I wish I could shrink myself so I could curl up in a ball and just live in Keano's beard.
Roy Keane
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We should have a thread for Keano's beard
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/roy-keane-autobiography-live-most-4389601
Stuff be released today. Big bit about him and Schmeichel.
Stuff be released today. Big bit about him and Schmeichel.
Ah, boys will be boys.
But, unforgiving waking up Sir Bobby. :x
But, unforgiving waking up Sir Bobby. :x
Keane on Rio Ferdinand's missed drugs test
“He [Rio] suffered for it and so did the team. If it had been me, and the doctor had said I had to do a drugs test, I'd have gone and done it. It wasn't something I'd have forgotten.
"It wouldn't have been like collecting a letter at the office, or remembering your boots. When a doctor says you've got to do a drugs test, it's not an everyday thing. But then, some people are genuinely forgetful."
"I don't think I was annoyed a the time, and I don't think the other players were either. But, ultimately, the team suffered. I didn't look at Rio and think that he'd been up to no good, or that there was a hidden reason for what had occurred.
"I think he genuinely forgot. We paid the price. He was a very good player and we missed him, especially in the second half of the season when the crunch games were coming up.”
“He [Rio] suffered for it and so did the team. If it had been me, and the doctor had said I had to do a drugs test, I'd have gone and done it. It wasn't something I'd have forgotten.
"It wouldn't have been like collecting a letter at the office, or remembering your boots. When a doctor says you've got to do a drugs test, it's not an everyday thing. But then, some people are genuinely forgetful."
"I don't think I was annoyed a the time, and I don't think the other players were either. But, ultimately, the team suffered. I didn't look at Rio and think that he'd been up to no good, or that there was a hidden reason for what had occurred.
"I think he genuinely forgot. We paid the price. He was a very good player and we missed him, especially in the second half of the season when the crunch games were coming up.”
Wow, could you imagine if there had been video of that. It would have been amazing.
I can only imagine Butt in shirt with stripes egging them on.
Got to love Roy Keane no matter who you support.
"Peter took responsibility for the fight, which was good. I admired him for it. But Sir Bobby could have tried to break it up."
Bit of an odd opinion from Keane! Doubt it's top of a 60 odd year old mans list to break up a fight between them 2.
There is, it's called Pacific Rim.
Love Keano, but how the hell could he expect Sir Bobby to break up a drunken fight between Schmeichel and Keane?
fecking love that.
For some reason I feel more comfortable with Keano staying a complete cnut rather than being some "reformed character" who doesn't stop talking about regretting his past.
I can't even imagine Sir Bobby Charlton breaking up the fight betwen Keane and Schmeichel.
edit: On second thoughts, it shows the respect that he has for Sir Bobby.
Some quotes are mint tbf.
edit: On second thoughts, it shows the respect that he has for Sir Bobby.
Some quotes are mint tbf.
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Keane famously turned Queiroz’ question of loyalty back on the Portuguese coach, saying: “You left this club after 12 months a few years ago for the Real Madrid job. Don’t you dare question my loyalty. I had opportunities to go to Juventus and Bayern Munich. And while we’re at it we spoke about training downstairs. And were just on about mixing things up in training a bit.”
From there however, it would seem that Keane could not hold his tongue any longer. Keane raised the prospect of mixing up the squad’s training routine. And after Queiroz protested that players instead needed repetition, the Express report:
“Keane replied by asking him if he always made love to his wife in the same position.”
That’s when Ferguson stopped the argument, but Keane would not to be hushed:
“You as well gaffer. We need fecking more from you. We need a bit more, gaffer. We’re slipping behind other teams.”
Edwin Van Der Sar, who had just joined the club the previous June was, according to Keane, the only player to object to his scathing assertions on MUTV by suggesting a ‘different tone’ might have been taken.
“Edwin, why don’t you shut the feck up? You’ve been at this club for two minutes and you’ve done more interviews than I’ve done in my 12 years. It was MUTV – I had to do it.”
Two days after the meeting when Keane was summoned (via his agent Michael Kennedy) to a meeting with Ferguson and chief executive David Gill. The club captain knew his fate was as good as sealed: “They’re going to try and get rid of me.”
However, he was still shocked at how prepared Gill, Ferguson and the club were for the parting of the ways, illustrated by a prepared written statement that was ready to go before Keane had been told his future.
“They had it all ready. It was another little hand grenade they threw at me. Not an hour later, or two hours, or after the severance negotiations – it was already written.
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Keane went on to give an interview to MUTV criticising many of his team-mates, following a 4-1 loss to Middlesbrough. Ferguson subsequently dropped the midfielder from a reserve game, ending the Irishman's Manchester United career.
"I said to Ferguson, ‘Can I play for somebody else?’ And he said, ‘Yeah you can, cos we’re tearing up your contract’ So I thought, All right – I’ll get fixed up. I knew there’d be clubs in for me when the news got out. I said, ‘Yeah – I think we have come to the end.’ I just thought, ‘F***ing prick’ – and I stood up and went ‘Yeah. I’m off.”
There were attempts of a reconciliation, but this ultimately failed, one Keane regret.
“Now I kind of wish I hadn’t. Afterwards I was thinking, ‘I’m not sure why I fecking apologised.’ I just wanted to do the right thing. I was apologising for what had happened – that it had happened. But I wasn’t apologising for my behaviour or stance. There’s a difference – I had nothing to apologise for.”
From there however, it would seem that Keane could not hold his tongue any longer. Keane raised the prospect of mixing up the squad’s training routine. And after Queiroz protested that players instead needed repetition, the Express report:
“Keane replied by asking him if he always made love to his wife in the same position.”
That’s when Ferguson stopped the argument, but Keane would not to be hushed:
“You as well gaffer. We need fecking more from you. We need a bit more, gaffer. We’re slipping behind other teams.”
Edwin Van Der Sar, who had just joined the club the previous June was, according to Keane, the only player to object to his scathing assertions on MUTV by suggesting a ‘different tone’ might have been taken.
“Edwin, why don’t you shut the feck up? You’ve been at this club for two minutes and you’ve done more interviews than I’ve done in my 12 years. It was MUTV – I had to do it.”
Two days after the meeting when Keane was summoned (via his agent Michael Kennedy) to a meeting with Ferguson and chief executive David Gill. The club captain knew his fate was as good as sealed: “They’re going to try and get rid of me.”
However, he was still shocked at how prepared Gill, Ferguson and the club were for the parting of the ways, illustrated by a prepared written statement that was ready to go before Keane had been told his future.
“They had it all ready. It was another little hand grenade they threw at me. Not an hour later, or two hours, or after the severance negotiations – it was already written.
_____________________________________________
Keane went on to give an interview to MUTV criticising many of his team-mates, following a 4-1 loss to Middlesbrough. Ferguson subsequently dropped the midfielder from a reserve game, ending the Irishman's Manchester United career.
"I said to Ferguson, ‘Can I play for somebody else?’ And he said, ‘Yeah you can, cos we’re tearing up your contract’ So I thought, All right – I’ll get fixed up. I knew there’d be clubs in for me when the news got out. I said, ‘Yeah – I think we have come to the end.’ I just thought, ‘F***ing prick’ – and I stood up and went ‘Yeah. I’m off.”
There were attempts of a reconciliation, but this ultimately failed, one Keane regret.
“Now I kind of wish I hadn’t. Afterwards I was thinking, ‘I’m not sure why I fecking apologised.’ I just wanted to do the right thing. I was apologising for what had happened – that it had happened. But I wasn’t apologising for my behaviour or stance. There’s a difference – I had nothing to apologise for.”
"They had it all ready. It was another little hand grenade they threw at me. Not an hour later, or two hours, or after the severance negotiations – it was already written."
Well, if they called you with that idea in mind, of course they'll have it ready. That's just good preparation.
Well, if they called you with that idea in mind, of course they'll have it ready. That's just good preparation.
Jaysus, it's looking like there's no holding him back at all this time.
I hope the weather isn't to bad on Wednesday night as I'm planning on sleeping outside Easons so that I can get this book as early as possible.
I hope the weather isn't to bad on Wednesday night as I'm planning on sleeping outside Easons so that I can get this book as early as possible.
Mrs K must be either very patient or very formidable.
And I don't believe he didn't NOT have some kind of 'word' in the shell-like of Adrian Chiles
And I don't believe he didn't NOT have some kind of 'word' in the shell-like of Adrian Chiles
He doesn't half come across as a man who makes something out of nothing. Why did he feel the need to say that about Van Der Sar just because he suggested he could've used a different tone? And he still seems surprised that the manager let him go?
Yeah, chances are he's probably afraid of his living shite of Threasa. She'll put the conheader on him.
"The charges hurt me - the idea I'd bragged . . in hope of selling extra books"
It's terrible, Roy. What these people will to do or say just to sell more books.
Terrible.
It's terrible, Roy. What these people will to do or say just to sell more books.
Terrible.
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well played, well played.
If anything his latest comments prove that Saf was right to get rid of him.
His dismissal was completely his fault.
His dismissal was completely his fault.
Caught a bit of those quotes by journos, can't wait to read this as well. Love him
I sincerely doubt Roy said "Make love"...
"If it had come to a fight, Patrick could probably have killed me."
That's kinda disappointing. Tough as nails Keane to be beaten by anyone, let alone Patrick?
Man, you fought Big Dane and survived!
That's kinda disappointing. Tough as nails Keane to be beaten by anyone, let alone Patrick?
Man, you fought Big Dane and survived!
Keane was quite mental on and off the field.
I loved Keane (the player at least), but the success in 2006-09 proved that SAF was ultimately right. Keane didn't do much at Celtic. His time was up.
He is downplaying a bit just like in the documentary, Viera is a beast though whereas Keane is just fecking tough.
Keano's the type of lad at secondary school who puts everyone else off from playing.
It sounds like he was just running around Old Trafford in his final few days trying to get as many F*ck you's in as possible to everyone in his path. It's like a plot for an episode of South Park.
Seemed to have gone slightly mental in his last year. I mean there's the stories of him lambasting Rooney and Pique from their accounts.
Think you've got the wrong end of the stick there.
Keane was accused of bragging about injuring Haaland to sell more books (incident was mentioned in an earlier bio)