Kevin Keegan left Manchester Metropolis by mutual consent on today in 2005 as Stuart Pearce took over first-team affairs till the top of the season.
Keegan’s spell in cost got here to an finish after three years and 10 months, with Metropolis twelfth in what was then often called the Premiership.
The previous Newcastle and England boss was the membership’s longest-serving supervisor for 26 years.
Metropolis chairman John Wardle stated: “Kevin acknowledged he was ending on the finish of subsequent season – that was a speaking level within the media that will not go away.
“We mentioned the remainder of this season and felt it was in the perfect pursuits of the membership that Kevin transfer on.”
Keegan, 54, had been appointed Metropolis supervisor in Could 2001 and guided them to the previous Division One title in his first full season.
He achieved a ninth-placed end on the membership’s return to the highest flight and certified for the UEFA Cup by the Honest Play League.
However the next 2003-04 season noticed Metropolis end fifth from backside within the Premiership, whereas his remaining marketing campaign introduced an FA Cup exit to Oldham and a League Cup defeat to an Arsenal reserve crew.
Pearce was given the job on a everlasting foundation after a profitable run of kind and stayed till Could 2007 when he was sacked and succeeded by one other former England supervisor, Sven-Goran Eriksson.
After declaring his retirement from soccer in 2005, Keegan made a sensational return to Newcastle in January 2008 – the membership the place he had loved nice success within the Nineteen Nineties.
Nevertheless it was an sad return as Keegan resigned eight months later after falling out with proprietor Mike Ashley. He has not labored in soccer since.
