I wanted to fasten our seatbelts for a thrilling ride but Man City chairman was too scared - so I quit

Kevin Keegan was always a manager who thrived on emotion, passion and ambition, so it was no surprise that his tenure as Manchester City manager should come to an end if anyone didn't have the same feelings as himself.

Keegan famously quit both Newcastle United and England unexpectedly, and on this day back in 2005, it was similar with City. Having been in charge since 2001, a 1-0 home defeat by Bolton Wanderers was to prove the final act for the football legend.

Keegan was in charge of the Blues between 2001 and 2005, leading City to the First Division title and keeping them in the Premier League amid the move to the Etihad Stadium. The title-winning campaign of 2002 saw the Blues notch a then-record 108 goals to return to the Premier League at the first attempt, but Keegan says he was not given the funds to adequately improve his squad after finishing ninth in the top division.

And he revealed that a disagreement about the future of the club, the ambition and the direction it should go in with the Manchester City board was the reason for his tenure as City boss coming to an end.

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“After winning promotion back to the Premier League, my message to Manchester City’s supporters was that they had suffered too many false dawns and that, if I had my way, this time it would be different,” Keegan writes in his new autobiography, My Life in Football .

“The expectation level of the club had to go up. I knew what was possible. I had done it before at Newcastle and I desperately wanted to think we could fasten our seatbelts for the