Kevin Keegan

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: Kevin Keegan

I reckon you were the German parks version of a 'Libero' Stepping out of defence with the ball and stringing balls into midfield. I don't think that i'll be able to cope if you tell me that you were a hacking fullback who wouldn't leave the 18 yard line.

Nah, I was a number 11, old fruit. And one who learned very quickly not to literally translate terminology such as 'in the air', 'on the wing' and 'penalty' to my team mates.
A 'penalty' is reverred to as 'an eleven metre (Elfmeter), which is over an inch longer than twelve yards.

By the way, I understand that when Toshack was managing in Spain and speaking to the press in Spanish he literrally translated the phrase 'like water off a duck's back', which flummoxed the locals.

[splott parker]

Re: Kevin Keegan

Keegan was supposedly the first Englishman who played in a Bundesliga-winning team. It is alleged that he was earming £12k a year at Liverpool when HSV purchased him and increased his earmings to a massive £250.
And while he was strutting his stuff at Hamburg I was schlepping around on local pitches in the Fatherland, playing at a much inferior level but where we occasionally had rum in our coffee at half time when the weather was cold.

Must have really wanted to go with a drop down to a fiver a week.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: Kevin Keegan

Must have really wanted to go with a drop down to a fiver a week.

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[splott parker]

Re: Kevin Keegan

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Sorry TBG, it opened up in the area for me and I had to put it in the net

[Tuerto]

Re: Kevin Keegan

Nah, I was a number 11, old fruit. And one who learned very quickly not to literally translate terminology such as 'in the air', 'on the wing' and 'penalty' to my team mates.
A 'penalty' is reverred to as 'an eleven metre (Elfmeter), which is over an inch longer than twelve yards.

By the way, I understand that when Toshack was managing in Spain and speaking to the press in Spanish he literrally translated the phrase 'like water off a duck's back', which flummoxed the locals.

Toshack is also routinely introduced as 'John Benjamin' in the spanish media. Benjamin being his middle name. I have no idea why, and it's a useless piece of information to share, although i wasn't going to be out done in the John Toshack trivia stakes.

[Wales-Bales]

Re: Kevin Keegan

Toshack is also routinely introduced as 'John Benjamin' in the spanish media. Benjamin being his middle name. I have no idea why, and it's a useless piece of information to share, although i wasn't going to be out done in the John Toshack trivia stakes.

Maybe toshack means c*** in Spanish?

[Mario Miethig]

Re: Kevin Keegan

Toshack is also routinely introduced as 'John Benjamin' in the spanish media. Benjamin being his middle name. I have no idea why, and it's a useless piece of information to share, although i wasn't going to be out done in the John Toshack trivia stakes.

I was on holiday on the Costa del Sol last week and was picked up by a taxi driver and he asked where I was from. I said Wales and he replied “Ah Gales. Gareth Bale, Ryan Giggs and John Benjamin Toshack.”

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: Kevin Keegan

Sorry TBG, it opened up in the area for me and I had to put it in the net

Fair dinkum, old fruit. I can take what I mete out myself

[Tuerto]

Re: Kevin Keegan

I was on holiday on the Costa del Sol last week and was picked up by a taxi driver and he asked where I was from. I said Wales and he replied “Ah Gales. Gareth Bale, Ryan Giggs and John Benjamin Toshack.”

Yeah, strange one, but quite nice. Maybe that's how he was originally introduced to the spanish sporting public and it's just stuck, or maybe it's a Spanish thing in terms of respect, Hierarchy etc either way, i like it.

[splott parker]

Re: Kevin Keegan

to TBG

[William Treseder]

Re: Kevin Keegan

Toshack is also routinely introduced as 'John Benjamin' in the spanish media. Benjamin being his middle name. I have no idea why, and it's a useless piece of information to share, although i wasn't going to be out done in the John Toshack trivia stakes.

My bit of Toshack trivia, is i once worked next to his brothers P&D business in Wellington St.

[splott parker]

Re: Kevin Keegan

My bit of Toshack trivia, is i once worked next to his brothers P&D business in Wellington St.

I played baseball for Cardiff boys with Colin.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: Kevin Keegan

My bit of Toshack trivia, is i once worked next to his brothers P&D business in Wellington St.

Apparently, his surname is of Scottish origin and is cognate with the Gaelic 'toiseach', the head of a tribe, group or, in the current day, Irish parliament.

[splott parker]

Re: Kevin Keegan

Apparently, his surname is of Scottish origin and is cognate with the Gaelic 'toiseach', the head of a tribe, group or, in the current day, Irish parliament.

His old man was a Scot, worked on the council with my Uncle Georgie. Georgie always pronounced the surname as Tooshack.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: Kevin Keegan

His old man was a Scot, worked on the council with my Uncle Georgie. Georgie always pronounced the surname as Tooshack.

Interestjng, SP.