The legend of Arsenal, Martin Keown, reveals that although his family supported the shooters when he grew up, he preferred to watch Liverpool because of obsession with Kevin Keegan.
Although born and raised in Oxford, Keown joined Arsenal As a teenager in 1980 about Forms Schoolboy, before he finally entered the first team. He came out for Aston Villa In 1986 before joining Everton In 1989, the club’s rivals supported as a child.
But while the defender spent four years in Everton, Keown reveals that loyalty to every previous side quickly went out the window when he became a professional footballer.
Arsenal legend and former defender Martin Keown supported Liverpool as a child
“You lose all this when you start playing,” explains Keown Fourfour. “My family was fans of Arsenal. They came from Ireland and the club had a strong Irish relationship.
“I was too young to remember the double win of Arsenal in 1971, but in 1974 I sat in a family grocery store in Oxford, when a lot Newcastle Fans arrived to buy Brown but – they bought enough to clean us.
“I sat there with the ball under my arm, and they told me that I had to watch the final of the cup on television that day. I sat there for five hours, this evening, when my mother closed the shop, I came to her, watching Kevin Keegan AND Liverpool Break Newcastle and told her that one day I would play in this great game. From now on I was a fan of Liverpool, and Keegan was my hero. “
Keown finally had the opportunity to play Keegan when twice Ballon d’Or The winner has become England manager. Although in the mid -1930s, Keown became a regular at Keegan, and even captured three lions in one match and remembers how it was to play for his hero.
“On the day Kevin first took the England team as a manager, in 1999 we were in a hotel in Burnham Beeches,” says Keown. “Kevin saw me with Snooker balls, he asked where I was going, and told me to gather them because he would give me a game.
“We talked and said:” Boss, I went into the game only because I watched you. ” He laughed and said: “I understand it a lot.”
When Keegan left England in 2000, Keown managed to keep his place in the national team, even though he approached the end of his career.
Sven-Gorn Erisson took him to the world championship in 2002, but Keown did not play for a minute before he called international time.
