Football: Keegan's Spark Lights a Fire for Viduka ; Mark Viduka's Return to Fitness has Coincided with Newcastle's Return to Form. In an Exclusive Interview He Talks to Chief Sports Writer Luke Edwards About How Kevin Keegan Helped Him Fall Back in Love with the Beautiful Game

The Journal › April 05, 2008

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IT is the favourite catchphrase of the ageing lothario that they are only as old as the woman they feel, but for ageing Premier League strikers it is perhaps more a case of only feeling as old as the strikers they partner.

Kevin Keegan's return to St James's Park has helped give Mark Viduka a new lease of life at Newcastle United, but it has as much to do with the presence of Michael Owen and Obafemi Martins as it does with the Magpies' charismatic manager.

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Football: Keegan's Spark Lights a Fire for Viduka ; Mark Viduka's Return to Fitness has Coincided with Newcastle's Return to Form. In an Exclusive Interview He Talks to Chief Sports Writer Luke Edwards About How Kevin Keegan Helped Him Fall Back in Love with the Beautiful Game

Having grown up in Melbourne, Viduka shares the typically chilled Antipodean attitude to life, but he also has - even if it is well hidden at times - the fierce competitive streak which marks out so many of his country's sportsmen and women. When he returned to the side against Birmingham, Newcastle were in danger of slipping into the bottom three....

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