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KEEGAN SIGNS: Simon Baxter recalls when Newcastle Utd pulled off a transfer coup

THE heat from the coal fire not yet emanating through the house, I rubbed a hole in the cold condensation of my bedroom window, just big enough to form a peephole, enabling me to see the garden below and next door’s gate, through which the paperboy would soon emerge.

Wow factor: Kevin Keegan celebrates scoring on his Newcastle debut against QPR in 1982

I had heard the gate open and had sprung up before he could disappear along the street. Long before social media, this was my way of catching the latest sports news before going to school.
Neil, the paperboy, was a Sunderland supporter wh...

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