Kevin Keegan

[Heart Break Kid]

has resigned
2nd to leave their club this season wewt!!! :)

[Funya Chin]

You're about 3 days late.

[Heart Break Kid]

nuhuh wrong
he only just resigned at 6:34 ish :p

[Andys]

You're about 3 days late.
No it was on ITV north east that he didn't actualy resign last night or whenever and that he actualy resigns earlier tonight.

[Funya Chin]

You're about 3 days late.

It was blatantly obvious to the most rétarded of people that he was going to resign.

[Heart Break Kid]

No it was on ITV north east that he didn't actualy resign last night or whenever and that he actualy resigns earlier tonight.

yeah thats where i heard it too :)

funya be quite just coz u didnt get chance to post this ;P

[Andys]

You're about 3 days late.

It was blatantly obvious to the most rétarded of people that he was going to resign.
But it wasn't anounced.
Anything could happen. :rolleyes:

[Funya Chin]

I posted it 3 days ago.

[Heart Break Kid]

well dont invade my thread then
you just hang around in your speculated rumour thread
where mine is actually the update =]


Kevin Keegan has resigned as manager of Newcastle United after just eight months in charge.

The announcement follows lengthy talks between the 57-year-old and the board.

"I've been working desperately hard to find a way forward with the directors, but sadly that has not proved possible," Keegan said in a statement.

"It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want."

Keegan's resignation comes after three days of intense speculation about his future.

The former England boss made clear his feelings about the club's summer transfer activity at a meeting with the board on Monday, the day the summer transfer window closed.

I have been left with no choice other than to leave

Kevin Keegan

Following those talks, he was again summoned by the hierarchy on Tuesday - and at one stage it was widely understood and reported that he had parted company with the club.

Amid protests by angry fans outside St James' Park, the club was forced to deny it had sacked him, while the League Managers' Association insisted he had not resigned and that talks would continue.

However, in a statement released by the LMA late on Thursday, Keegan duly announced his departure from the club for a second time.

He added: "It remains my fervent wish to see Newcastle United do well in the future and I feel incredibly sorry for the players, staff and most importantly the supporters.

"I have been left with no choice other than to leave."

The LMA statement read: "The letter which Kevin received today from managing director Derek Llambias has failed to resolve the matters in issue between him and the club and accordingly he feels he has no alternative other than to resign."

606: DEBATE
The king has gone. I am fuming to say the least

Joe_The_Geordie

Keegan's departure comes in a tumultuous week in English football.

On Monday, Manchester City - backed by prospective new owners the Abu Dhabi United Group - broke the British transfer record to complete the £32.5m signing of Robinho from under Chelsea's noses.

And on Wednesday, Alan Curbishley beat Keegan to become the season's first Premier League managerial casualty when he resigned from West Ham only three games in.

A lack of control over transfer policy was also behind Curbishley's decision.

Keegan returned for a second spell as Newcastle manager in January, to the delight of an adoring faithful on Tyneside.

He led the Magpies to safety last season and the club had made a solid start to this season - but Keegan had become increasingly unhappy with the club's management structure.

Shortly after appointing Keegan, chairman Mike Ashley brought in Dennis Wise as a "football-related" executive director while Tony Jimenez was appointed vice-president of player recruitment.

"This is a club in disarray, turmoil, and twas ever thus it seems," commented BBC Radio 5 Live football correspondent Jonathan Legard.

Newcastle have employed seven managers since Keegan's first spell ended in 1997.

Kenny Dalglish, Ruud Gullit, Sir Bobby Robson, Graeme Souness, Glenn Roeder and Sam Allardyce all came and went before Keegan's return.

At what turned out to be Keegan's last game in charge at Arsenal on Saturday, Ashley stood with the fans wearing a Newcastle shirt with 'King Kev' on the back.

But many supporters are now directing their anger at the chairman following the departure of a man who has been idolised on Tyneside since he led them to promotion to the top flight as a player in 1982.

Keegan took over as manager for the first time in 1992, once again leading them back to the top flight before narrowly missing out on the title in 1995.

Less than two years later, Keegan stunned the sport by resigning, saying he had taken the club as far as he could.

His return in January this year was hailed by the Newcastle fans as the "return of the Messiah", but just eight months later, he handed in his resignation for a second time.

info from BBC

(and they also use the bookmark thing :P)

[Geraint]

I posted it 3 days ago.

You posted that he had been sacked. He has not been sacked.

[Flamedragon3]

You're about 3 days late.

It was blatantly obvious to the most rétarded of people that he was going to resign.
3 days ago he didn't turn up in training as he was thinking of leaving. Doesn't mean he had actually resigned at that moment in time. Because then Ashley tried to persuade him to stay. Which he obviously finally anounced his resignation today.

He shouldn't have returned to Newcastle anyway, he left a hero last time, returned as a hero last season, and now he has left as a failure... Newcastle fans won't respect him in the way when he last managed them.

[Funya Chin]

Wrong, Geraint.

I posted that he and Newcastle had parted company, not sacked, not resigned either.

I'm not bothered about this thread anyway, I just wanted to point that out so stop trying to pick fights HBK.

[Heart Break Kid]

lol im not
im just stating :)

[Bun]

i lol'd when i heard this :D.

[Heart Break Kid]

loool me to :P
slowly the geordie revolution will break down
and 6th place M'Boro will own the north east :D

[Earthquake]

Yea its all over the sky sports news, its getting boring now *flicks tv over*