Roy Keane is a bad example to kids.

Still think you can't get away from the dilemma Murt poses that here is a penalty for telling the truth.......keep yer mouth shut & boast in later life that you got away with it... <img src="graemlins/nono.gif" border="0" alt="[No No]" />
 
Originally posted by redmad:
<strong>Still think you can't get away from the dilemma Murt poses that here is a penalty for telling the truth.......keep yer mouth shut & boast in later life that you got away with it... <img src="graemlins/nono.gif" border="0" alt="[No No]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>


<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/2331499.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/2331499.stm</a>

Some good points!
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Yeah, fully recognise there are 2 sides to the argument but keano seems to have been judged on the one side only IMO...there ARE freedom of speech issues here as well as "bringing the game into dispute" ones....Keane has doubtless said nothing that will be a revelation to any pro footballer. These things are givens & if you can't talk about them after the fact, well....
Perhaps diplomatic immunity should apply to autobiographies ;)
 
Of course, had Mr. Keane not engaged in a senseless act of thuggery and belated revenge for having missed the first time, none of this would have happened.

Now, if only O.J. Simpson would be so honest.
 
You can't put these kind of acts, done in the context of competetive sports, in the same context as Murder for cryin' out loud...its not a matter of excusing Keano either btw...if you are going to sort it out do so on the pitch & if you can't do that why come down so hard on the person who has the guts to admit what the majority do incl himself within the game...
 
For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it my way!


GOD BLESS ROY KEANE
 
Now, if only O.J. Simpson would be so honest.

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Originally posted by sutty:
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"Read Keano's autobiography where the no nonsense footballer tells it how it is"...

fa: "you're gonna get banned for that, Roy"
Roy: "Shit, it was all nonsense, it was totally different to that"

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'kin liar ain't he?
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What I find staggering is Keane has essentially sold us out on this one. He has had a nice break and earnt a few million quid for his retirement fund... he has got off scott free, only the club and her reputation have suffered... and yet a large number of supporters think the sun shines out of his arse still.

Sir Matt will be turning in his grave.
 
Originally posted by redmad:
<strong>Still think you can't get away from the dilemma Murt poses that here is a penalty for telling the truth.......keep yer mouth shut & boast in later life that you got away with it... <img src="graemlins/nono.gif" border="0" alt="[No No]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>

Bollocks. He's paying the penalty for mouthing off about a grubby private matter for money, and rightly so. Stam got sacked for less.

This business about 'telling the truth' - telling the truth to expose an injustice or set the record straight takes guts and character. Keane's 'truths' aren't in the same class and one demeans the idea of truth by trying to make an equivalence.

Keane told the truth to line his own pockets. This was a grubby thing he did and he's been rightly punished.

Now hopefully he's taken his punishment, we can put this behind us and get behind Roy again when he's back, coz he deserves it.
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Originally posted by Forza Viola:
<strong>What I find staggering is Keane has essentially sold us out on this one. He has had a nice break and earnt a few million quid for his retirement fund... he has got off scott free, only the club and her reputation have suffered... and yet a large number of supporters think the sun shines out of his arse still.

Sir Matt will be turning in his grave.</strong><hr></blockquote>


Fcuk off, have you seen this man play for us, any supporter who gives a rats arse what the media machine think doesn't deserved to be called a supporter.

Judge Keane for what he has done for us on the pitch, all else is meaningless............
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Originally posted by Murt:
<strong>yep kiddies, remember
whatever you do,

DONT TELL THE TRUTH
:mad: </strong><hr></blockquote>

Very bad example... hope that he'll be a new man when he comes back...
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Originally posted by seanoc:
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Fcuk off, have you seen this man play for us, any supporter who gives a rats arse what the media machine think doesn't deserved to be called a supporter.

Judge Keane for what he has done for us on the pitch, all else is meaningless............</strong><hr></blockquote>

If it was the "media machine" then fine. It wasn't. The entire situation was manufactured by one man alone, a Mr Roy Keane. He was the one who crippled himself originally with a moment of petulance and cost us a seasons football. He was the one who went to get "revenge" a couple of years later, costing us another few games. He was the one who decided to brag about it - note the difference between confessing... he was bragging - in a bid to line his pockets and thus misses another few games...

Nobody but Keane is too blame for any of the above, nobody in the media created the situations, and no one has benefitted in the slightest.
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Nickm

Keane told the truth to line his own pockets. This was a grubby thing he did and he's been rightly punished

To use your own eloquence..Bollox!...to the bit about lining his pockets that is! Completely agree it was a bad thing he did & I am not suggesting for one minute that telling the truth about it exonerates the man. I am just saying that he is foolishly, IMHO, candid about a matter in which dozens, if not many more footballers, could be brought to book. I cannot accept that this was simply about money. Keane has consistently been this way...you either love him for it or otherwise.
 
There are many reasons why Keane should not be fined and banned.
1) He's will have served a nine game ban for that tackle
2) Free speech. The FA are telling players what they can and can't put in a book, even though they don't employ them

The fact of the matter is that Keane did what he did, he should just accept his punishment and get fit for his return.
Whatever he's done, we love him
KEANO

CANTONA '95
BECKHAM '98
KEANO '02

We Love You All
 
I am against Keano's suspension over the book because

1 England is a free country and there is freedom of speech.

2 He had been already suspended for that fact 2 years ago

I am not protecting Keano, no way. He is a wild beast that needs to be controlled, but this is something that has to be dealed at OT not by FA Big men.

I wonder what would have happen if Keano was England's and Newcastle captian, instead of being an Irish skipper at Manutd

I remember a certian Alan shearer kicking faces( Lennon) and punching defenders ( England- Malta).
Yet he wasnt fined or prosecuted.

Was it then the same FA?

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