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RIP Kevin Keegan

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Fallingstar Mon 20-Jul-26 15:48:15

www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13563799/kevin-keegan-dies-aged-75-former-england-forward-and-manager-passes-away-after-battle-with-cancer

Kevin Keegan the curly haired dynamo on the football pitch, much loved by many in the football world, especially Newcastle.
Thoughts are with his family, friends, and football fans.

Cossy Mon 20-Jul-26 15:51:24

Oh no! How sad. RIP

Grandmadinosaur Mon 20-Jul-26 15:57:51

So very sad. RIP Kevin YNWA

Georgesgran Mon 20-Jul-26 16:01:04

That’s caught me by surprise - very sad news. RIP Kevin, the Toon loved you.

Charleygirl5 Mon 20-Jul-26 16:02:59

I had no idea he was 75. I get a shock when I see famous people die, including newsreaders.

rafichagran Mon 20-Jul-26 16:09:26

Very sad RIP flowers

Fallingstar Mon 20-Jul-26 16:15:34

I really hope he was able to watch England come third in the World Cup.
🥹

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Mon 20-Jul-26 16:18:33

He was diagnosed with cancer when Himself was poorly last year. I felt sad for him and his family. Cancer is brutal and scary.

grandMattie Mon 20-Jul-26 16:19:43

Oh, how very sad. One of the good ‘uns! ☹️

Rachel70 Mon 20-Jul-26 16:20:29

Very Sad 😭 RIP

Fallingstar Mon 20-Jul-26 16:20:35

FriedGreenTomatoes2

He was diagnosed with cancer when Himself was poorly last year. I felt sad for him and his family. Cancer is brutal and scary.

It is indeed, and so sorry about your DH.
My DD is only in her late thirties and has cancer. Is horrid.

JaneJudge Mon 20-Jul-26 16:24:20

I’m sorry FGM flowers and what a worry for you fallingstar. I wish your daughter well flowers

Poor old Kevin.

crazyH Mon 20-Jul-26 16:33:22

Oh so sad.
Falling star and FGT - so sorry flowers .
FS - I wish your young daughter, a successful treatment and a good future !

ViceVersa Mon 20-Jul-26 16:35:12

Sad news indeed. He was a speaker at a charity dinner I attended a few years ago - came across very well indeed, and was lovely afterwards, chatting and posing for photos with anyone who wanted one.

Bukkie Mon 20-Jul-26 18:19:24

Such sad news. What a terrible year 2026 is turning out to be. With the reappearance of the mullet hairstyle, I often say to people you have a Kevin Keegan hairstyle.

ReturningFromExile Mon 20-Jul-26 18:21:52

Kevin Keegan seems to have been a thoroughly decent man. flowers Fallingstar and all best wishes for your daughter.

MollyNew Mon 20-Jul-26 18:27:40

Very sad news, one of the greats of British sport. RIP Kevin.

LizzieDrip Mon 20-Jul-26 18:30:17

RIP Kevin. A really good bloke who wore his heart on his sleeve😢

Patsy70 Mon 20-Jul-26 18:32:09

So very sad. RIP Kevin - one of the great sportsmen. 😢

Fallingstar Mon 20-Jul-26 18:32:14

Thanks for kind wishes. xx
I remember King Kev as a sensitive and gentle man who cared deeply about the game and those he managed as well as the supporters. He was very much a man of the people who never left these shores to make his fortune elsewhere.
Alan Shearer’s tribute made me teary when he simply said ‘My hero, my manager, my friend. Rest easy boss’.😢

Fallingstar Mon 20-Jul-26 18:37:18

I have to add that by not leaving these shores am not referring to his three year signing with a German club. I very much meant in later life as he could so easily have retired from the game and gone elsewhere in the world to live and make a fortune he probably couldn’t have made here in the UK.

MG55 Mon 20-Jul-26 18:37:28

Sad news indeed. Such an icon of my youth ☹️
I saw him a few times in Liverpool city centre when I was a student there in the 70s. His hair was so distinctive it was easy to recognise him amongst the shoppers.
Also, went to the Kop to watch him play a few times.

Poppyred Mon 20-Jul-26 19:14:43

RIP. Loved you playing for Liverpool in the 70s.

ferry23 Mon 20-Jul-26 19:42:42

I remember having a poster of him on my bedroom wall.

Always came across as a lovely man, and he had a distinguished football career.

Another sad loss this month. R.I.P. KK

MT62 Mon 20-Jul-26 19:46:46

Bukkie

Such sad news. What a terrible year 2026 is turning out to be. With the reappearance of the mullet hairstyle, I often say to people you have a Kevin Keegan hairstyle.

I remember my dad having a perm,the Kevin keegan.
Seemed a nice guy RIP