Kevin Keegan has passed away

[Superhoop]

After a battle with cancer..

https://news.sky.com/story/kevin-keegan-latest-eng...

[easytiger123]

Wow. That is a shock. I was unaware he had been ill. RIP

[soad]

RIP

[SS427 Camaro]

Very sad news, nice guy.

[Wacky Racer]

King Kev

[dandarez]

easytiger123 said:

Wow. That is a shock. I was unaware he had been ill. RIP

He revealed he had stage 4 cancer on the 1st June.
Completely unaware he had it, he'd been in a car accident and while having a scan he was given the bad news.

RIP

[nikaiyo2]

Awww I knew he was ill and did not have long left.

Sad sad day will be missed.

Walking along, singing a song,
Walking in a Keegan wonderland

Theres only one Kevin Keegan

RIP

[Spare tyre]

Christ

He’s been in the background of my life forever

RIP

[nickfrog]

Spare tyre said:

Christ

He s been in the background of my life forever

RIP

Me too and I wasn't even in this country for my first 30 years. Make no mistake he wasn't just a legend in the UK but in many countries, even at a time when football wasn't that global yet.

[Countdown]

I can honestly say, growing up in the 70's, he was my first hero. I thought he was brilliant.

I started supported Manchester United because my brother's mate told me he played for them!

I thought England would walk the 1982 World Up because ...we had Kevin Keegan! No other team in the world had Kevin Keegan! I was heartbroken when he left for some german team.

To me he's up there with the likes of Bobby Robson, I can't imagine anybody saying a word against him

RIP

[butchstewie]

That's awful. I know he announced he was ill but that only feels like it was a month or so back.

Balls

[cirian75]

RIP King Kev

[Randy Winkman]

He was a really great footballer but another big memory of him for me was him racing a bicycle on BBC's Superstars TV show.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3JJNoQpuv0E

Ouch!

[anonymoususer]

I suddenly feel very old.
I thought him a decent very likeable guy
His rant on the radio years ago was brilliant
A very sad day

[tele_lover]

Did they ever reveal if it was PC?

You would assume it was.

It's scandalous they won't do a national screening programme.

[Arrivalist]

Even with that perm he was a legend.

One of the greats - RIP.

[markh1973]

tele_lover said:

Did they ever reveal if it was PC?

You would assume it was.

It's scandalous they won't do a national screening programme.

Part of my childhood both the football and Superstars.

The problem with PC is there is no sensible accurate test.

I'm in the middle of going through assessment post a high PSA reading. See the consultant for the MRI results tomorrow. No symptoms and it's likely the high PSA was a result of 45 miles of running in 20 something degrees over the weekend before the test. The things that impact your test results are not well understood.

My dad has a high PSA reading with no cancer - noone understands why.

[nickfrog]

tele_lover said:

Did they ever reveal if it was PC?

You would assume it was.

It's scandalous they won't do a national screening programme.

Not that simple sadly with PC.

[Arrivalist]

nickfrog said:

Not that simple sadly with PC.

Indeed it is not.

[OMITN]

I was at university when he managed Newcastle in the 90s. They trained at the university sports centre.

As students we could wander around as much as we liked. He was always really friendly (as were most of the Newcastle players at the time - Shearer was a bit aloof but he was in his homecoming era).

A friend of mine played headers tennis with him once, which was hilarious as she - a Newcastle fan - was completely starstruck and lost all coordination..!

RIP King Kev. A generational talent and so nearly beat Ferguson's United to the title....