Here we go.

Here we go.

Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. This is Top Flight Time Machine. I am Andy Dawson.

I'm Sam Delaney. Welcome along to the latest Keegan Odyssey. We're getting there. We're doing our best. We are... I don't even know how far through the book we are now, but we've got past the England stage, so there's not much left. I feel like his story accelerates the time goes on. I feel like his childhood and his time playing for Liverpool and Hambo, which seems a fucking lifetime ago for us now. That moves slowly. But then all of a sudden he kind of glosses over shit. Like, I was at Fulham. That didn't work out. Then I went to England. Duh, I didn't fancy it. None of the players were English. Something about Howard Wilkinson. He's a bit of a cunt. And then it's just all quite quick, isn't it? I mean, there are other people who've had less eventful lives than him, and their whole biography would have been 80% devoted to their time as England manager. I mean, that's good because, you know, we don't really like the football stuff. It's the other stuff that we thrive on. Yeah, right. It's fair enough.

So, yeah. The main reason that I, you and I, and presumably most of the cantors, are interested in this book, was his plans for a soccer circus. Soccercercercercus, that and, uh, the mortuary. The mortuary

was good, yeah. And, and basically that prank where Terry Matt dressed up as an Arab

and tried to prank the owners of Newcastle United.

Perhaps that's as good as it's going to get.

Yeah, well, let's see what happens next.

We might just abandon it.

Every day's an adventure when you're dealing with Kevin Keegan's life story.

So, here we go.

Next chapter, he says, when Manchester City offered me the opportunity

to return to football management six months

after I had given up the England job,

I knew, even before I walked through the doors of Main Road,

there were players within the dressing room

who needed to be made aware that bending the elbow,

contrary to what they appeared to believe,

was not actually a legitimate form of exercise. He speaks, of course, about heavy drinking. Yeah. Which is one of his bug bears, isn't it? This is something that comes right through the book. He doesn't like drinking at all, really. He talks about his dad coming in drunk a few times when he was young. And then, after that that there's an avowed aversion

to booze.

Yeah, it must be to do with that

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