Roy Keane to leave Man U

[Nigel Irritable]

john hartson
artur boruc
chris sutton...

Are you fucking kidding? Fatty Hartson?

 

[DexterTCN]

Fatty Hartson isn't 35 and doesn't have a dodgy hip.

Remember how Keane talked about Mick McCarthy? What manager would have him?

His legs have gone, only a relegation bound or first division team would have him, and only for the TV money he would generate.

Sunderland?

 

[Chorlton]

it would only serve to increase the popularity of Celtic amongst gloryhunting Irish football fans.

yer like a broken record ya cunt

i wish to apologise on behalf of all celtic fans the world over who broke yer toys when ye were wee, but would you ever give it a fucken rest for two fucken minutes ya tedious, sanctamonious, one fucken issue cunt. Please.

 

[flimsier]

Scottish people don't even write with an accent, you weirdo.

Write properly.

 

[Red Faction]

Are you fucking kidding? Fatty Hartson?

how many goals do u reckon keane could score in the SPL in a season?
how fuckin deluded are you?!!

 

[Iam]

Newcastle will offer £5m and Lee Bowyer to land Alan Smith from Manchester United. (News of the World)

Ha ha.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

 

[rosa]

Jesus wept!!! He actually said that?

i'm afraid so. Obviously it didn't any attention cos the media quite rightly focsed on him bragging about how he deliberately broke Alf Inge Haaland's leg. What a guy,eh?

i reckon hed be better in midfield than our dear old captain lennie

Fair point but do we really need another hard-but-past-it midfielder? We're already spoilt for choice.

 

[Chorlton]

bragging about how he deliberately broke Alf Inge Haaland's leg. What a guy,eh?

for someone who knows his biogrpahy so well you seem to be more than a little out in what the injury to Haaland actually was.

As far as i could tell keanes confession was no worse than michael owens 'red mist' incident in his book - but that michael owen always seemed lieke such a nice lad so its not really discussed like the terrible bog-savage from Kark

 

[cathal marcs]

He's a talented tool but a tool none the less. We are not the epl retirement home. I lost all respect for him when I saw the pictures of him walking the dog while Ireland battled Spain. Big headed tool who knows his glory days are over.

A bit harsh on Keane I think he had every right to stand up for sub standard traing fascilities that the bosses and FAI management were willing to put up with.

Although one thing that pisses me off about Keane is that hed love to play for Celtic but only afetr his man u days. But im more than willing to forgive him if he is willing to come to Celtic on 'relatively' low wages(in Keano terms) and proves hes hear for his passion for Celtic rather than a retirement package. Although will Wee Gordy sign a potential replaement if he doesn't get the results.

 

[Chorlton]

A bit harsh on Keane I think he had every right to stand up for sub standard traing fascilities that the bosses and FAI management were willing to put up with.

Although one thing that pisses me off about Keane is that hed love to play for Celtic but only afetr his man u days. But im more than willing to forgive him if he is willing to come to Celtic on 'relatively' low wages(in Keano terms) and proves hes hear for his passion for Celtic rather than a retirement package. Although will Wee Gordy sign a potential replaement if he doesn't get the results.

agree with that - get him on a pay as you play - to be fair to the big horse he did say a few years ago that he did not want to be disrespectful and talk as if he would come up to end his playing days when he couldn't cut it anywhere else..

 

[rosa]

for someone who knows his biogrpahy so well you seem to be more than a little out in what the injury to Haaland actually was.

Sorry,you're right,it was his cruciate ligament. Which makes it so much better. I apologise and fully expect to be sued for libel.

 

[Chorlton]

Sorry,you're right,it was his cruciate ligament. Which makes it so much better. I apologise and fully expect to be sued for libel.

No need for the rolly eyes its just that you were seeming to come across as well versed in the contents of the book, but that the detail of the injury was somehow lost. It wasn't even the worst challenge i've ever seen - just the one with the most bullshit that seems to be written about it.

 

[aylee]

No need for the rolly eyes its just that you were seeming to come across as well versed in the contents of the book, but that the detail of the injury was somehow lost. It wasn't even the worst challenge i've ever seen - just the one with the most bullshit that seems to be written about it.

He admitted that he set out to injure a fellow professional footballer.

Are you seriously attempting to defend such behaviour?

 

[Chorlton]

He admitted that he set out to injure a fellow professional footballer.

as did michael owen, and wrote about it in his autobiography - he admitted to having a 'red mist' before the game and 'sharpening his studs for battle' he later got sent off for a 2 footed lunge.

tho we hear so much more about keanes tackle than owens - just saying i have seen worse tackles and hes not the first to admit to premeditating a tackle even the golden boy there does it... but keane is the bogeyman... keane had to go to FA hearings, keane got strung out by the press- now you could argue that this is fair enough, but i just wonder why the same villification of Owen didn't take place?

Are you seriously attempting to defend such behaviour?

no, of course not, where are you getting that idea - i'm just saying i've seen worse tackles

 

[Cosmo Topper]

Sorry,you're right,it was his cruciate ligament. Which makes it so much better. I apologise and fully expect to be sued for libel.

Thing is though, and this is something that no papers at the time admitted, Keane hit the *other* knee.

Haaland even admitted after that game that the injury wasn't related to the tackle. But cos it's Keane and a United player, no one wants to admit it. And why did Haaland never sue?

Same as the World Cup thing. Gets painted as a stroppy Keane hanging out his team mates to dry, while he was leaving (in his opinion) a bunch of chancers along for a good time, while he was there to actually win the world cup. And his complaints were pretty valid, even if his response wasn't.

 

[cathal marcs]

Pricksen afer finding out hes marking keano

 

[Chorlton]

Thing is though, and this is something that no papers at the time admitted, Keane hit the *other* knee.

good point and one that is almost always ignored that - Keanes tackle was on Haalands right knee - the injury that wrecked his career was on his left.

also, If the tackle on Haaland had been so bad how come he was able to play 45minutes of a meaningless friendly the following wednesday night?

 

[sleaterkinney]

He admitted that he set out to injure a fellow professional footballer.

Are you seriously attempting to defend such behaviour?

Every footballers does it, apart from Gary Lineker.

 

[aylee]

Every footballers does it, apart from Gary Lineker.

That's utter bollocks.

I'm not saying that Keane is the only one ever to set out to injure someone, but to suggest that they're all out to maim each other is laughable. If they are, they don't do a very good job of it, do they?

 

[rosa]

No need for the rolly eyes its just that you were seeming to come across as well versed in the contents of the book, but that the detail of the injury was somehow lost. It wasn't even the worst challenge i've ever seen - just the one with the most bullshit that seems to be written about it.

i didn't claim to be well versed in the contents of the book,merely commenting on the bits i've had read at me ad nauseum by my mate who thinks the sun shines out of Roy Keane's arse and he can do no wrong (you'd like her).In her defence it's usually been when she's been off her face on coke.Fact still remains that he deliberately set out to injure someone (usually known as grevious bodliy harm) and then made money out of bragging about it.The fact that other players have committed horrible tackles in their time doesn't justify it.

And i can only hope that the rumours about him taking over from Brian Kerr aren't true.

 

[Chorlton]

... (you'd like her)..... she's been off her face on coke.

i doubt it.

(usually known as grevious bodliy harm)

No it fucken isn't - at least not within the realms of a sporting arena i think - at least it certainly shouldn't be unless you really want to kill the game off. You start going down this path rosa you start opening the game up to lawsuits and you will destroy the game

had this game destroyed his careeer it would bee easier to see your point

had this game prevented him from playing meaningless friendlies a matter of days later you might have had a point - but it was a bad challenge - they happen all the time the fact that he has claimed it was pre-meditated is neither here nor there - there are plenty of pre-meditated challenges go on in the game

and then made money out of bragging about it.

as has michael owen, to take just one example... i'm sure there are plenty more

And i can only hope that the rumours about him taking over from Brian Kerr aren't true.

Rosa - so you have a gak-fuelled friend that talks shite about roy keane, i don't particularly care for man either here or there, i certainly don't think the man can do no wrong.What i do object to however is the demonisation of him by people who are either lacking or willfully ignoring the basic facts of what it is they are talking about.

He did not break a mans leg

He did not ruin his career

he did claim it was pre-meditated

no different to plenty of other players, however only one has been villified in this way for it...

thats all.

 

[sleaterkinney]

That's utter bollocks.

I'm not saying that Keane is the only one ever to set out to injure someone, but to suggest that they're all out to maim each other is laughable. If they are, they don't do a very good job of it, do they?

Sorry, it's not. It happens most games, at every level, If you played football you would recognise people going in late, leaving their foot in etc, it's just part of the game.

 

[christonabike]

Fucking true

 

[rosa]

No it fucken isn't - at least not within the realms of a sporting arena i think - at least it certainly shouldn't be unless you really want to kill the game off. You start going down this path rosa you start opening the game up to lawsuits and you will destroy the game

It does happen though,Duncan Ferguson was jailed for headbutting John McStay when he was at Rangers.

as has michael owen, to take just one example... i'm sure there are plenty more

the only example other than Michael Owen that i can think of is Iwan Thomas,and he got fined £2500 for it.

no different to plenty of other players, however only one has been villified in this way for it...

So you're seriously suggesting that John Fashanu didn't get villified for his tackle on Gary Mabbutt,Vinnie Jones didn't get villified for....well,pretty much his entire career,Lee Bowyer didn't get villified for stamping on that Malaga player?
Admittedly,the only player we're having a go at on this thread is Roy Keane.That's probably because it's a thread about Roy Keane.

 

[Chorlton]

It does happen though,Duncan Ferguson was jailed for headbutting John McStay when he was at Rangers.

i'm well aware of that but what are you saying here? this is a good thing? You would like to see more of this?

You have made it clear that; in your mind Roy Keane; is guilty of GBH

you are now pointing out that drunken got the jail for a headbutt

i just want to be clear here that i'm not reading you wrong - are you advotcatting that keane should be facing legal reprecussions for his actions? Is this the way that you would like to see football go where footballers are held to account in front of courts? Or is this all a grudge against that nasty kark savage because yer gak-addled mate talks about him too much?

 

[rosa]

No,at the risk of repeating myself,i'm trying to point out that individual footballers and their clubs have been sued for vicious challenges on numerous occasions,that on rare occasions criminal charges - rightly or wrongly - have been brought against the player involved,and that being on a football pitch does not give someone carte blanche to set out to injure someone.I don't think that making that point-or criticising Roy Keane on a thread about Roy Keane-constitutes a grudge,and it certainly is not down to my "gak-addled friend".

 

[Chorlton]

i suggest then that we are going round in cricles and this is best left....

 

[aylee]

Sorry, it's not. It happens most games, at every level, If you played football you would recognise people going in late, leaving their foot in etc, it's just part of the game.

We were talking about professional football rather than thuggish cloggers in the park who foul deliberately because they're too slow/incompetent to stop the opposition any other way.

I don't believe that significant numbers of professioanl players actually set out to injure the opposition.