Why did the Mike Ashley years hurt so much? Strip away the self-harm and the relegations and the drip-drip of all those minging decisions and what remained was the antithesis of the platform Keegan constructed the tilt at the title, a crammed, rebuilt stadium, the cup finals, the Champions League under Sir Bobby Robson. And the truth is that Newcastle in 2022 could not exist without Keegan and his extraordinary side, which swashbuckled its way into the national consciousness and redefined what the club could mean. When they talk about Newcastle and boundless hope.Īnd, yes, things go in cycles, but 30 years on they are seeking to emulate Kevin Keegan and then finish the job, and the fascinating thing is how resemblance flows between the two eras, from the low base to the explosion of positivity. If the blissful football is not quite there yet then another generation can finally understand what their parents mean when they yap about Newcastle’s great lift-off. Those who were not can feel the reverberations a club reborn and re-energised, looking upwards and weightless with it. Sound familiar? For those around to witness it, 1992-93 was the start of something and special in its own right. Queues wound and fretted outside the stadium. It had needed a takeover, a new manager and new players to shift the gloom, a coalition formed to confound impossibility and the city caught like kindling in a heatwave.
It was the season that changed everything for Newcastle United, dragging them from oblivion and hurling them towards promise, fuelled by ambition and money and gorgeous noise.
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