A very interesting Article in todays Mirror, slightly long but worth a read:
(ive removed this from the liability thread as it was taking long enough to load!)
"The first wave of bile has come and gone and now the slow minds of Middle England are starting to click and whirr and crank into their knuckle-dragging mob mentality.
Oh yeah the apocalyptic garbage about Roy keane is piling up so high you need more than wings to stay above it. You need a lift from captain Kirk.
Okay, so the guy behaved like a bloody idiot at the stadium of light on saturday when he elbowed jason mcateer in the side of the face.
he deserved to be sent off, he deserves some of the criticism for an act of violence and he deserves the 3 match ban.
And no it doesnt seem right that he should serve it while he's recovering from a hip operation.
What he didnt deserve is the cesspool of self-righteous,self-important,misguided,deluded,lazy,pack-driven,pompous, pretentious attempts at character assassination that have been aimed his way since.
Keane gets his first red card for 12 months and suddenly all sorts of morons are climbing out of the woodwork saying he needs to be locked up in a rubber bedroom.
they say they are concerned for his state of mind.
The guy takes his dog for a walk now and again and its presented as a sure sign hes teetering on the verge of a nervous breakdown. If Cantona was annointed an idiot because he used a metaphor about seagulls following trawlers, keanes barking because he walks the dog and tells the truth in a book. How crazy can you get?
Funny these people should only target keane. Strange that we didnt hear them saying the same thing about patrick viera the next day. Nobody questions his sanity, says he needs help, says he might be about to crack up, or that he should be packed off to the funny farm.
Strange too that Alan Smith should be described admiringly as 'combative' after his england call-up this week whereas keane is widely referred to as 'brutal'
And then there is what keane did to Phil Neville. that seems to have provoked considerable alarm within the minds of sensitive flowers like Alan Hansen.
lets forget for a second that keane apologised to neville in the dressing room for giving him a shove. Instead, lets remember how we reacted when Aliou Cisse gave his birmingham team-mate robbie savage a good hard push during the match with leeds. That kinds of passion, everyone agreed, would stand Birmingham in good stead this season. Not many sides will out-muscle them. Good on you Aliou.
Hansen was having none of that as he told us in his new column in the Daily telegraph. the one ironically that had wanted keane to write for them until he told them where to stick it.
"Examining keanes track record" hansen wrote "we could be in a situation where at some stage this player is judged no longer fit to captain Man Utd"
Right Alan. And who was your captain during the glory years at Anfield? Oh yeah, a certain scottish chap called Greame Souness, well known for being a shrinking violet.
You only needed to read Vinnie Jones in the Times the same day. "All this about Roy keane wanting to do people" Vinnie said. "He never did that. He aint a Jimmy Case or a Souness. They would come and f*****g sort you out"
So either Hansen remonstrated with his captain on a day to day basis, telling him the kind of retribution he dished out on a weekly basis just jolly well wasnt acceptable or he's near the front of the queue when it comes to doling out hypocrisy.
Only ITV's Andy Townsend had the guts to inject a little perspective into proceedings. He'd commited far worse crimes than keanes elbow he said, pointing out that if Keane had meant to cause him any serious harm, mcateer would not have got up.
All in all, keane has probably taken the only sensible course of action. with all those lunatics raging outside, a hospital is the safest place for him."
(ive removed this from the liability thread as it was taking long enough to load!)
"The first wave of bile has come and gone and now the slow minds of Middle England are starting to click and whirr and crank into their knuckle-dragging mob mentality.
Oh yeah the apocalyptic garbage about Roy keane is piling up so high you need more than wings to stay above it. You need a lift from captain Kirk.
Okay, so the guy behaved like a bloody idiot at the stadium of light on saturday when he elbowed jason mcateer in the side of the face.
he deserved to be sent off, he deserves some of the criticism for an act of violence and he deserves the 3 match ban.
And no it doesnt seem right that he should serve it while he's recovering from a hip operation.
What he didnt deserve is the cesspool of self-righteous,self-important,misguided,deluded,lazy,pack-driven,pompous, pretentious attempts at character assassination that have been aimed his way since.
Keane gets his first red card for 12 months and suddenly all sorts of morons are climbing out of the woodwork saying he needs to be locked up in a rubber bedroom.
they say they are concerned for his state of mind.
The guy takes his dog for a walk now and again and its presented as a sure sign hes teetering on the verge of a nervous breakdown. If Cantona was annointed an idiot because he used a metaphor about seagulls following trawlers, keanes barking because he walks the dog and tells the truth in a book. How crazy can you get?
Funny these people should only target keane. Strange that we didnt hear them saying the same thing about patrick viera the next day. Nobody questions his sanity, says he needs help, says he might be about to crack up, or that he should be packed off to the funny farm.
Strange too that Alan Smith should be described admiringly as 'combative' after his england call-up this week whereas keane is widely referred to as 'brutal'
And then there is what keane did to Phil Neville. that seems to have provoked considerable alarm within the minds of sensitive flowers like Alan Hansen.
lets forget for a second that keane apologised to neville in the dressing room for giving him a shove. Instead, lets remember how we reacted when Aliou Cisse gave his birmingham team-mate robbie savage a good hard push during the match with leeds. That kinds of passion, everyone agreed, would stand Birmingham in good stead this season. Not many sides will out-muscle them. Good on you Aliou.
Hansen was having none of that as he told us in his new column in the Daily telegraph. the one ironically that had wanted keane to write for them until he told them where to stick it.
"Examining keanes track record" hansen wrote "we could be in a situation where at some stage this player is judged no longer fit to captain Man Utd"
Right Alan. And who was your captain during the glory years at Anfield? Oh yeah, a certain scottish chap called Greame Souness, well known for being a shrinking violet.
You only needed to read Vinnie Jones in the Times the same day. "All this about Roy keane wanting to do people" Vinnie said. "He never did that. He aint a Jimmy Case or a Souness. They would come and f*****g sort you out"
So either Hansen remonstrated with his captain on a day to day basis, telling him the kind of retribution he dished out on a weekly basis just jolly well wasnt acceptable or he's near the front of the queue when it comes to doling out hypocrisy.
Only ITV's Andy Townsend had the guts to inject a little perspective into proceedings. He'd commited far worse crimes than keanes elbow he said, pointing out that if Keane had meant to cause him any serious harm, mcateer would not have got up.
All in all, keane has probably taken the only sensible course of action. with all those lunatics raging outside, a hospital is the safest place for him."
