Roy Keane interview on the Overlap
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Nice one. Didn’t know about his dust up with Schmeichel over the captaincy.
Also loved the bit at the end where Neville asks, “you don’t talk about your kids” and Keane goes “what about them?”
Also loved the bit at the end where Neville asks, “you don’t talk about your kids” and Keane goes “what about them?”
Dalglish threatening him over the phone when he chose United over Blackburn was hilarious
Just listened to his '2nd half' book yesterday funnily enough. Good listen, and he repeats a few bits in this interview.
The Dalgliesh thing was amazing and I somehow never knew he was a Spurs fan as a youngster. Spurs .. how weird is that.
The Dalgliesh thing was amazing and I somehow never knew he was a Spurs fan as a youngster. Spurs .. how weird is that.
I don't how Roy Keane manages to look better the older he gets. Not younger, just better. Fascinating.
And he says he just goes on long walks.
Brilliant. Great gang. RK, Wright, Carragher and Neville. I don’t know the female presenter.
It's the best, long walks with your dog. Like Keano did.
guilty as charged!
Well done to Nev for getting Roy Keane to say something positive about Sir Alex, and making it not seem like he was having to drag it out of him.
I love Wrighty but he was annoying on this one, cutting off Keano constantly. Luckily Roy would pick up the thread again most times despite the tangent, it felt at times we were going to lose out on some interesting anecdote because Wrighty kept randomly changing the subject. To be fair I think he might have slight ADHD or something, he certainly wasn't doing it to be a prick as he clearly loves Roy.
The thing about him wanting to get back into management but accepting it won't happen is kind of sad. I recently watched a video where he had just gotten back into it with Villa/Ireland and was saying punditry wasn't for him, he wanted to impact the game in a meaningful way etc. and seemed to really mean it. Now that fire just seems to be a tiny flicker. He seems happy though and that's the main thing.
I love Wrighty but he was annoying on this one, cutting off Keano constantly. Luckily Roy would pick up the thread again most times despite the tangent, it felt at times we were going to lose out on some interesting anecdote because Wrighty kept randomly changing the subject. To be fair I think he might have slight ADHD or something, he certainly wasn't doing it to be a prick as he clearly loves Roy.
The thing about him wanting to get back into management but accepting it won't happen is kind of sad. I recently watched a video where he had just gotten back into it with Villa/Ireland and was saying punditry wasn't for him, he wanted to impact the game in a meaningful way etc. and seemed to really mean it. Now that fire just seems to be a tiny flicker. He seems happy though and that's the main thing.
This is exactly what irritates me about Carl Anka on the Talk of the Devils podcast. Don't know if you listen to it
Andy or Laurie will be saying something interesting like "And the information is that they want to announce plans for the future of the stadium by.." and then Carl Anka will decide to choose that moment to blurt out some pointless shit like "Oh yeah.. Inverted wingers. First line press. Double Pivot." and then the subject drifts.
Jill Scott (ex Lioness) - she's a great addition. If you've watched A League of their Own Road Trip. She's become a mainstay in the last season and has been great value there as well.
Roy in general is really excellent at all this TV stuff.
It's all about the beard. Look at him from 10 years ago man looked like a hobo.
She’s brilliant. Brings a real emotional heart to everything. She’s also very grounded by way of the fact she’s not filthy rich.
Still learning on the job though. And hearing her try patiently to ask a question, instead of just talking over people is often frustrating. She’ll start a question, be interrupted, and then wait for several minutes. By which point the convo has moved on.
Read the comments here before I watched but didn't notice the Ian Wright cutting off with random tangents that you folks described. He was the main interviewer and he asked new questions when the topic had come to a natural pause.
Jull Scott saying its sounds like 'Taken' I will find you
It's good for the soul. Fresh air, nice countryside with a bit of good weather..it's mustard.
Absolutely, cleanses both body and soul.
I remember reading somewhere his favourite player as a kid was Glenn Hoddle so makes sense he liked Spurs.
Makes sense from his generation as well since I imagine growing up in the 70s, there’s probably plenty of people who liked Spurs as Spurs and United were probably the two best English teams across the 60s.
Interesting, makes sense.
I skimmed through a good portion of that video - really interesting insight into how Keane operated as a player, even down to not having an agent for a part of it.
yeah even as a young man, stark contrast to current players can barely do anything without an agent
Keane going back on a handshake deal is a surprise.
I think during that interview/chat Keane did seem a bit, not disappointed, but Ian Wright mentioned it that a handshake is a bond, and he showed a little that he didn't maybe honour it in the way he perhaps should have.
Great episode. Loved Roy talking about his upbringing and the efforts he took in trying to establish a career in the sport.
Extremely humble individual.
Regarding Wright's questioning and general control of the interview to be perfectly fine and relaxed.
Found Neville irritating though.
Constantly insistent on Keane saying something positive about SAF.
The class of 92 need to understand not every player that played under SAF is going to kiss the great guys ass everytime a Mike is put in front of them.
Keane has his issues regarding his departure and they're perfectly reasonable ones too.
Great to hear Keane and Schmikes have made up.
Extremely humble individual.
Regarding Wright's questioning and general control of the interview to be perfectly fine and relaxed.
Found Neville irritating though.
Constantly insistent on Keane saying something positive about SAF.
The class of 92 need to understand not every player that played under SAF is going to kiss the great guys ass everytime a Mike is put in front of them.
Keane has his issues regarding his departure and they're perfectly reasonable ones too.
Great to hear Keane and Schmikes have made up.
I laugh when you see people mentioning Gerard and lampard as the best midfielders to have played in the league. Keane was on a different planet. Keane was the standout in a team that had Paul Scholes in it. And Scholes was better than Lampard and Gerrard too.
Aye, easily the best midfielder in the English league over the last 30 years and one of the best in the world in that time too.
Yeah, 100% this. Gerrard was good, but he wasn't close to either one of Keane/Scholes.
It's the same contingent who think Bruno is some midfield god. Some people think football is just goals and assists ignoring the multitude of things that don't show up on a stat sheet.
What a great player and captain.One of the best tributes I heard about Keane came from Mourinho via Mario Rosenstock .
Jose was a big fan of Rosenstock's so the Chelsea team organized Rosenstock to do a private gig in their Liverpool hotel the night before they played Everton.
The gig went well, everyone had a good laugh and after the players had gone to bed Mario had a chat with Jose.
The mood was lighthearted. Mario asked Jose if he could sign just one player to improve his team who would it be.
Roy Keane was the instant reply.
Why ? Asked Mario.
Suddenly Jose's face changed, he became deadly serious and said
Because Roy Keane is invincible '.
Jose was a big fan of Rosenstock's so the Chelsea team organized Rosenstock to do a private gig in their Liverpool hotel the night before they played Everton.
The gig went well, everyone had a good laugh and after the players had gone to bed Mario had a chat with Jose.
The mood was lighthearted. Mario asked Jose if he could sign just one player to improve his team who would it be.
Roy Keane was the instant reply.
Why ? Asked Mario.
Suddenly Jose's face changed, he became deadly serious and said
Because Roy Keane is invincible '.
Invincible is a great way to describe his playing style. That’s what it felt like watching Roy playing, no matter who he was going up against, you expected Keane to get the better of them. At the very worst it was going to be a 50/50 battle.
My fav player of all time. Maybe it’s the green tinted glasses seeing as my second and third fav players of all time are McGrath and Irwin. (Maldini and VanBasten rounding off the top 5 until the next two Irish world class players come along.
)Robbo was better than all of them. I wished he had been 17 when he come to Utd, so he could have had more trophies, as he deserved.
Jose needed certain characteristics in his players to be successful, that's why he's dropped off as such players are very rare now.