Entirely. I just think that is how the myth started. Essentially, it was just some RE teachers trying to pitch the Parable of the Talents to some football mad kids.
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I absolutely agree KK was a great player. In fact I use those exact words…“he was a great player”
However it was hard to define what made him a great player. He didnt have the extravagent and obvious skills that many usually associate with great players. I pointed out the things that he didnt do but that was not to suggest he was a journeyman.
He was highly effective and made things happen.
His graft and heart were there for all to see and that distinguished him from many of his contemporaries.
But three stepovers, “no look” passes, nutmegs and backheels were not his style. He wasnt flashy nor one of the greats who make it look effortless.
None of that means he wasn’t one of the greats. He was ! But perhaps thats why he rarely features in the lists of greats compiled by neutrals but he was a great …and loved and appreciated by team mates and the supporters of all his clubs.
If that wasn’t clear in my original post then I am happy to clarify for those who misundetstood
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Have been listening to all Keegan’s tribute from the radio, not just his ex-team mates, players under him, but ordinary people from the public, how he touched their lives with gestures of kindness. He made little kids 10 feet tall just smiling at them, rubbing their hair, signing their papers and pictures.
I was in tears 
Keegan was a massively talented footballer. When he won the Ballon D’or for the first time, he got the most votes, 70+ and Johan Cruyff got 4 votes. So Keegan must done something extraordinary and magical on the pitch to beat the likes of Cruyff and Vogts in European player awards.
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Glad we are on the same page
I love this song. I know it was very cheesy, it was 1970s and there lots of songs which had lovely melodies and lovely lyrics. This one is one of them.
At least our no:7 could sing.
My mum and Aunts had a crush on Kevin, eapecially after the Brut aftershave advert.
As kid I was in awe of him. He was just so cool 
Kevin Keegan, was unique footballer with a charismatic, warm and compassionate personality on and off the pitch.
The football world will be poorer without him and even the rest of the world. I wished we had more people like him on this earth.
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This was the reporting from our regional TV news about Keegan. It’s in German, but there are some nice clips from his Hamburg days.
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Oops sorry.
I became a Liverpool supporter as a child in 1977 when my family lived in Oxford for 7 months. My father was a history professor spending the semester doing research for a book. George (a ginger) and Nigel (of African descent) who were the two kids in my school willing to play with geeky 10 year old American were Liverpool fans. So when we played footy at recess with a flatten led tin can I was either Ray Clemence or Kevin Keegan.
In a way he was the first player I idolized - even though I don’t think I ever saw him play outside of highlights (I think he had just moved to Hamburg that January as I arrived in England). It’s a function of growing older to look back and enjoy remembering the good times and good days of your youth. Keegan indirectly gave me some of the best memories of my life.
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A lot of this revised history comes from Keegan himself humbly playing down his own talent and saying he wanted to remembered for his hard work. But the fact is that you don’t achieve everything he did in the game through ‘graft’. He was a great player.
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Great player. Great example. Bona fide Red legend.
Rest in peace Kev. YNWA
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One thing I remember about KK, was when he decided to leave LFC, he announced it and told everyone that needed to know a full 12months in advance… His honesty arrived in spades.
Fast forward to the duplicity shown by some modern players like Arnold and Konate… Guys that couldn’t hold a candle to him.
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Well my memory differs. I think he announced it in about Feb or March and left at the end of the season and he got booed by some fans. I was a regular in the kop and there was definite hostility towards him for several games.
It was a huge shock as he was possibly the first player ever to want a move away from Anfield at the height of their career. It also seemed inexplicable that he would want to go to Hamburg and even more so after they finished 10th in his first full season.
He apparently got a huge increase in salary though, from £20k pa to £120k pa.
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…Yeah you are probably right… I just seem to remember he announced well in advance 
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You do us a dis-service, it was 6!