Martin Raymond Keown is an English football pundit and former professional footballer who played as a defender from 1984 to 2005, notably in the Premier League for Arsenal, where he made over 400 appearances for the club and won ten honours.
21 Facts About Martin Keown
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Martin Keown represented England at four major international football finals including the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, as well as Euro 1992 and Euro 2000.
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Martin Keown is a part-time scout and coach for Arsenal, as well as a pundit for the BBC and BT Sport.
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Martin Keown came out of retirement in 2012 and briefly played for Combined Counties League Premier Division side Wembley in their FA Cup fixtures.
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Martin Keown signed for Villa after a season in which they had narrowly avoided relegation to the Second Division, a mere four years after being European Cup winners and five years since being league champions.
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Martin Keown appeared in 36 league games that season, but he was unable to save Villa from finishing bottom of the First Division and being relegated after 12 successive seasons in the top flight.
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Graham Taylor then arrived at Villa Park to succeed the sacked McNeill, and Martin Keown was very much part of his rebuilding plans as he missed just two league games and scored three goals as Villa finished second in the Second Division and won promotion back to the top flight at the first attempt.
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Martin Keown had a fine start to his Everton career, and they topped the table for a while in late autumn and there was hope that they could win the league title, but their form ebbed away after Christmas and they managed only a sixth-place finish.
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Martin Keown did not feature in Arsenal's historic FA Cup and League Cup double of 1993 due to being cup-tied.
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Martin Keown missed out on Arsenal's Cup Winners' Cup Final win over Parma the following year through injury although he did play a part in the overall campaign after appearing in earlier rounds.
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Martin Keown made ten league appearances during the season, before being released on a free transfer in the summer of 2004 after 11 years in his second spell at the club.
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Martin Keown signed for Leicester City, but left after less than six months and signed for Reading in January 2005 until the end of the season, after which he retired.
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When it was learned that his mother was Irish and his father Northern Irish, Jack Charlton made an inquiry as to his availability to play for the Republic of Ireland but Martin Keown chose to represent the country of his birth.
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Martin Keown was eligible to play for Northern Ireland as his father was from County Fermanagh.
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Martin Keown made his England debut in 1992 against France.
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Martin Keown earned a recall from Glenn Hoddle in 1997, and went to the 1998 World Cup, but did not play.
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Martin Keown became a regular under Kevin Keegan and played in two of England's Euro 2000 matches.
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Martin Keown retired from international football the day after England's exit at the hands of Brazil.
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Martin Keown joined the coaching staff of Newbury in August 2005, but is coaching back at former club Arsenal where he is taking his coaching badges.
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Martin Keown regularly appears as a pundit on the BBC's football coverage and Match of the Day, as well as covering the Champions League for Irish broadcaster TV3.
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Martin Keown was working for ESPN UK during the 2011 Emirates Cup.