KK IS OK: Kevin Keben showed courage to recover from nightmare howler and undeserved yellow card
30.08.26, 10:46 Updated 31.08.26, 20:56 4 Minute Read
Mike Walters
Let’s not sugar-coat it or make excuses for a calamity.
Kevin Keben’s brain freeze, leading to West Ham’s freakish equaliser, was one of the most bizarre - and hideous - of its type.
If Amin Nabizada’s sumptuous chip to put Watford in front belonged in a beauty contest, Keben’s meltdown was Frankenstein on the catwalk.
The text message verdict from my spy in the Rookery, who watched the ghastly thing unfold among the Hornets’ biggest crowd for six years, was pretty mainstream: “I think that might be the worst goal I’ve seen us concede in my entire life.”
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Mike Walters spent 40 years on Fleet Street as a top sports writer and a regular in the Press box at Vicarage Road. His first game as a wide-eyed Watford fan was a 5-0 FA Cup win against Reading 55 years ago and, coupled with his national newspaper experience, few supporters are better-equipped to cover English football's original family club.