Roy Keane

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Keane seems set to sign for his "boyhood heroes" Celtic after a move to Real Madrid fell through.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 12:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/4526940.stm

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

Even tho I'm not remotely convinced of the wisdom of this move I still think it'll be awesome to see him run out in the hoops

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

It'll make for a happy dressing room, I'm sure.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

I reckon Roy and Neil Lennon should run out together at Celtic Park, singing "Bring Me Sunshine" and doing that silly dance Morecambe and Wise used to do

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

I see Keane attracting the same sort of attention that Souness did in his first season in Scotland, to be honest (and with a similar disciplinary record, I'll wager).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

You beat me to it. This is Souness for Tims.

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

Quality press conference. Wee Gogs giving it "you callin ma mate a liar?" when asked if it was his decision to bring Keane in :-)

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.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 15 December 2005 14:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

If you are talking about the best-ever Premiership player, I think Roy Keane still shades it. But Alan runs him very close.

Alan Hansen in his bbc column today.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

I still think it'll be awesome to see him run out in the hoops

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

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 9 January 2006 18:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

Smart talking, Hansen.

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

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 19:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

FWIW, je pense que Le Grand Eric est tres sous-estime'.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 19:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

It's been said before, but why we should only evaluate players from 1992 onwards gets on my fucking knockers. It naturalises the schism of that year as somehow meaningful and important, when in fact it was just a greed-inspired landgrab that has diddly to do with the quality of players.

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.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 00:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

Cantona or Henry.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 08:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

If you are talking about the best-ever Premiership player, I think Roy Keane still shades it. But Alan runs him very close.

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

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

I was waiting for that.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

Well he is his own greatest fan

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 10:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Roy Misses chance to play as caught short

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."

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 30 January 2006 23:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

i phoned the gaffer and he agreed, it's all over

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

Gosh, I was harsh on him up there. He came good in the end for Celtic, and I wish he would stay, even if just for the Champions League games. Cheers, Keano :-)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

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

― the pinefox, Friday, 24 April 2009 09:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

shocked !!!

― the pinefox, Friday, 24 April 2009 09:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

Cascarino's a wifebeater iirc.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Friday, 24 April 2009 09:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

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

― Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Friday, 24 April 2009 10:23 (4 years ago) Permalink

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

― Local Garda, Friday, 24 April 2009 10:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

"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

― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 24 April 2009 12:03 (4 years ago) Permalink

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)

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 24 April 2009 12:29 (4 years ago) Permalink

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.

― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 24 April 2009 12:36 (4 years ago) Permalink

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.

― joe, Friday, 24 April 2009 12:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

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.

― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 24 April 2009 12:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

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

― joe, Friday, 24 April 2009 12:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

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

― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 24 April 2009 13:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

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."

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 09:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

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.”

― maybe it's a Hartlepool scarf? (onimo), Monday, 6 August 2012 15:48 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― maybe it's a Hartlepool scarf? (onimo), Monday, 6 August 2012 15:48 (9 months ago) Permalink

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

― maybe it's a Hartlepool scarf? (onimo), Monday, 6 August 2012 15:50 (9 months ago) Permalink

The small details mattered to Keane. On his first day of pre-season training with United in 1993 he ordered a taxi to drive to the Cliff training ground, and followed behind in his own car to guarantee he would not get lost.

Surely getting the taxi would have been a better call?

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 09:48 (9 months ago) Permalink

In the summer of 1998, on the brink of his comeback, I spoke with Keane at the Cliff. He seemed like a man in a hurry, as though he wanted to make up for lost time.

Vintage deficit of self-awareness.

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 09:52 (9 months ago) Permalink

-xpost- Maybe Roy knew he'd be criticising the driving so much he wouldn't remember the route.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 09:54 (9 months ago) Permalink

he didn't want to pay for a taxi back. money doesn't grow on trees fellas.

― pandemic, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 10:32 (9 months ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

His property tax form just landed on my desk

― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 10:30 (3 months ago) Permalink

that was the trouble, everyone wanted something. even in ireland they had tried to charge me something they called "tax" on my earnings. "roy has money now, let's take him to the cleaners," they no doubt thought or said in their minds. it was bollocks. i phoned my accountant and he repeatedly tried to explain what tax was. fired.

― Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 10:40 (3 months ago) Permalink

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