“Not only will he play, I will make him captain. He is the right guy to lead us – and that tells you what I think of him,” insisted Keegan.
“I know people will try to make something of the stuff in his book, but people who know me know it will not bother me – any more than it will bother me if it is right to bring Alan Shearer here as No.2.
“Other people might say, ‘He will be a threat to you’. It won’t bother me.”