Former England and Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan has been diagnosed with cancer. The 74-year-old was recently admitted to hospital after presenting abdominal symptoms and tests have shown he has the disease for which he is undergoing treatment. Keegan was twice named European Footballer of the Year while at German club Hamburg.
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Newcastle United ended their dismal recent run of form to reach the FA Cup fourth round with a comfortable win over arch-rivals Sunderland in the Tyne-Wear derby at the Stadium of Light. The first meeting between Sunderland and Newcastle since March 2016 was played out in a predictably passionate and intense atmosphere but Eddie Howe’s side stamped their Premier League superiority on the occasion to end a sequence of seven defeats in their past eight games.
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