Post by Captain Marvel on Jun 23, 2011 20:10:03 GMT 1
nickkielcepoland
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1992-97
« Thread Started on Jan 17, 2011, 11:57pm »
This is a homage to Kevin Keegan, but bear with me, as I start by praising someone else. Something has made me think about the Keegan years recently, and it is this; Kenny Dalglish at Liverpool. What a truly lovely man he seems to be. Quietly spoken, very funny, and so very unassuming. And saying 'we could have done more to help Hodgson.' A real working-class gent, and a giant of British and European football. Which naturally leads me to think, what about the time when he was at Newcastle? He was never very popular with us fans. We took his seriousness and quiet demeanour, as a sign that he was the opposite of Keegan. And let's face it, even Gullit suffered partly from not being Kevin Keegan, and he was SECOND after Keegan.
What was it about Keegan that so totally disadvantaged Dalglish's (and Gullit's too, possibly) attempts to be accepted by the Geordie faithful. They were both like rabbit's in the headlights to be honest, and Gullit gave one of the most modest speeches he has ever made, when he left, thanking everyone.
The answer is of course, the UNIQUENESS of the Keegan years, 1992 to 1997. Yes, there was a lot of finance behind the on-field success. They were helped by the magnificently rejuvenated Geordie boy, Peter Beardsley. But from the moment Keegan walked into St. James' Park, Newcastle was a different city. I didn't live there at the time, I lived in Bergen, where I had grown up, but had been a Toon fan since 1985.
Keegan has flaws, we ALL know that, and real flaws.
But on that day, in February 1992, he had a vision, and his vision came true; he transformed the whole region.
We were all gutted when we failed to get that league trophy in 1996. I'm sometimes still gutted now, just thinking about it.
And yet, at the same time, is it just possible that winning ANY trophy could have led us to forget, that the Keegan years were 5 GLORIOUS YEARS, and not one instance of winning a trohpy. Blackburn had that one league title to look back on, but would I swap what we had for Blackburn's one trophy. No, I wouldn't.
Keegan, for all his faults, came back to Tyneside, with a skill that no one else in the world possessed; namely, how to wake up the Geordie giant, a giant that comprised 60,000 regulars in the 1940s, when we were in division 2.
Thanks, KK, for giving us a magical, magical 5-year period, trophiless, but magical, and a specific something no other manager, anywhere has managed to achieve.
Read more: chroniclemembers.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=forthesupporters&action=display&thread=117#ixzz1Q7yFoFux
I thought I had seen Nicks name on this forum strange he could post without being a member but that does`nt matter.
This post is a really good read, a bit different from the Nick from the Chronny but a good post all the same.(Right up my street).
I wonder why he does`nt come on here now?
ATB
Guest
1992-97
« Thread Started on Jan 17, 2011, 11:57pm »
This is a homage to Kevin Keegan, but bear with me, as I start by praising someone else. Something has made me think about the Keegan years recently, and it is this; Kenny Dalglish at Liverpool. What a truly lovely man he seems to be. Quietly spoken, very funny, and so very unassuming. And saying 'we could have done more to help Hodgson.' A real working-class gent, and a giant of British and European football. Which naturally leads me to think, what about the time when he was at Newcastle? He was never very popular with us fans. We took his seriousness and quiet demeanour, as a sign that he was the opposite of Keegan. And let's face it, even Gullit suffered partly from not being Kevin Keegan, and he was SECOND after Keegan.
What was it about Keegan that so totally disadvantaged Dalglish's (and Gullit's too, possibly) attempts to be accepted by the Geordie faithful. They were both like rabbit's in the headlights to be honest, and Gullit gave one of the most modest speeches he has ever made, when he left, thanking everyone.
The answer is of course, the UNIQUENESS of the Keegan years, 1992 to 1997. Yes, there was a lot of finance behind the on-field success. They were helped by the magnificently rejuvenated Geordie boy, Peter Beardsley. But from the moment Keegan walked into St. James' Park, Newcastle was a different city. I didn't live there at the time, I lived in Bergen, where I had grown up, but had been a Toon fan since 1985.
Keegan has flaws, we ALL know that, and real flaws.
But on that day, in February 1992, he had a vision, and his vision came true; he transformed the whole region.
We were all gutted when we failed to get that league trophy in 1996. I'm sometimes still gutted now, just thinking about it.
And yet, at the same time, is it just possible that winning ANY trophy could have led us to forget, that the Keegan years were 5 GLORIOUS YEARS, and not one instance of winning a trohpy. Blackburn had that one league title to look back on, but would I swap what we had for Blackburn's one trophy. No, I wouldn't.
Keegan, for all his faults, came back to Tyneside, with a skill that no one else in the world possessed; namely, how to wake up the Geordie giant, a giant that comprised 60,000 regulars in the 1940s, when we were in division 2.
Thanks, KK, for giving us a magical, magical 5-year period, trophiless, but magical, and a specific something no other manager, anywhere has managed to achieve.
Read more: chroniclemembers.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=forthesupporters&action=display&thread=117#ixzz1Q7yFoFux
I thought I had seen Nicks name on this forum strange he could post without being a member but that does`nt matter.
This post is a really good read, a bit different from the Nick from the Chronny but a good post all the same.(Right up my street).
I wonder why he does`nt come on here now?
ATB
