Roy Keane

[lesblue]

Sacked or walked out on Sunderland (don't care which). I, for one, hope he fails in every job he does in football. He is (and always will be) a nasty, vicious coward of a man. Your thoughts? Hero or villain?

[Ric.ror]

I have a picture of Roy Keane on my bedroom wall - he is a hero - a true warrior - not an inch of the pitch at old trafford has not been touched by him at sometime

[Gromit]

When he went to Sunderland they were in 23rd place in the Championship, at the end of the season they were top and promoted. That's pretty good in anybodys first season in management.

His comments about the prawn sandwich brigade were spot on.

Is you whole argument based on one tackle on Alfie H�land?

[sqad617]

lesblue, you are spot on, nasty piece of work indeed, reputation based on Alfie Halland? you must be joking, and on the subject of that tacke, he admiited to going out and "doin him harm"....yes, nice guy and great professional.
Sunderland? one swallow doesn't make a summer, great or even good managers have a track record......great start eh?
No I am not a red or a blue, just a supporter of our "beautiful game"

[SgtDibble]

squad
(on the subject of that tacke, he admiited to going out and "doin him harm"....yes, nice guy )
he did not admit to saying that , the person who penned his autobiography wrote that .
that it why no legal action was taken by alf, please get your facts right

[sqad617]

Sgt Dibble...Sorry my facts were wrong.....BUT did you see that tackle?????

[ELVIS68]

I`d rather watch players like Roy Keane than the overpaid fairies that are about nowadays

Yes he did a few nasty tackles, but so have most great players

[SgtDibble]

For that tackle on Alf he should have got a six month BAN

[Rollo]

His walking out on the Ireland squad was an indication of how "professional" he is.

Another man who was not fit for purpose!

Bye bye and good riddance.

[SgtDibble]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4uzDHRo6DKk

[sqad617]

H�land is often remembered for his "feud" with Roy Keane. In 1997, when Manchester United were losing to Haaland's Leeds United team, Keane attempted to tackle H�land late in the game. In the process, Keane injured his anterior cruciate liagment. As Keane lay prone on the ground, H�land criticised Keane for the tackle and suggested that he was feigning injury to avoid punishment. Keane was booked as he was stretchered off the field. Three and a half years later, in 2001, Keane deliberately fouled H�land, high up on his knee. Initially,
Sgt Dibble.


"Keane was simply fined �5000 and received a 3-match ban. However, in his biography he admitted that he wanted to "hurt" H�land as revenge for the for the taunting he received years previously. After this revelation, Keane's received an additional 5 game ban, and �150,000 fine. H�land retired through injury in 2002, although he claimed on his website that this was not caused by Keane's tackle"

Extract from Keane's biography....one must presume that Keane read it before publication and authorised it?

[R1Geezer]

99.9% of footballers are a bunch of fa66otts with no bottle. Occasionally there is an honest one who doesn't feign injury who gets on with it, who hates to lose. Gimmee Roy Keane any day, he's one of the few, I'm more of a rugby man myself but credit where it's due, there are a few footballers who do not defile their own sport Keane's one of them. He was also right during the Irish world cup fiasco, he should have perhaps have mucked in a and got on with it but you could tell from his actions that he desperately wanted to do well and saw avoidable slap dash organisation as being wrong. If football was fulll of Keane's it wouldn't be the overpaid circus of p00fs it is now.

[daffy654]

People do not have to read and authorise a biography.If they write it themselves or are involved in the writing of it then it would be an Autobiography.
Anyway...........I like Roy Keane,he has a personality,unlike many of the other premiership managers.

[ELVIS68]

Good on him for walking out on the Ireland squad, he had the bollox to tell Barnsley born Mick MCcarthy exactly what he thought of him there and then rather than wait and moan about him in a book

[sqad617]

RIGeezer

"If football was fulll of Keane's it wouldn't be the overpaid circus of p00fs it is now. "

Quite correct, teams would be hard pushed to get a fit team on the field.
Rugby, league or union is a contact sport, soccer is not supposed to be.
I have a certain amount of sympathy with you re. salaries, but supporters bay for success and unfortunately market forces will demand �36 million for someone who will get you 30goals a season. If you don't get success...the manager is out.....hence this thread.

[Sgt.Rock]

Villan and if he's walked out as I suspect he probably has a cry baby coward.

[SgtDibble]

Squad i remember it well , Alf was going to take futher action , but as i have said above the person who penned the book admitted adding his words .

Keane story scores record By Staff reporter
26/09/02
THE autobiography of former Republic of Ireland captain Roy Keane has been hailed as the biggest-selling book in Irish literary history.

The money he made from the sale of the book makes the fine peanuts. All this was well covered in the Manchester Evening News.Legal experts tell them what to say , so they can not be done for liable or whatever it is called

[sqad617]

daffy...I think that I understand ethe differences BUT....surely you are not asking me to believe that Roy Keane didn't read his BIOGRAPHY before it was published.

[SgtDibble]

I think you will find they read reports on how much they may make from the sales.

[daffy654]

He may well have read it but that doesn't mean he has any say in whether publication went ahead. I really don't care whether he said what he is accused of saying either.
I have seen far worse football tackles in the years since he made that particular one and the players haven't been as villified for them as Roy Keane was.The only difference is that Roy Keane waited years to get his 'revenge'.

[Gromit]

Keanes tackle was bad, but I have seen worse. Manchester City's Ben Thatcher's tackle on Pedro Mendes strings to mind. Horrendous.