Roy Keane

- fergie -
- keane is roight.
- no, fergie -
- keanie is roight.
- fergie -
- KEANE IS ROIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING

"Don't get me wrong, I love Richard Dunne to bits, I really do, but thought he could have done better there etc etc"

You have a reputation as an outspoken and honest player, how do you think your new teammates will feel about your arrival?
I'm sure they'll love me.

Alan Hansen in his bbc column today.

If he gets a chance after his run-out in the non-hoops on Sunday :)

What about Cantona? Zola? Or are we talking about attrition?

If you have to ask the question though, my money would be on Cantona too. He was utterly central to the winning of the league from 1992-97, and his influence on a group of players who went on to win another 3 titles and a European Cup is well-documented.

Are you sure Alan Hansen isn't talking about himself?

From someone on WSC board:

"This place is a fucking disgrace! You haven't prepared at all! I mean here I am, on the bench, warming up, and I need a piss. And where can I go? Back in the dressing rooms? I tell you, Sir Alex would have had urinals set up right here, next to the f*cking bench, where I need them. This is a complete bloody shambles. Strachan, you're a c*nt. You're not even f*cking Irish, what the f*ck do you know about needing to go for a piss while waiting to play for Celtic. You ginger-haired, Scottish c*nt."

Some questioned whether he would return to management following his tempestuous departure from the Stadium of Light. "You have to wonder who'd want him now when he has walked again," Cascarino wrote at the time, adding he would be "amazed if he got another job in football".

Keane retorted: "I would not give him the time of day. I am quite happy to comment on people's opinion in football I respect, but Tony Cascarino is a man I certainly do not respect for a lot of reasons, and if I told you, you would be shocked. So the day I worry about Tony Cascarino will be a very sad day of my life."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/apr/24/roy-keane-ipswich-town-tony-cascarino

shocked !!!

Cascarino's a wifebeater iirc.

You're only saying that because he's Irish.

doesn't he mean that "Big Cas" had a "Big Gambling Problem"

x-post Big Cas not actually Irish, at all. Not even the legal Irish connections to play for Ireland.

"Roy Keane's got 'shocking' information about me? I'd like to know what that is. Tell the world, Roy. I've got nothing to hide. But I know plenty about you that would shock quite a few people. If Roy's trying to intimidate me, it won't work. You can't bully me, Roy - Keane versus Cascarino is a fight that will go the distance.

"As for him not respecting what I say, I couldn't give two hoots. I won't lose a minute's sleep. It's funny, I never had a fallout with Roy over a decade as Ireland team-mates, but as soon as I started writing my honest opinion about the way he behaves, he didn't like it.

"Roy needs to look at his own behaviour, not mine. He needs to ask why rumours spread within the game about why many players at Sunderland weren't happy while he was in charge there.

"He should look at why he left Sunderland in the lurch, just like he did with Ireland. Will the same thing happen at Ipswich?"

picking up steam

Still surprised to see him at Ipswich. It looks like the Clough theory of needing total control with everyone totally reliant on you-as-messiah (not a bad thing necessarily, it's served O'Neill fine)

except haven't they been taken over by a gajillionaire or something. agree that the manager as dictator can work fine, as long as he can delegate where he's not competent- keane's transfer record is as patchy as anybody's at premier league level.

x-post Big Cas not actually Irish, at all. Not even the legal Irish connections to play for Ireland.

― Local Garda, Friday, 24 April 2009 10:46 (1 hour ago) Permalink

is this true? he says in his autobiography that he wasn't really entitled to play for Ireland, because his mother was adopted and not a blood relative of his irish grandfather. but elsewhere I've read that's not correct - an adoption is as good as a blood relation as far as the regs are concerned.

as far as regs or concerned, but in terms of assuming the wifebeatery we'll need a certificate of blood.

also- would be extremely surprised if adoption allowed you to play under fifia regs under any circumstances, probably very tightly worded, that one.

he wasn't adopted, his mum was which made her an irish citizen.

but doesn't give him the wifebeating gene, crucially.

Keane admits he cannot foresee a time when he and Ferguson enjoy a healthy relationship again.

“I wouldn’t have thought so, no,” Keane said. “He’s a busy man and I’m fairly busy."

http://www.byfarthegreatestteam.com/posts/roy-keane-robot-manman-winner/

Gary Neville tells a story of texting Keane with his new mobile number, and receiving a text straight back from him, which said: “So what.”

A photographer I worked with once asked Keane to growl in to the camera. “I’m a footballer, not a fucking actor,” he replied.

"You don’t contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind."