“A limousine whisked me off for an appearance on Match of the Day. Then I went to the Sportsman Club for dinner with a sheikh who wanted to name a racehorse after me ... I set off for the NEC in Birmingham for a personal appearance at a toy fair; then it was straight back to London for talks with a film producer ...”
Just how big was Kevin Keegan when Kevin Keegan was big? The answer to this question is simple: Keegan was very big. Toy fairs big. Sheikhs big. So big that even daring to ask that question here speaks to a familiar kind of footballing amnesia, a tendency to see only the bright lights of the present. So much so that, you know what, I’ve kept quiet about this. But when you say that about a man like. When you hear the. When you. Well, you went down in. Down in my. Down.
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