In 2001, he was the subject of a book published by Mainstream Publishing entitled "Don't Give Up the Day Job: A Year in the Life a Part-time Footballer" written by Bill Leckie, which gave an insight into the difficulties of juggling work commitments and family life, whilst playing as a part-time professional footballer for Queen of the South F.C. in the Scottish League. This was his second stint with the Palmerston Park club.
His playing career effectively came to an end after sustaining a broken leg in a pre-season game between Barrow AFC and Stenhousemuir in 2002. He managed Stenhousemuir from 2004-2006 (during the 2004-2005 season, he was co-manager alongside Tony Smith). McKeown, who nowadays owns a stationery supply company in the Glasgow area, works part-time as a pundit for BBC Scotland and also has a column in the Scottish edition of The Sun newspaper.[2]
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^Queen of the South F.C. history 28 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, qosfc.com; accessed 30 August 2015.
Des McKeown at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
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mckeown, this, biography, living, person, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, adding, reliable, sources, contentious, material, about, living, persons, that, unsourced, poorly, sourced, must, removed, immediately, from, article, talk, pag. This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page especially if potentially libelous Find sources Des McKeown news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message Desmond McKeown born 18 January 1970 is a Scottish retired footballer who played for Airdrieonians Albion Rovers Queen of the South in two spells Partick Thistle and Stenhousemuir He was also in the Celtic youth team but never played a first team game for them When playing for Dumfries club Queen of the South McKeown was part of the side that made it to the 1997 Scottish Challenge Cup final playing alongside Jamie McAllister Andy Aitken Jim Thomson and man of the match Tommy Bryce 1 In 2001 he was the subject of a book published by Mainstream Publishing entitled Don t Give Up the Day Job A Year in the Life a Part time Footballer written by Bill Leckie which gave an insight into the difficulties of juggling work commitments and family life whilst playing as a part time professional footballer for Queen of the South F C in the Scottish League This was his second stint with the Palmerston Park club His playing career effectively came to an end after sustaining a broken leg in a pre season game between Barrow AFC and Stenhousemuir in 2002 He managed Stenhousemuir from 2004 2006 during the 2004 2005 season he was co manager alongside Tony Smith McKeown who nowadays owns a stationery supply company in the Glasgow area works part time as a pundit for BBC Scotland and also has a column in the Scottish edition of The Sun newspaper 2 References Edit Queen of the South F C history Archived 28 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine qosfc com accessed 30 August 2015 1 2 Sources EditDes McKeown at Soccerbase Des McKeown at Post War English amp Scottish Football League A Z Player s Database nbsp nbsp This biographical article related to association football in Scotland about a defender born in the 1970s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Des McKeown amp oldid 1164308664, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
