Kevin Keegan Talks To TAW (2017) | TAW Special
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It's a very special Anfield Wrap, I'm John Gibbons and I'm delighted to be joined by not just a Liverpool legend but an England and Wales football legend, Kevin Keegan. Kevin, thanks a lot for not just the interview but welcoming us into your home. Yeah, you're very welcome as long as you don't eat all the food. Someone is making me a cup of tea but that's as far as I'll go, I promise you. You've got a new book out, Kevin, about your whole career and what a luscious career it's been. I want to focus, obviously, mainly on your time at Liverpool for this because it's Liverpool supporters who will be listening. But I think it is worth reminding people, Kevin, that a lot of people who went on to achieve what you did, you know, European Football of the Year, not once but twice, a lot of those players, it's almost destined that they'll become this.
And from nine years old, they're seen as, you know, he's going to be kind of a huge star. It was very different for you, wasn't it?
It was, but it was a different time. I think, obviously, when I was playing, you didn't have academies, you didn't have all these scouts going round. You had the odd one, obviously. I think Wolverhampton Wanderers had even a little academy in Barnsley because they were very forward-thinking, thinking that Yorkshire kids might be ahead of the game. So there was a few starting to look for players, but generally... In the 60s, you just played games for your local club. And if you were lucky, someone would come and invite you to a trial somewhere. And that happened to me a couple of times. Doncaster Rovers, which was a team I wanted to play for because I'm from Doncaster. And my hero was a guy called Alec Jeffery, who sadly broke his leg playing for the England 23s the year I was born.
But he came back to play for Doncaster. So I liked the way he played. And my other hero was the goalkeeper, Willy Nimmo. But turned down at Doncaster because I was too small. And then I went to Coventry, got turned down there, having come through a trial of 220. They invited two of us back for six weeks training and they took the other guy, a lad called Brian Joy, who would end up playing at Tram here. And they let me go. So, yeah, I had to take what my dad called a proper job.
I mean, you say it's different times and... And obviously it was, but is there also a lesson there generally about, I think sometimes young players can be discarded too quickly, too early. You mentioned your size there. I'm sure that still happens now. People say, oh, he's too small to be a footballer and maybe kids give up, whereas they shouldn't or given a second go, it might happen for them.
I think it has a different effect. Rejection has different effects on different people. For some people, it's the end of the road. For me, luckily, it was, I'm going to prove you wrong, you know. In particular, at Coventry, they had a lad there called Willie Carr at the time. He was only 18. He was in the first team. He wasn't much bigger than me. So I thought, you know, if he can do it, so can I. One of my heroes was Billy Wright as well, who played centre-half for England and was also only about 5'9". So there was plenty of little sort of inspirations around me.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–16:20
2
How did Kevin Keegan get discovered and start his professional career at Scunthorpe?
16:20–24:39
3
What jobs and club duties shaped Keegan’s early development before Liverpool?
24:39–34:00
4
How did Kevin Keegan negotiate his first Liverpool contract and who influenced him?
34:00–45:34
Speakers
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