Since resigning as Manager of Manchester City in March 2005, Kevin Keegan has been running his Soccer Circus in Glasgow, which you can’t help thinking is perhaps the perfect preparation for the circus that is Newcastle United these days.

Still I question the appointment, in October last year Keegan said he was finished with football management and hadn’t been watching matches. Speaking of his 1996 Newcastle team Keegan prophetically said “That team was one of the major football successes of the last 20 years; nothing like it will ever happen again” – how right you are Kevin, how right.

This is an appointment of heart over logic, Keegan was one of the games greats, yet just last year Keegan had no appetite for management – I forecast near or even relegation to the championship, not this season perhaps, but next season, that’s if Keegan doesn’t resign first.