Kevin Keegan’s classic 1980 Radio Times interview
This article was first published in Radio Times magazine in June 1980 Kevin Keegan, twice European Footballer of the Year, is England’s captain as they bid to win the European Championship. His qualities as a player and a man are at the heart – many would say, are the inspiration – of England’s football revival. Ian Wooldridge went to Hamburg – to the home Keegan is leaving when he returns to play for Southampton next season – to interview the player who believes that leading his country is the greatest honour of his life. The political philosophies of the dynamic young chairman of KK Enterprises Ltd sounded as though they had been vetted and thoroughly approved by Mrs Thatcher as the framework for some forthcoming Tory manifesto. Uncompromisingly reliant on such solid values as the work ethic and unblemished family life, they advocated hard work in return for hard work, immediate relief for those contemplating exile because of punitive taxation, and a sharp jab in the ribs for those shoddy British industries which flood foreign …
