Every so often, on my perambulations around the footballing part of the internet, I come across a discussion of the Beatles and football: they were Scousers, in their sly way, after all. Were they Liverpool fans? Old Evertonians? Was the Walrus really Dave Hickson? Etc.
The story that usually emerges is that none of the Beatles [...]

Is Kevin Keegan’s return to Newcastle the second coming? We sent Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet William Butler Yeats to find out. Hover your mouse on the highlighted text for commentary on his match report.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is [...]

The magic of Kevin Keegan, as Tom pointed out in a comment a couple of days ago, is that almost nothing he could do would surprise you. He could buy a pet tiger and you wouldn’t even finish the article. He could release a “Head Over Heels 2k8″ remix single featuring T-Pain and [...]

On a day when Newcastle fans are celebrating the return of Kevin Keegan, here’s a memory from an afternoon when they had nothing much to celebrate. In 1972 Hereford United were a non-league team drawn to be Newcastle’s sacrificial victim in the third round of the FA Cup. Somehow they forced a draw [...]

Kevin Keegan will be the next manager of Newcastle after agreeing to return to the club he ran from 1992-1997. The club, perhaps giving in to the moment of giddiness that would naturally follow on the heels of such a development, released a statement that read, in full:
Geordie messiah to return - Kevin Keegan [...]

No one is talking about the fact that what made the negotiations between Harry Redknapp and Newcastle United break down last week was Harry Redknapp’s demand to be given his own private jet. No one is interested in the fact that Harry Redknapp would have been the coach of Newcastle United if Newcastle had [...]

This week’s Run of Play at Pitch Invasion feature is—you might want to sit down for this—an exclusive interview with Newcastle owner Mike Ashley about his decision to sack Sam Allardyce. Ashley is notoriously reclusive and suspicious of the press, but I don’t know, I guess he decided I was different, probably when he [...]

Sam Allardyce is out at Newcastle, which is a good thing, because he’s been sacked in spirit for so long now that I was starting to worry he might zombify in the middle of a match. Newcastle are of course portraying the decision as one reached by “mutual consent,” which is always the phrase [...]