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The opening chapter reflects on pride in the club’s history, resentment toward perceived corporate incompetence, and the internal logic behind an “Operation KK” secret return to a private function. Themes include self-esteem, forgiveness, loyalty, and the tension between personal ties and club leadership decisions.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Jean  \nand dedicated in the memory of Bill Shankly. Two people who have given me so much.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nI want people to dream about their football club. We should all be dreamers at heart. Some people are the opposite and say,‘We can’t do that,’but when you ask them why, they can’t  \ngive a reason.  \nWell, I say,‘Why not?’  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \n1. GOING BACK  \n2. GOALS AND GROCERIES  \n3. THE FIRST RUNG  \n4. THIS IS ANFIELD  \n5. EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS  \n6. AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD  \n7. SAINTS ALIVE  \n8.‘NOT YOU, KEEGAN’  \n9. WE’RE IN HEAVEN  \n10. TO BE HOME AGAIN  \n11. THE GREAT ESCAPE  \n12. WATCH OUT, ALEX  \n13. RIDING THE MONSTER  \n14. SO NEAR YET SO FAR  \n15. LONDON LIFE  \n16. THE POISONED CHALICE  \n17. BLUE MOON  \n18. CITYITIS  \n19. MY BIG MISTAKE  \n20. TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS  \n21. GOOD TIMES  \nINDEX  \nPicture Acknowledgements List of Illustrations  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1  \nGOING BACK  \nNobody has ever officially told me I am banned from St James’ Park. Sometimes, though, you know when you are not welcome, and it is almost a decade now since it became apparent that, as far as the people at the top of Newcastle United are concerned, I will always be persona non grata as long as the Mike Ashley regime remains in place.  \nThe saddest thing is that I would not want to go back anyway after everything that happened in my second spell as Newcastle manager and, though my feelings for the club won’t fade, that policy is set in stone until Ashley has gone, and more than a hundred years of proud football history is removed from his business portfolio.  \nThe only time I have made an exception came after an invitation to a private function at St James’ Park one night when there was no football on. It was a leaving do for a lifelong Newcastle fan. My first response was to send my apologies and explain it would be impossible for me to attend. Then I started feeling bad because the guy was leaving for a new life in America and I knew everyone wanted me to be there for his send-off. I didn’t want to let him down. And, besides, I have always loved a challenge.  \nI improvised. I put on a pair of glasses, I found a flat cap and I turned up the collar on my overcoat to complete the disguise. I found a quiet place to park my car, a safe distance from the ground, and then I walked in the back way, sticking to the shadows and avoiding eye contact with passers-by. It was dark and nobody had recognised me until I made it to the stadium entrance. Then one of the staff came over straight away.‘Hello, Kevin,’ she said, with one of those lovely Geordie welcomes.‘What are you doing back here?’  \nMy cover was blown, but at least it was a friendly face rather than a hand being placed on my shoulder. The problem was I didn’t know if everybody in the building might be so hospitable and I didn’t want to take any chances. I asked if she would mind keeping it quiet and then I took the lift to the top floor. I had rung ahead to say I was on my way. Everyone had been briefed that the operation had to be conducted in complete secrecy and, when I hurried down a corridor, lined with photographs of my old teams, they were waiting for me inside one of the executive lounges. I was in and, apart from one minor scare, Operation KK had been a success. Mission accomplished.  \nI know how absurd it must sound and, when I think about it properly, what kind of craziness is it that someone with my long emotional history with Newcastle now has to smuggle himself into the ground where the owner used to call me ‘King Kev’? But this is an extraordinary club, run by unconventional people, and perhaps the most charitable way I can put it, as Jesus said on the cross, is to ‘forgive them for they know not what they do’. These people don’t know what a precious club this is. 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