Roy Keane

I wonder how different the book and Roy Keane would have been if we had not won so much after he left.

His quotes on Querioz are highly childish and embarrassing considering he helped build the foundation for one of our greatest sides.
 
The Law of Denis said:
I wonder how different the book and Roy Keane would have been if we had not won so much after he left.

His quotes on Querioz are highly childish and embarrassing considering he helped build the foundation for one of our greatest sides.
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TBF in many ways Quieroz also helped drum out any remaining joy in the latter United sides, post 06-07 we weren't always great to watch.
 
Every time this man opens his mouth he comes across as an even bigger prick.
 

He's still a red. A legend. It's a pity him and Ferguson fell out, neither is in the right, two stubborn bastards.
 
ArmchairCritic said:
TBF in many ways Quieroz also helped drum out any remaining joy in the latter United sides, post 06-07 we weren't always great to watch.
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The defensive style those sides were built on made us one of the best teams in Europe at the time.

For all his big talk, Keane has been proven wrong again and again in how the team should have been lead during our rebuilding phase of 03-06.

Instead of understanding that transitions take time and that there will be lows, his impatience lead to high acts of unprofessional behavior towards our youngsters. His arrogance I have no doubt also contributed to his failure as a manager.

Keane is forgetting that by that time he was truly past it as well. The latter half of 05/06 we played significantly better, including going on a huge winning run (similar to Liverpool last season, come to think of it) with a central midfield of O'shea-Giggs.

He could have taken the high route and admitted that the methods and players he criticized lead to multiple CL finals and PL titles, but instead he is hell bent on repeating repeating criticism that has come out to be invalid.
 
akash02 said:
Every time this man opens his mouth he comes across as an even bigger prick.
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Weren't you that bloke who had never seen him play in his pomp?
 
akash02 said:
Every time this man opens his mouth he comes across as an even bigger prick.
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Oh nevermind, it's the same boring cnut who keeps posting the same thing over and over.
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Lynk said:
Weren't you that bloke who had never seen him play in his pomp?
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Nope. As I recall you insisted I never watched him play because I didn't want to lick his hole like you do.

Lynk said:
Oh nevermind, it's the same boring cnut who keeps posting the same thing over and over.
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Yes, he's one hell of a bitter cnut. Deal with it.
 
I dunno how he's bitter for telling his side of the story, he had every right to after Ferguson revealed his side, and Keane didn't come across well...
 
akash02 said:
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Get a fecking grip. I'm not bitter about anything and certainly not Roy Keane.
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Roy isn't bitter at all, and if he is maybe a part of it is justified. One could argue that he's been our most important player since Cantona or Robson. Thing is most of our legends got a fitting sendoff compared to Roy, who was pushed out of the door in acrimonious fashion. This after he spilled sweat and blood for the club and perhaps, more importantly Fergie as his embodiment on the pitch for 12 seasons. He doesn't even resent the club, and holds it in his heart. Certainly doesn't deserve to be termed a prick.
 
Lynk said:
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Ok mate.

Clearly I don't share your fascination for licking Roy Keane's arsehole.

Of course that does not mean I am bitter about him. Not sure why I would be bitter about one of our best CM's ever in any case but if it makes you feel any better...
 
KiD MoYeS said:
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Also agree with him on this. We've every reason to be proud of the class of '92, but they do appear to have grown more and more in legend recently, all because of a movie.
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Indeed....Phil Neville was apparently the permanent fixture, at LB, playing behind Giggs....Well, according to them.

Shat on Denis Irwin
 
“The Class of '92 – all good players, but their role at the club has become exaggerated," he writes in his autobiography 'The Second Half'..

"The 'Class of '92' seems to have grown its own legs; it has become a brand. It's as if they were a team away from the team, and they're not shy of plugging into it.

"But we all had the same aims – we all had the hunger. Scholesy was a top, top player. But I still don't fall for that boy-next-door image, or that he's dead humble. He has more of an edge to him. Everyone thinks he lives in a council flat.”
 
Lynk said:
“The Class of '92 – all good players, but their role at the club has become exaggerated," he writes in his autobiography 'The Second Half'..

"The 'Class of '92' seems to have grown its own legs; it has become a brand. It's as if they were a team away from the team, and they're not shy of plugging into it.

"But we all had the same aims – we all had the hunger. Scholesy was a top, top player. But I still don't fall for that boy-next-door image, or that he's dead humble. He has more of an edge to him. Everyone thinks he lives in a council flat.”
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I think most know Scholes could be a nasty bastard when he wanted to be, but he almost had to be considering his size.
 
On Ronaldo:
He was up against John O’Shea. Sheasy ended up seeing the doctor at half time because he was actually having dizzy spells.
The club concluded negotiations after the game and we always joked with Sheasy he had actually sealed the deal by playing like a f*cking clown.
In fairness to him, he was jet-lagged [from America] like the rest of us.
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olegunnar said:
Which part of the Saipan incident exactly made him a coward? Childish in the sense of letting your emotions get the better of you, certainly. But it was will to be better and give his side a fair shot that was behind everything in Saipan
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Keane of all people, as it turns out can tell it more succinctly than I can...

.Rossi said:
Keane on Moyes: 'Not liking a manager can never be an excuse for not going out and doing your best. He had a weak dressing-room'
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He was a coward in Saipan because he chose the easy option. Created a massive tension in the camp and he knew fine well (although with his ego, perhaps thought he would get his way) that McCarthy would have to remove him if he didn't back down. He pretty much engineered his own exit, that's my view.

He let his team mates down hugely. He could have quite easily played the tournament and then destroyed McCarthy in the aftermath for poor preparation and incompetence but he made it all about him. That's cowardly, not being brave enough to do something you SHOULD do, even if it's not something you're happy about. Perhaps it's a fine line between stubbornness and cowardliness but I think there's both in Keane's Saipan scenario.
 
David Beckham: "I didn't realise how much integrity Roy Keane had until he told me about it 477 times while we were filming an advert for Monster Munch. His will-to-win was legendary - during a break he was arguing with a losing scratch card."

Yawn.
 
Minimalist said:
Keane of all people, as it turns out can tell it more succinctly than I can...



He was a coward in Saipan because he chose the easy option. Created a massive tension in the camp and he knew fine well (although with his ego, perhaps thought he would get his way) that McCarthy would have to remove him if he didn't back down. He pretty much engineered his own exit, that's my view.

He let his team mates down hugely. He could have quite easily played the tournament and then destroyed McCarthy in the aftermath for poor preparation and incompetence but he made it all about him. That's cowardly, not being brave enough to do something you SHOULD do, even if it's not something you're happy about. Perhaps it's a fine line between stubbornness and cowardliness but I think there's both in Keane's Saipan scenario.
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A coward?

Ha right yeah...So despite hating Mick and dragging us through qualifying, despite Mick being the one to start the row in public and telling Keane to piss off, Keane's the coward.

For all that's said about Saipan, Mick gets a shocking easy ride.
 
On Haaland:

“Looking back at it now, I’m disappointed in the other Manchester City players. They didn’t jump in to defend their team-mate. I know that if someone had done that to a United player, I’d have been right in there. They probably thought he was a prick, too.”
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Minimalist said:
Keane of all people, as it turns out can tell it more succinctly than I can...



He was a coward in Saipan because he chose the easy option. Created a massive tension in the camp and he knew fine well (although with his ego, perhaps thought he would get his way) that McCarthy would have to remove him if he didn't back down. He pretty much engineered his own exit, that's my view.

He let his team mates down hugely. He could have quite easily played the tournament and then destroyed McCarthy in the aftermath for poor preparation and incompetence but he made it all about him. That's cowardly, not being brave enough to do something you SHOULD do, even if it's not something you're happy about. Perhaps it's a fine line between stubbornness and cowardliness but I think there's both in Keane's Saipan scenario.
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Keane would've thought it cowardly to not speak up and act.
 
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