Kevin Keegan Remembered
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Dionne Fanning is with us again, co-host of the Free State podcast. And Dionne, it's very rare that we do a sporting obituary on The Last Word. But it did strike me that Kevin Keegan is worth talking about. OK, maybe it's because of the generation that I am, having grown up watching football in the 1970s and onwards from that. But Keegan was, I think, a really significant figure Very much as a player and also a bit as a manager as well, who deserves a little bit of talking about. And also something, Dion, which I don't think has been commented upon in all of the coverage over the last week as well, was somebody very much of an Irish heritage. I think his grandfather was from the west of Ireland, who ended up down the coal mines in Yorkshire.
And that's where Kevin Hegan emerged from as very much a hero of England in the late 20th century. How aware of him were you growing up?
I was aware of him. Obviously, I was very aware of him. And when I was getting interested in football, he was playing in Hamburg and he was the European Footballer of the Year. And I remember that European Cup final where Hamburg were strong favourites to beat Nottingham Forest and Forest won their second European Cup final. And obviously as an England player. But I think the other thing about Kevin Keegan at that stage, Matt, and this is like why he was so significant, is that footballers weren't footballers the way they are today then. But Kevin Keegan was. Kevin Keegan had that. Everybody knew who Kevin Keegan was. He sort of transcended sporting codes. In Ireland, people would know who he was. And I remember as a kid going to see Shamrock Rovers play Southampton, and Keegan had come back from Germany and joined Southampton, which was...
A strange move for a player who was European footballer of the year. He was said to be on £3,000 a week, I think, at Southampton. And they were a very attacking team, but they played at Shamrock Rovers at Latin Sound Road. And I remember, I don't remember anything about the match, but I remember a bunch of us, I don't know who I was with, but we just invaded the pitch at the end of the game. You hooligan, you. Yeah, and we all headed for Kevin Keegan. And everyone was running for Kevin Keegan. And my only memory is of Kevin Keegan rushing by me to the dressing room in that Southampton, you remember that early 80s Southampton jersey with the thick red stripe down the middle.
Who is Kevin Keegan and why is his death being discussed?
And that was the aura that Keegan had at that point. And then he went to Newcastle. And I think his grandfather had actually been, he was a Geordie. He'd grown up in Doncaster. He had been a Geordie. And he had this pull with Newcastle and he ignited them as a player. And it was all very Keegan. He was never shy of his own self-worth. And he left Newcastle and he flew out. A helicopter landed on the centre circle and he flew away. And it was like a few people could kind of get away with that. And even at the time, I think, there were probably people who felt he was a little bit... 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.
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