When I was in high school, we had a player on our team, that we nicknamed “Keegan” because he looked just like Kevin Keegan (at that time he’d already left for Hamburg, though)
But I became an Everton fan because of Tim Howard, and when Landon Donovan went there. I didn’t want to take the easy way out and just pick a “Big Four” team.
Recently I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos about the 70s era....I am fascinated by Brian Clough (of course I watched “The Damned United”), He was just a great interview, although it’s sad in his latter years the demon alcohol got to him. What a shame he never became England manager.
I saw Tim Howard play back in 1996 for a local semi-pro team called the NJ Imperials. He was just out of HS. I use to see him at minor league baseball games when he played for the Metrostars in the MLS.
My main man at the base in the North of England, the guy I stood on the Kop with, was a dead ringer for Stevie Heighway, who was center forward when Keegan was on the wing. We saw Keegan come up to Liverpool from Doncaster Rovers. My next post was Rome in 1976. Another mate of mine scored us a couple of tix for the England-Italy WC qualifier at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. England lost that day to Italy, 2-0. They won the replay at Wembley, 2-0. Keegan scored a goal. We WERE big Leeds United fans but they’ve dropped back to the Champions League. I am so happy to see EPL matches on ESPN and Fox Soccer Channel here.