Former England national team coach Kevin Keegan: “I don’t like listening to women analyzing men’s football”

Terry McDermott, Alan Shearer and Kevin Keegan at Newcastle at the time. — © AFP

Former England manager Kevin Keegan has expressed a remarkable opinion during a lecture in Bristol. He is annoyed by female analysts at matches of the English men’s football team. Keegan says he has nothing against female analysts per se has. “Only men’s and women’s football are not the same.”

Keegan said he doesn’t like listening to female pundits commentating on the England men’s national team.

“If I’m honest, I’m not too keen on it, although it’s perhaps an opinion I’m quite alone in,” Keegan said at a lecture in Bristol.

“I don’t like listening to women’s analysis during England men’s matches because I don’t think men’s and women’s football are the same. When I hear a female footballer playing during England-Scotland at Wembley and she says: I would have done this if I had been in that positionthen I don’t think it’s quite the same,” he said.

The 72-year-old ex-manager emphasized that he does not want to belittle women’s football and female analysts with his opinion.

“Some of them are very good, better than their male colleagues. This is how I work with Gabby Logan (BBC Sport-presentator, red.) It’s also a great period for women’s football. When I was national coach, I started coaching the English women and the level was much higher than I had imagined. I then joined them in training (during a rondo, ed.) and thought: I’ll get through this. But I couldn’t get the damn ball and one of them played me through my legs.”

The former Manchester City and Newcastle manager widely believes modern analysts talk too much. “I worked with Brian Moore, who was the best. During a World Cup final he said: Kevin, don’t talk too much, let the images speak for themselves.

“Many analysts talk too much now. They just keep talking and talking and talking. They don’t want people like us on TV anymore. Our time is over, it is time for the next generation.”

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