Yes, that’s the reason why Kevin Keegan decided to make a return to football management in January. He’s not the likes of any other manager who came here before him, they are good managers, they also knows the game but definetely, they don’t know anything about Newcastle United.

If you also following the news recently, when Keegan’s comments on our 2-0 home defeat by Chelsea by saying the impossibility for the other premierships club to challenge any of the current Premier League’s top four clubs has been responded widely and with different perceptions by the press and other premier league supporters.

“I am not scared of saying what I think the situation is, and I won’t change that.” Keegan said, “Part of my job as manager of Newcastle United is to tell fans what’s happening at their club.”

That’s my Keegan. But, to be fair, I don’t think Keegan would say that without any good reason, not because he knows that Mike Ashley probably would not give him an extra big money to spend this summer, not because he can not take Newcastle back to challenge any of the top four teams, or anything else.

I see what Keegan means by boring is that the reality of current premier league is (mostly) corresponded to money and money and nothing but money. Want the truth about it? You can read on one comment on my previous post from a Chelsea fan, who said Keegan and Newcastle will need to spend £300millions to get into the top four.

This league is in danger with the huge gap between the top four with their money and the teams below them who have to struggle with their very limited budgets. Not to mention how they have to accept the reality when dealing with new players, they will simply lost any good player because they can not offering them Champions League games.

And from the meeting with the owner in London today, Kevin Keegan will remain in charge of Newcastle United next season. Dennis Wise, the executive director (football), United chairman Chris Mort and newly-appointed deputy Derek Llambias, together with Tony Jimenez, vice-president (player recruitment) are also include in the meeting to discuss transfer targets, the amount of funding and the separation of duties between Keegan and Newcastle’ directors at St James’ Park.

United chairman said after the meeting that it was a good meeting and was both productive and constructive. It’s good to hear about that. I personally feared of the possibility of Keegan being sacked, but thank god it wasn’t happen. We need more than just money to build this club, we need more of stability, consistency and the man who loves this club inside out to take the hot seat, and it was nobody else but Kevin Keegan.

It’s good to wait and see the implementations of today’s meeting, especially about contract talks with Michael Owen and Steven Taylor. From recent news, United boards appear to have recognised the need for urgency and talks with them are expected to start soon.

HOWAY THE LADS!!!

I once thought that Newcastle’ new owner Mike Ashley has matched with most of the Toon Army expectations of how this club should be leading to, but several of disagreements from Toon directors especially with previous manager, this club has relegation battle for months.

And after Keegan wrote off United’s chances next season to closing the gap with the Premier League’s elite, Mike Ashley is starting to speak about Toon summer spending with King Kev.

Keegan also branding the League as one of the world’s “most boring” competitions. He insisting we were a “million miles” away from the top four and there’s nothing he can do next year to get near them unless Ashley backed him with major investment in the transfer market.

“I haven’t got enough money and I wouldn’t be able to get the players anyway, so I’ll soldier on.” Keegan said on Telegraph site, “Maybe the owner thinks we can bridge that gap - but we can’t. This League is in danger of becoming one of the most boring but great leagues in the world. The top four next year will be the same top four as this year.”

I believe Mike Ashley has the pride of the Tyne, and if that is the reason why he invite Keegan for a talk, it would be something that would be good benefit for this club future and not the other way end.

Telegraph said, Keegan is understood to have angered Ashley with his remarkably downbeat assessment of the club’s future and in particular the claim that they were “a million miles away” from the top four. I don’t see any reason why Ashley should get mad about what Keegan said.

Ashley was there, at St. James’s Park last Monday when he witnesses the lack of quality in Newcastle squad against the top four team. He also seen how we’re heavily beaten by Manchester United or Liverpool before, so Keegan is trying to wake him up about the current Premier League reality, he was simply being realistic.

From the news today, Keegan wants £80millions to strengthen his squad next season. For me, that amount of money is nothing if we compare to how much the Chelsea’s owner is providing to pursue Lionel Messi from Barcelona with the same amount of money that Keegan want to spends this summer to push for a place in Europe next season.

Kevin Keegan also confirmed on Tuesday that Stephen Carr, Peter Ramage and James Troisi will leave the club at the end of the season. That would make our team even more thinner, we need immediate action very soon from Ashley or we could face another bad season to come.

Howay Ashley! Keegan loves this club, and he will use your money for good and will not waste it like any other Toon previous managers!

Well, now we know the answer. Despite giving Chelsea a helluva battle with a highly creditable 1st half performance, we were steam-rollered in the 2nd half and ultimately couldn’t live with a team in the Champions League Final and within a breath of stealing the Premier League from ManU.

It’s difficult to know what happened during the half time break to so utterly change the course of the game. Certainly without Viduka we seemed to lose all shape and organisation, and never really got back into the game from the restart.

We had worked extremely hard during the first 45 minutes, and seemed unable to continue making the telling runs, retain good possession, or provide support to the man in possession thereafter. John Terry revealed that Avram Grant had given his team a real rollicking at half time, so perhaps it was simply down to Chelsea moving up a gear or two.

Whatever the reason, the 2nd half was a real disappointment after such a thrilling opening 45mins. To be fair to Chelsea, they were excellent during the opening 30 minutes of that 2nd half, during which we were totally overrun in midfield.

I thought Taylor, Butt and Owen were our best performers on the day, although Martins caused Chelsea problems in the 1st half. Taylor handled Drogba terrifically well, and perhaps deserved his official MOTM award.

Butt had an excellent 1st half, being involved in almost everything for us, but like most of the others rather faded in the 2nd half. Owen worked his socks off all over the pitch. He missed a couple of difficult half-chances, but had a goal-bound shot cleared off the line by Terry.

I thought we ultimately lost it in midfield, where Barton in particular was poor, barely making a telling contribution in the entire 90mins. Smith ended up in midfield – I think. He was truly dreadful. We seemed to start the 2nd half in 4-4-2 with Martins and Smith playing up front.

With Chelsea running all over us, Smith dropped back into midfield leaving Martins on his own up front. This left us with no ‘out’ ball, and effectively conceding possession to Chelsea time and time again.

Tbph, I’m not sure what else we could have done in the circumstances, but I felt we’d have been better off telling Smith to stay forward, occupy Terry and Carvalho, and hopefully hold up the ball to allow others to get forward when we had possession.

As always, Smith was utterly useless in midfield, and we couldn’t possibly have been any worse off had he stayed up front with Martins foraging. There again…

Regarding Kevin Keegan, I didn’t see his post-match interview, but almost everything he is saying publicly right now concern me. I really don’t think he is happy with the management support behind the scenes at St. James’s Park, and I’m becoming increasingly concerned that, having kept the club in the Premier League, he may throw in the towel unless he starts getting the support he feels he needs.

One of his his most recent quotes is something like - “my relationship with Mike Ashley is perfect - I never speak to him”. Read into that what you will.

This was a game that provided us with a reality check, if one was needed, and confirmed just how far behind the Top 3 we really are. At our very best we can give them a game: drop below our very best by even a couple of percents and we are snookered.

For me, the game confirmed what I already knew – we have improved immeasurably under King Kev, but our midfield, in particular, is nowhere near good enough to take us back into the Top 6.

PS: nice to see Frank Lampard getting a little round of applause, after a few loons starting booing his introduction. Also nice to see him reciprocating on the final whistle. He seems a decent blerk to me, and has had a tough time personally recently.