Keegan Bows Out - King Kev Dethroned

Well, all the talk has finally come to a head, and 57-year-old Kevin Keegan has parted company with Newcastle United after only eight months. The writing was on the wall, but the biggest blow is to the fans many of whom would have preferred him to stay.

Where Newcastle go from here is not clear but names are already being associated with the vacant position. However, it will be a brave man who takes on the job, which is becoming something of a poison chalice. However, the money is good and there is enough of a challenge for anybody to tackle.

Keegan is reported to have said that he desperately tried to find a solution with the Directors, which in the end proved to be impossible. He believes that a football manager should be allowed to manage, particularly insofar as the players are concerned, and that is something that seems to have been increasingly denied to him.

Statements have been made by the Football Club, expressing regret at the manager's decision to go, and suggesting that they had tried to deal with the situation amicably. There are many fans who will not see it that way and blame others for what appears to be a worsening situation at the club. But as they say, as one door closes.............

It is clear that Keegan believes that those who control the club left him with no alternative other than to leave. It may be little consolation that he is the second Premiership manager to pack his backs in a week, with Alan Curbishley having beaten him, by departing from West Ham.

It is surprising what can happen over the space of a very short time. Keegan only returned for his second spell at Newcastle in January. At the time it was hailed as something like the answer to a prayer. There have been a series of managerial departures in recent years, including, Kenny Dalglish, Ruud Gullit, Sir Bobby Robson, Graeme Souness, Glenn Roeder and Sam Allardyce. It's tough at the top, but as the fans know only too well, it's a dam sight tougher at the bottom!

Where Keegan will go from here is anybody's guess. He may retire into a quiet backwater, but although he has been dethroned, it is doubtful that we have heard the last of King Kev!

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