Keegan has continued to keep links with the Yorkshire side, and he sent down a team of stars during his first reign at Newcastle, when the club asked Newcastle United to be the first club to play under their new floodlights.
Although KK has never played for the club, it was a close call. But Scunthorpe took him on schoolboy terms while Rovers "thought about it".
The rest, of course, is history. Liverpool took him to Anfield in 1971, and Doncaster had missed the boat.
But he told us (NU Mad): "I'm from Doncaster so obviously they are close to my heart."