Can Kevin Keegan bring glory to Newcastle United?
In selecting Kevin Keegan as the next Newcastle United manager, Mike Ashley went for the guy with passion and experience (with passion playing a major role here) – and the last man to bring Newcastle United within touching distance of winning the Premier League. If Kev is going to do a repeat (or do one better), he has one helluva task ahead of him – the league is tougher, the top four (or top 3, rather) are impenetrable and a host of rising clubs (with years of team-building behind them) stand between Newcastle United and a European place. The expectations will be ridiculously high and that’s a shame because KK, and Newcastle United, deserve better. Here’s a club that needed massive rebuilding from the ground up, a club where the most recent rebuilding process was uprooted and thrown away because Mike Ashley wanted his own man in (Kev is probably better than Sam anyway, but only time and future Newcastle United performances will tell us for sure), and now the rest of the season will b