From: archer@hsi.com (Garry Archer)
Subject: Book about Kevin Keegan
Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford CT
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:01:23 GMT


In an expired article on my system,
    psraah@uta.fi (Rami Ahonen)
    Subject: Info wanted on Kevin Keegan
    Date: 2 Nov 92 13:24:12 GMT
    Organization: University of Tampere, Finland
wrote:
>
>If there is anybody out there who knows anything about Kevin Keegan, his 
>career through Scunthorpe, Liverpool, HSV and Southampton or about his
>lifestyle or some odd facts about him, please E-mail us or post an 
>article on the group.
>All information is appreciated!
>Also if you know any books or good articles written about the Super-Seven
>let us know. Thanks.
>
>tero                             OR                   rami
>psteal@uta.fi                                         psraah@uta.fi


Rami and Tero, my apologies for a delayed response.  I just kept forgetting
to get my book off the bookshelf at home!

Just before I set off from England (hopefully to return one day) back in
1980 I picked up a book about Kevin Keegan:

	"Against The World" (subtitled "Playing For England")
		by Kevin Keegan, with Mike Langley.

	First published in Great Britain in 1979 by Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd.

	ISBN 0 283 98539 9 (hard back cover)
	ISBN 0 283 98540 2 (softbound cover)


Here are the Contents to give you an idea:

	   Foreward
	 1 First Appearances
	 2 The Decline of England
	 3 Home Internationals
	 4 Against the World
	 5 Managers
	 6 On Tour with Revie
	 7 The Team Behind the Team
	 8 Keepers
           Colour Section
	 9 Players
	10 Supporters
	11 Germany
	12 The Greatest - My Own Selection
	13 Off the Pitch
	14 To the Summit
	   My Games for England
	   England Matches Since 1966
	   Index
	   Photo Acknowledgements

All in all its an "autobiography" of sorts.  Mike Langley is (was) the
chief sports writer of the Sunday People, chairman of the Football Writer's
Association and winner of the gold medal for feature-writing in a competition
organised during the Mexico World Cup, 1970 (according to the inside cover
notes).  In the foreward Langley explains, "My part in this joint enterprise
was to compile the statistics, mark out the pitch, hold the watch, take a
few throw-ins and do the typing as Kevin's natural vitality and inside
knowledge crackled into the tape recorder.  He doesn't drink and I wouldn't;
we got high together on optimism, on our belief in a regenerated England.
We disagreed on next to nothing as my original vague idea took shape as his
book, and the opinions in it are undiluted Kevin Keegan."  (Mike Langley,
June 1979).

Well, of course, I haven't read the book in years.  So I started to read it
again and laughed at this funny story in Chapter 1 "First Appearances":

	"I was on the bench behind Sir Alf Ramsey on 17 October 1973 when
	our draw with Poland at Wembley stopped us from qualifying for the
	1974 World Cup in West Germany.  Goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski -
	'A clown', as Brian Clough so mistakenly called him - was stopping
	everything.  Then, with perhaps five minutes left, Sir Alf turned
	his head and said, 'Kevin, get changed!'  I shot to my feet, and
	Ray Clemence beside me was so excited that, in trying to help take
	off my tracksuit, he whipped my shorts and under-pants down to my
	knees.  And then I found that Alf had meant the other forward
	substitute, Kevin Hector of Derby County, who darted on for probably
	the briefest of England debuts, something like ninety seconds."

I can just see it now with Keegan's shorts and under-pants down around his
knees trying to run on as substitute!!!

Well, Rami and Tero, I provided the ISBN numbers to hopefully make your
search a little easier.  Good luck!  Its a great book, by the way, full
of great stories and photographs.




-- 
Garry Archer Esq.	archer@hsi.com
3M Health Information Systems,	Wallingford, Connecticut, U.S.A.

"An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose." - A.P.Herbert