Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, this is it.

Nobody has ever officially told me I am banned from Sir James's Park.

Sometimes though, you know when you are not welcome, and it's almost a decade now since it

became apparent that as far as the people at the top of Newcastle United are concerned,

I will always be persona non grata, as long as the Mike Ashley regime remains in place.

Welcome to this, part one, of the Keegan Odyssey, where we do a deep dive into the autobiography of Kevin Keegan, released quite recently.

And my life in football is the name of it.

But by God, it's a life that takes in football and so much else besides.

It does, doesn't it?

It's an understatet of title, if anything, isn't it, Sam?

Let's talk just briefly about Kevin Keegan, the man.

You said, let's talk briefly, but...

No, just before we get really stuck in.

Can I just say that we've done some maths based on what we've got for this first episode,

and we think this Keegan Odyssey could stretch theoretically to 66 episodes.

So how many did we do with Roy Keene?

That was seven.

That was seven and that was Roy Keene's second book, right?

So it was only about half of his career, half his life.

Didn't have his childhood. We will one day do the original one.

In 2021.

We originally thought we'd do two or three episodes of Roy Keen and it stretched out because, you know, there was have his childhood. We will one day do the original one. In 2021. We originally thought we'd do two or three episodes of Marrikeen and it's stretched out because, you know, there's

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