Newcastle were in disarray in 2008 when Kevin Keegan walked out on the club for a second time after the sale of James Milner left his position untenable. With the season less than a month old there was quite literally no one with any sort of track record that Newcastle could turn to. So names like Terry Venables were muted before the news broke that Joe Kinnear, a man that had been out of football for over four years at that point, had taken charge until the end of the season. If Magpies fans at the time were asked to put together a list of potential managers that they wanted Newcastle to turn to then Kinnear's wouldn't even have been on there. That's how irrelevant he was. And nothing he did subsequently endeared himself to Newcastle fans either. His management of the team was utterly shambolic and left Alan Shearer, the man that eventually replaced Kinnear after his health took a turn for the worse, with a near impossible task of saving United's Premier League bacon. Then again in 2013, Kinnear was inexplicably appointed the club's Director of Football in a move that was used to deflect attention away from Mike Ashley's reluctance the spend any money on transfers. It was a clever move by the owner as United failed to bring in any permanent transfer which led fans to blame the Irishman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ6eJjK1qWc
