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Please read our Please read ourThe renowned football journalist has been supporting, as well as writing about, Newcastle United for longer than he cares to remember.The Mag’s writer David Punton sat down with John Gibson to talk all things black and white.
My first job before United was to cover the World Cup over here that summer which we won of course. Then two years later we embarked on that glorious Fairs Cup run. United and England had claimed two silver pots. I thought ‘wonderful I’m going to have a glorious life watching both win a cabinet full of trophies’. Except that neither has won a blinkin’ thing since.
The three were ambitious if United were not. A playing career is short so they went off and were hugely successful elsewhere. When you cannot hold onto Geordies what chance have you got? Alan Shearer turned his back on Man U and walked here years later but then there was ambition inside the boardroom. Beardo also came back under KK.For me in particular it was a unique experience. I was part of his Magpie Group so I was on the inside throughout a two year bloody battle. And I mean bloody.
It was a nosebleed ride from the brink of the old Third Division to Premier League runners-up while breaking the club’s transfer record virtually every month. Kev was always likely to leave. He had done it four times before without it getting into the public domain. Each time Terry Mac shot after him and brought him back. The final time was political, the way United were planning to be a public company, but I believe in reality Keegan never got over losing the title to Man U after blowing a 12 point lead, and certainly he never enjoyed the same success or freedom in the rest of his managerial career, be it at club level or with England.
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