Quiz time: Kevin Keegan signs for Newcastle

[HughieG]

As a player, that is. Finding the answers online is easy - using your brain and football knowledge is much harder and all the more rewarding

Quiz:

1) What club did Keegan sign from?
2) Keegan signed from Newcastle completely out of the blue. Which newspaper broke the story?
3) What year did Keegan sign for Newcastle?
4) Who were the opponents in Keegan's Newcastle debut?
5) What was the result of the game?
6) Which club finished as champions of the Second Division that season?

Good luck!

Keegan naturally ended up scoring the winning goal of his debut:

[toptoon]

1. Hamburg
2. The Journal
3.1984
4. QPR
5.1-0
6. Luton

Dementia setting in nicely.

[Zippity]

Lovely stuff, Hughie;

And I would have got the first 5 but didn't know Luton-great work, TT.

[Jammy89]

Think I would have got the first 5 as well.

Though may have failed on number 2.

[HughieG]

Well done, TopToon - some very qualified shouts; though not all correct

1) What club did Keegan sign from?

Southampton where he spent two seasons after his stint at Hamburg.

2) Keegan signed from Newcastle completely out of the blue. Which newspaper broke the story?

According to the Chronicle, it was the Chronicle.

3) What year did Keegan sign for Newcastle?

1982, retired in 1984 before a short spell at an Australian club.

4) Who were the opponents in Keegan's Newcastle debut?

QPR

5) What was the result of the game?

1-0, goalscorer Keegan

6) Which club finished as champions of the Second Division that season?

QPR