It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast
Sep 8, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 12 segments
Jonathan Wilson and Rob Draper conclude their three-part series on Kevin Keegan by tracing his managerial career and the idealism behind his “why not?” philosophy. They cover his post-playing retreat…
Rob DraperHost
Jonathan WilsonHost
Um, we should deal with this incident that, that happens in, um, 1991, which is...
It just invokes so much, um, kinda lurid speculation really, and, and I think unfairly.
He basically, his drive, he drives back from s- I mean, south of Spain all the way to his Hampshire home, and he's on the M25.
Pulls off at Reigate Junction and finds a country lane and has a little sleep, which is kind of the responsible thing to do.
[laughs] You know, he's just lying there asleep, and suddenly someone's battering over the head with a baseball bat, and this will lead to lots of speculation of what the hell is Kevin Keegan doing sort of in a country lane and, and suggestion that he, you know, he's, he's cottaging or he's got some dark sexual past.
I mean, this is all completely unfounded and put to bed by the criminal trial, which basically finds that it was a bunch of, um- Kind of real low-life guys who had basically owed a drug dealer some money, and had just happened upon the first car they came across and decided to, to rob it.
I mean, it doesn't seem the most well-thought-out crime in the world, but they're all convicted.
Um, but I suppose it adds to Keegan's sense of, A, the reason why he's choosing this reclusive lifestyle is perhaps justified.
Britain seems a dangerous place, and the tabloid newspapers, you know, are, are, are full of sort of lurid speculation.
To be fair, I d- I don't know, the newspapers wouldn't have reported on that stuff.
Um, we should deal with this incident that, that happens in, um, 1991, which is...
It just invokes so much, um, kinda lurid speculation really, and, and I think unfairly.
He basically, his drive, he drives back from s- I mean, south of Spain all the way to his Hampshire home, and he's on the M25.
Pulls off at Reigate Junction and finds a country lane and has a little sleep, which is kind of the responsible thing to do.
[laughs] You know, he's just lying there asleep, and suddenly someone's battering over the head with a baseball bat, and this will lead to lots of speculation of what the hell is Kevin Keegan doing sort of in a country lane and, and suggestion that he, you know, he's, he's cottaging or he's got some dark sexual past.
I mean, this is all completely unfounded and put to bed by the criminal trial, which basically finds that it was a bunch of, um- Kind of real low-life guys who had basically owed a drug dealer some money, and had just happened upon the first car they came across and decided to, to rob it.
I mean, it doesn't seem the most well-thought-out crime in the world, but they're all convicted.
Um, but I suppose it adds to Keegan's sense of, A, the reason why he's choosing this reclusive lifestyle is perhaps justified.
Britain seems a dangerous place, and the tabloid newspapers, you know, are, are, are full of sort of lurid speculation.
To be fair, I d- I don't know, the newspapers wouldn't have reported on that stuff.
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