Richard Keys: The Ramblings of a Madman

Gopher Brown said:
Still nobody has presented any specific arguments to persuade me otherwise. Wigan punched above their weight for years.

I’m not saying he’s the solution or even he should be at the top of the pile, but I fail to see why many of you are scoffing at the very suggestion like someone is suggesting Paul Lambert or someone.
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He relegated Wigan and was going the same way with Everton before they sacked him. All while telling us how magnificently they were doing.

What else do you need?
 
The diferrence between the quality of insight between Richard Keys, Andy Gray, and Paul Robinson is huge.

Keys is still harping on about getting Martinez in to replace Mourinho.
Gray wants Zidane and justified Martinez' appointment.
Robinson wants to actually focus on the game and immediately ridiculed the thought of appointing Martinez at Utd.
 
This guy doesn't pull any punches.

Gray had to take a bow of his own of course, after studio footage emerged of him making unsolicited and unwanted lewd comments to female colleagues in the Sky Sports studio, and so he fled hand-in-hairy-hand with Keys to Doha. Since 2013 they’ve been haunting the screens of English football fans in the Middle East, each year becoming more bloated, embittered and irrelevant, inviting a rotating cast of chancers, every one more insalubrious than the last, pitifully trading their dignity for the Qatari riyal as their bodies and minds decline in the most public way imaginable.
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https://thatsliquidfootball.com/201...ing-the-propaganda-war-against-the-toon-army/
 
I had an anixety attack listening to Richard Keys asking if Roy Keane was a great player.
 
FujiVice said:
I had an anixety attack listening to Richard Keys asking if Roy Keane was a great player.
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Gray looks like he's thoughtfully perusing porn. "Hmm, yes. Yes. I would do that one. But not the other one."
 
Nothing wrong with what Jason McAteer said. I don't know why people don't like him.
 
Prometheus said:
Nothing wrong with what Jason McAteer said. I don't know why people don't like him.
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It's like people didn't actually watch the clip.

Its what keys said that is nonsense.
Surprised he didn't try and say batty was better
 
Apparently only players with attacking qualities can be 'great' players. Keys make Keane sound like Mark Noble with better leadership qualities. Someone considered possibly our most influential footballer under Sir Alex during our greatest ever era, is not a great player. Because he doesn't beat defenders like Eden Hazard or Silva. Bewilderingly lacking in logic.
 
Oh my god....Souness would have had him in his pocket ? Why because he was from a different era ?


What was so great about Keane ? For about four years he didn't produce a performance below 8/10. He dictated the tempo of the game, against everyone. If Keane wanted us to play high tempo he set it, when he wanted it slowed down, he slowed it. He read the game. And controlled it. In a team that dominated and won everything he was THE single biggest factor.
 
Keys is a fecking weapon.

But really that's what football has become, fans and pundits are so overly concerned with goals created and goals scored that they are the only "stats" a lot of people focus on when talking about great players.
 
If you have Roy Keane in your team, you already have a mental advantage over your opposition because of his fierce reputation as a competitor. If you're on the same team as him, you've got a teammate who could dictate play and lead by example and you definitely don't want to get on the wrong side of him.

Without Roy, United wouldn't have won as much. Same with Liverpool as if we didn't have Souness or Gerrard in their respective eras, we wouldn't have won as much.

There's so much that goes into making a great footballer. The mental side of it is so underrated. If Pogba had that same mental edge as a Keane or a Viera, he'd be a bloody scary prospect for any team.
 
The Bloody-Nine said:
He relegated Wigan and was going the same way with Everton before they sacked him. All while telling us how magnificently they were doing.

What else do you need?
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To be fair, he was also a Lukaku missed penalty away from likely winning the cup with Everton too which would be two cup wins with underdog teams. He has also just led Belgium to their best showing in a knockout tournament where they finally showed some world class form against world class opposition. He seems to have a flair for cup tournaments.
 
That's just embarrassing. Roy Keane was one of the all time greatest captains ever, to try and say he wasn't world class is mental. He should be sectioned.
 
SuperiorXI said:
Roy Keane was one of the all time greatest captains ever, to try and say he wasn't world class is mental. He should be sectioned.
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Yes, but what about Keys?
 
Snash93 said:
If you have Roy Keane in your team, you already have a mental advantage over your opposition because of his fierce reputation as a competitor. If you're on the same team as him, you've got a teammate who could dictate play and lead by example and you definitely don't want to get on the wrong side of him.

Without Roy, United wouldn't have won as much. Same with Liverpool as if we didn't have Souness or Gerrard in their respective eras, we wouldn't have won as much.

There's so much that goes into making a great footballer. The mental side of it is so underrated. If Pogba had that same mental edge as a Keane or a Viera, he'd be a bloody scary prospect for any team.
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sorry mate, this really made me laugh
 
Did Richard Keys just compare Glenn Hoddle and Peter Reid favourably to Roy Keane. That is utterly ludicrous. It's like saying Beardsley was better than Maradona!
 
Keys is a grade-A bellend. Keane was a magnificent footballer by any metric you apply to a midfielder of his type. His touch was outstanding, his passing exquisite and he possessed an innate ability to dictate the tempo of a game, sensing when things needed to be sped up or slowed down.
 
His entire existence is about winding people up. He intentionally takes stupid sides of arguments to a hieve that goal.
 
Hes utterly stupid. His definition of a "great player" seems to be someone with flair. Wouldn't be suprised if he ranks Lee Trundle higher.

Even Gray and Mcateer were both looking at eachother thinking how stupid he was.
 
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Buchan said:
Keys is a grade-A bellend. Keane was a magnificent footballer by any metric you apply to a midfielder of his type. His touch was outstanding, his passing exquisite and he possessed an innate ability to dictate the tempo of a game, sensing when things needed to be sped up or slowed down.
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Not sure if metric is the right word there, but I get what you mean.
 
Football Pantheon ranked him as the 82nd greatest football player of all time, probably the only place where I've ever seen him get his just rewards for being such an influential winner. That would probably make him a top 20 player of his generation which is more than fair if not underrating him slightly.
 
It is bit sad that Keane's aggression and leadership qualities tend to obscure his talent as a footballer. He had a great first touch, was comfortable passing with either foot, had a high pass completion (I remember reading it was second place in the league in 1999) and frequently averaged 88-90%. He was a really well-rounded player that together with Vieira dominated the premier league era for a good 7 or 8 years. Those two were always far above anyone else in England in terms of central midfielders and they were the benchmark. Players like Gary Speed, Gerrard, and Lampard have all said the same.
 
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