Football icon Kevin Keegan, 72, sports a thick head of straight grey hair during outing with wife – five decades after debuting famous bubble perm

His famous bubble perm in the ’70s inspired a nation of men to follow suit and get curly hair.

But ex-footballer Kevin Keegan, 72, was pictured sporting a gloriously straight gray hair during an outing with his wife Jean in Cheshire on Wednesday.

The pair wore matching black as they headed out together to run some errands.

Kevin married Jean in 1974 – they have two daughters together, Sarah and Laura.

Meanwhile, Angela Everett, director of famed Southampton hair stylists Trevor Mitchell, was known for Kevin’s famous ‘curly’ do.

She told the Daily ultrasound in 2018: ‘I used to go to his house near Romsey because he was so famous. The drawing room would have been flooded if he had entered.’

Kevin has been out of the game since he left the Magpies in 2008.

It has been more than 25 years since Keegan, who also played as a striker for Newcastle and Liverpool and earned 63 caps for England, brought Newcastle agonizingly close to the Premier League title.

Keegan, who managed Newcastle between 1992 and 1997 and also in 2008, recently revealed that the highlight of his time in the Magpies hotseat was ‘making people happy’ after saving the club from relegation to the third tier.

‘I don’t think we’ve transformed a football club; we transformed a city,” he told Radio Alty.

“That’s exactly what we did by being open, allowing people to come and watch us train, getting out into the community.

“We did so much that the great success was at Newcastle – not the fact that we almost won the league or should have won the league or were the best team that never won the league, as some people say.

“It was the fact that we built a city and went there and made people happy. That’s what we did.’

In January 1996, Keegan’s Newcastle topped the Premier League table by 12 points, ahead of Liverpool and Manchester United.