Kevin Keegan: My family values

The football manager and pundit talks about his family My dad was a miner until the age of about 60, but then he had to come out of the mines and worked for his last five years as a boiler-maker. He couldn’t run five yards because of working down the mines and he used to smoke, so if there was any sporting talent in the family genes it must have come from many, many generations back. My self-belief comes from him . He had a tough upbringing and fought in Burma during the war. He said: “I don’t want you to end up working down the mines like me.” But he was cautious. His favourite saying was, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, son.” I had 11 of my dozen in one basket and one in the other because to really make it as a footballer you have to be totally focused and believe in yourself even when other people don’t. I used to use my brother as a goalpost. My sister was three years older but Michael was eight years younger, so my mum used to give me the job of looking after him. I

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