Good day blog fiends,
Ahhh Roy Keane, never one to disappoint, always a bitter, easily disliked character has once again shared his miserable outlook on the world with er, the world.
Ips**t’s routine presser was interesting today as Mr. Keane was asked to comment on Ireland’s rape at the hands of Thierry Handry. As an Irishman, he should be upset much like every Irish footballer/ex-footballer that’s been asked about the incident since Wednesday, shouldn’t he?
But Roy Keane is Roy Keane and today he clearly still has scars from a certain incident at the World Cup 7 years ago. This morning the Ips**t gaffer offered Ireland fans some advice…“Get over it”. He then makes a sly comment about the FAI and gets a few digs in.
I would suggest that Roy may like to “Get over it” himself. Seven years ago Keane had a sensational bust up with (then) Rep of Ireland manager, Mick McCarthy, and walked out on his country to walk his dogs. The bust up started with Keane’s complaints over the training facilities in Japan and escalated to a full blown row with Keano telling McCarthy he could “stick it up his bollocks” before walking out on Ireland and heading home.
So what of Wednesday’s hoopla? Of Handry’s basketball skills, Keane blames the ref ,who was clearly blocked from seeing anything, and says that Handry is no cheat.
Amazing how bitterness can make you completely mad (heck that happens to me a lot). He also suggests that Given and his defenders should have cleared the ball telling the reporters present at Ips**te’s training dump that he tells his players to “not let the ball bounce in the box”. That’s some sound advice from a man who’s team sit second from bottom of the Championship after conceding 28 goals so far this year including a whopping 17 on the road. Only Sc**thorpe have a worse defence.
A bitter Roy Keane is amusing, but the main reason I am posting this video this morning is to share a typical Keane moment. Half way through the presser we are treated to ‘classic Keane’ as a reporters cell phone rings. Gawd bless you Roy, never change please and keep up the good work in Suffolk. Enjoy the video.
posted this in another thread, but reposting it here.
Roy Keane’s had an axe to grind with FAI for some time, as he believes, inexplicably that Corkmen are treated poorly by the national team. There are some among the fans that believe it’s him that got into Stephen Ireland’s head (himself a Corkman), and dissuaded him from even trying to get back into the national side. Couple that with the fact that Keane also seems to assume the manager’s spot with the national side is his God-given right, and anything Roy Keane says about FAI should be taken with a f**king salt mine.
Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane need to fight to the death.
If he would have just stabbed Mick McCarthy to death with a whiskey bottle in Saipan, none of this would be happening.
god, i love that guy.
So, Henry cheated, Keane’s spat with the FAI, and Ips**t sucks aside, is Keane wrong? Three or four Irish players stopped and stuck their hands up in the air instead of playing the whistle, with the ball in the 6 yard box. I understand that the French players went outside of the rules of the game to get the goal, but the Irish players still stopped playing before the whistle.
I’ve been having a real existential crisis related to this Irish team. My parents were both born in Ireland and I hold dual US-Irish citizenship. But with Robbie Keane captaining this side, I just can’t find the support within me. My dad thinks I’m crazy: “club football should never interfere with your loyalty to your country.” But my cousin called me to bitch and all I kept thinking was, “yeah, f**k Robbie Keane!”
I mention this because I still have a soft-spot in my heart for Roy Keane. Even dispite the fact he was a miserable c**t for United. I met him ’94 and I attribute it to that, but I admit it: I got an Ireland jersey with his name and number on the back.
His other comments aside, I definitely take his side on the cell phone. That reporter’s an assbag.
It’s interesting that you fail to mention Keane’s other big point. The phantom penalty call in Ireland’s favour that completely changed the game against Georgia. Did we hear the FAI demanding a replay at that time? or Ireland’s fans for that matter?
HELL NO
They’re all a bunch of hypocrites….
Branden, if it’s not Thierry Henry’s place to call fouls on himself, then it’s not the FAI’s place to demand replays of matches where questionable calls benfit them. If Georgia felt hard done by, then Georgia should have demanded the replay.
See, the bitch about accusation of hypocrisy is that they are easily turned on themselves.
Was it a phantom call? Not exactly, but it was a very, very soft penalty, and could have well been waved on. It also didn’t help Georgia’s cause that they went to shambles after the PK equalized the match and conceded the winner just 12 minutes later.
@phil – but by the same token, the FFF have no obligation to agree to a replay either
@whiz – thats because Robbie Keane is an epic t**t
@NYK: No doubt. I never thought for a moment that Ireland would get a replay anyway, and the calls for it are bordering on the quixotic, at this point. But Roy Keane is just an ass, and for him to use this moment to air his petty grievances is pretty low, even for Roy Keane. I can only imagine what his reaction might have been were he the manager of this Irish team. That would be one for the ages.
Robbie Keane may be an epic t**t, but at least he knows the ball is to be played with the feet.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but douchewaddery aside, he makes some good points. I actually agree with most of what he says.
Although he sounds like one of my professors yelling at a student when their cell phone goes off in class.
I just love seeing the rage synapses firing off when the phone starts ringing.
@Sarah – that was my one concrete rule when I was teaching; if your phone rings in the middle of my lecture I WILL embarrass you
http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/10402364/FIFA:-No-replay-for-France-Ireland-World-Cup-qualifier
SAF weighs in on the handball controversy and takes less than 30 seconds to add… “What about ME?!?!?!” to the dialog.
@NYK, Sarah: The rule for one of my undergrad prof’s was: if your cell phone rings, she gets to answer it, and then you the student have to stand in front of class and have a conversation with whomever was calling.
Oh, and I love Keane’s bitterness and in particular his death glare. I’m working on it in preparation for eventual parenthood.
@EF – that was my rule as well; “if it rings, I answer it”
I completely embarrassed one of my students when his mom called him, and I explained to her that he was in class. I handed him back the phone and everyone could hear her yelling at him for being rude and having his phone on in class
Question for those who were alive in 1999: When the famous Arsenal FA cup tie against Sheff Utd was won under dubious circumstances, with Kanu failing to give the ball back to the Blades after a throw-in (which came from an injury), Wenger called for a replay and they did end up playing the game again. I realize it would have been the English FA who would have awarded that replay; however, under what rules of the game could the FA have granted the replay?
What I’m getting at is that FIFA is saying “NO REPLAY” because their laws of the game state the referee didn’t see the penalty; therefore the game stands. In the Arsenal situation, what did the referee see/not see that allowed the FA to say, “sure, go ahead and replay it”?
Not sure if this question makes sense…if not, feel free to ignore me.
This is an interview with Wenger from the BBC site. Right at the beginning he has perhaps the best quote: “I feel the biggest anger, for me, is that here we are in 2009, sitting here, where 2 billion people see what happened and one guy doesn’t see it and we cannot help him. And that is the most frustrating, with football being the most popular sport in the world and we are still having to endure this kind of mistakes.”
He also supports France allowing a replay “We want to beat Ireland properly, and we didn’t… it wasn’t a referee’s mistake, it was on misconduct on the fairplay side on our side.”
@Eladio — as I remember it, Wenger basically said, “yeah, that was b.s., we’ll be happy to have a replay” and Sheffield united accepted. The FA agreed to the replay immediately (honestly, the right thing to do given the circumstances).
I did a bit of research and apparently FIFA “looked into the situation.” Although it’s out of their perview as the FA chairman noted:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19990221/ai_n14486938/
Best part of that article, for me, is the bit about Marc Overmars at the end, giving his jersey to the mascot (a sheff utd. players’ son) and apologizing for ruining his day. Stuff of legends there
Roy Keane is my new hero.