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Ex-Newcastle United star Steve Watson explains how Steve Black saved his career

Steve Watson says that motivational guru Steve Black saved his Newcastle United career and helped him become one of Kevin Keegan's Entertainers.

The Geordie lad, the youngest ever to play for Newcastle at senior level, burst on to the scene as a 16-year-old but then found it tough to get in Keegan's line-up in the 1992/93 season.

However, after working with fitness mentor Black on Tynemouth beach on a daily basis he fought his way back into the reckoning and helped Newcastle finish third in 1994.

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