself from that and he also had removed himself from the game by
you know, going to Europe, going to Hamburg, and then returning to a club like Southampton, where, you know, it was a nice, respectable place to be, if you like.
So he definitely carved out his own niche in that regard.
Yeah, well, that's right.
Now, at the same time, you could... It is amazing he got the European Football of the Year award.
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