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    Joe Kinnear: FA Cup-winning defender who enjoyed colourful managerial career

    by Damian Spellman Apr 07, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: PA Archive

    Joe Kinnear was a man who did things his own way.

    As a dependable full-back, he served as a key member of a star-studded Tottenham side before embarking upon a managerial career which brought him huge acclaim with Wimbledon’s ‘Crazy Gang’, but ended in a hail of expletives, controversy and at times ridicule at Newcastle.

    No slave to political correctness, Kinnear told it how he saw it and was admired and respected by those closest to him on a journey which began in Ireland and for the most part revolved around London, but notably also took him to Nepal.

    Kinnear, who has died at the age of

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