Sir Alex Ferguson has hailed his fierce managerial rival who built Newcastle's "best-ever team" amid an ongoing outpouring of affection for Kevin Keegan. They brought these great players to the club too and they added to it, and it gave Newcastle – I think – their best-ever team." Kevin Keegan's "love it" rant at the denouement of the 1995-96 title race belongs firmly in that category. None can match the original, though, for pure, unfiltered TV gold as Keegan, then in charge of Newcastle United, became the most famous victim of Sir Alex Ferguson's uncompromising psychological jousting. That kind of candour and authenticity and refusal to mask what others might view as weakness or fallibility were part of Keegan's great appeal.