My Family Said I Was Mad to Accept United Job. But I Feel Blessed ; Kinnear: They Questioned His Sanity for Even Thinking About Taking United Hot Seat - but As a Crazy Gang Member Joe Was Well Qualified

Evening Chronicle › November 11, 2008

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WHEN Joe Kinnear accepted the Newcastle United job on a week-to- week basis at the height of Mike Ashley's desperation, and with the whole country having convulsions over a Tyneside tragedy, his anxious family told him he was mad.

And after he walked into a vitriolic attack on everything he stood for to spark off his infamous 52-word expletive response to his tormentors, Kin-near's wife Bonnie asked him: "Are you crazy?"

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My Family Said I Was Mad to Accept United Job. But I Feel Blessed ; Kinnear: They Questioned His Sanity for Even Thinking About Taking United Hot Seat - but As a Crazy Gang Member Joe Was Well Qualified

Good question. Joe had formed the Crazy Gang at Wimbledon which, for donkey's years, taunted its more illustrious opponents. But he eventually had to quit in 1999 when he suffered a heart attack five minutes before the Dons were due to kick off at Sheffield Wednesday.

Perhaps Kinnear was mad. Perhaps this was the job that would kill him. Perhaps Bonnie was right.

Except that the man himself will have none of it. Jaw jut...

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