Article: KEEGAN A CLOWN IN ASHLEY CIRCUS; Fall from grace: the fans saluted Keegan and Ashley in January (top) but the manager soon lost the power to keep players like Milner (above).

Byline: MATT LAWTON

KEVIN KEEGAN might claim otherwise but he must have realised he was trading one soccer circus for another when he accepted the invitation to return to Newcastle United.

He will no doubt insist he went back for all the right reasons his passion for the club, his passion for the supporters who will forever regard him as their Messiah.

I have unfinished business here, he declared in January, and some of us even believed him.

But it was as much because his own business in Glasgow was struggling that he suddenly answered Mike Ashleys call; that he traded serving cappuccinos to customers at his soccer circus for an ...

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