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He was great on Championship Manager though.
Got great sperm as well tbf.
He was great on Championship Manager though.
It’s a contact sport get over it!
I can see why he did it, question is was he planning to get revenge or was it a build up of things during the game…?I love how people always forget the first part of the Keane - Haaland story.
Yes the 'revenge tackle' was a shocker but people always seem to forget why keane did it. When Keane did his ACL at Elland road and was down on the floor in agony Haaland apparently stood over and hurled all kinds of abuse at him. Keane wasn't the type of guy to forget that. You reap what you sew as they say. I'd have done the exact same thing as Keano.
Yea I know. It's a myth that it finished his career. In truth he didnt really have much of a career did he? He was a tinpot player who used to kick people.
Alfie was a good grafter at full back and midfield, quick and strong, and made himself a very decent carreer at Forest, Leeds when they were a top team, and Man City, and got 34 caps for Norway in their best era since the 1930’s.
He was far Roy Keane’s level, and far from him in violent behaviour as well. Keano was a bit of a madman and his ‘grounds’ for revenge was that he had injured himself badly making an orange card tackle from behind on Haaland, who in the heat of the moment had the nerve to accuse him of feigning injury to avoid a red card before it was clear it was serious. More than a year later, Keane went full force towards his right knee. AsJoe Royle stated afterwards: ‘if Haaland had his right foot planted, we’d still be looking for his leg’. Fortunately for Haaland, he had the weight on his left leg, which suffered a twist. He played on with it,, and another game, before it turned out to be a mistake - there was actually a complicated injury in the knee, and he had to operate. He never played professional football after that.
I guess me and many others here would have loved to get Alfie’s carreer, and it does say a lot about Roy Keane that he, even ten years after his two attacks on Haaland, said he didn’t regret trying to hurt him physically. The man doesn’t bear a grudge, he is the walking embodiment of the horror flick of that name.
Well if Joe Royles says so..
I hate this narrative that Haaland was a nice, innocent victim. According to quite a few ex-players and his own teammates he was also an absolute tw@t who hated United and was always kicking our players off the ball and trying to start fights. In the 98-99 season he had run ins with Keane all through the match and scissor tackled from behind. I'm not saying he deserved what Keane did to him but the situation did go a bit deeper than that once incident where Keane did his injury .Alfie was a good grafter at full back and midfield, quick and strong, and made himself a very decent carreer at Forest, Leeds when they were a top team, and Man City, and got 34 caps for Norway in their best era since the 1930’s.
He was far Roy Keane’s level, and far from him in violent behaviour as well. Keano was a bit of a madman and his ‘grounds’ for revenge was that he had injured himself badly making an orange card tackle from behind on Haaland, who in the heat of the moment had the nerve to accuse him of feigning injury to avoid a red card before it was clear it was serious. More than a year later, Keane went full force towards his right knee. AsJoe Royle stated afterwards: ‘if Haaland had his right foot planted, we’d still be looking for his leg’. Fortunately for Haaland, he had the weight on his left leg, which suffered a twist. He played on with it,, and another game, before it turned out to be a mistake - there was actually a complicated injury in the knee, and he had to operate. He never played professional football after that.
I guess me and many others here would have loved to get Alfie’s carreer, and it does say a lot about Roy Keane that he, even ten years after his two attacks on Haaland, said he didn’t regret trying to hurt him physically. The man doesn’t bear a grudge, he is the walking embodiment of the horror flick of that name.
I love how people always forget the first part of the Keane - Haaland story.
Yes the 'revenge tackle' was a shocker but people always seem to forget why keane did it. When Keane did his ACL at Elland road and was down on the floor in agony Haaland apparently stood over and hurled all kinds of abuse at him. Keane wasn't the type of guy to forget that. You reap what you sew as they say. I'd have done the exact same thing as Keano.
I hate this narrative that Haaland was a nice, innocent victim. According to quite a few ex-players and his own teammates he was also an absolute tw@t who hated United and was always kicking our players off the ball and trying to start fights. In the 98-99 season he had run ins with Keane all through the match and scissor tackled from behind. I'm not saying he deserved what Keane did to him but the situation did go a bit deeper than that once incident where Keane did his injury .
You can tell they absolutely despised each other:
You can even see it in the video I posted that his teammates were telling him to shut up and leave off at one point when he was arguing with Keane. Also, as Keane later said, barely any of his teammates even reacted to Keane's revenge tackleAye, Haaland was an utter prick on the pitch and not just against Utd either. You can even see similar traits in Erling on the pitch and when he gives his interviews, he can probably get away with it because he's actually good.
You can even see it in the video I posted that his teammates were telling him to shut up and leave off at one point when he was arguing with Keane. Also, as Keane later said, barely any of his teammates even reacted to Keane's revenge tackle
Was I going around for years thinking: ’I’m going to get him, I’m going to get him.’? No. Was he at the back of my mind? Of course he was. Like Rob Lee was, like David Batty was, like Alan Shearer was, like Patrick Vieira was. All these players were in the back of my mind: ‘If I get a chance I’m going to fecking hit you, of course I am.
I hate this narrative that Haaland was a nice, innocent victim. According to quite a few ex-players and his own teammates he was also an absolute tw@t who hated United and was always kicking our players off the ball and trying to start fights. In the 98-99 season he had run ins with Keane all through the match and scissor tackled from behind. I'm not saying he deserved what Keane did to him but the situation did go a bit deeper than that once incident where Keane did his injury .
You can tell they absolutely despised each other:
I can see why he did it, question is was he planning to get revenge or was it a build up of things during the game…?
P.S I can’t see how you can defend what he did it’s absolutely terrible for the sport but having said that of cause things get heated during a game and Keane doesn’t need much to switch him into beast mode!
I was replying to someone who said Haaland had a nothing carreer and it was a myth that the attack had anything to do with ending it.
I don’t think I said anything about ‘nice’, or ‘innocent’ (of what?), so that narrative is not mine. A victim he certainly was - of a kick in the knees. I’m a big fan of Keane the player, although he was more than a bit of a twat at times, and I’ve nothing much for or against Haaland, though as a compatriot I guess I have background knowledge on him that some don’t. Narratives bore me, I’m interested in what actually happens. I am also interested in which teammates called Haaland a twat, not because I doubt it.
This is the Keane thread, and on that mark, I think the episodes says more about him than about Haaland. Sometimes I loved him for his demeanor, but the way he blamed Haaland for his own doings, premeditated to injure him as a revenge, and didn’t regret it even ten years after having intentionally hurt him which likely contributed to end his carreer.
Which is correct. You need to get your facts straight - Haaland even admitted it himself in a blog post which, ironically, made sure that Haaland couldn’t sue Keane when the book came out.
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/haaland-admission-could-wreck-case-6316729.html
Yeah they did; see the video above where they clashed over a penalty United were denied and then when Haaland makes a two footed scissor tackle on Keane from behind afterwards. The guy had a deathwish.I'm sure they must have faced each other in between the Keane injury then that tackle. It was a few years later
Yeah they did; see the video above where they clashed over a penalty United were denied and then when Haaland makes a two footed scissor tackle on Keane from behind afterwards. The guy had a deathwish.
I think they also faced each other in the game at City where Becks scored the freekick in 2001 too.
I think you’re forgetting that Keane actually hurt himself trying to trip haaland in the first place. Haaland abused him telling him it served him right and to get upI love how people always forget the first part of the Keane - Haaland story.
Yes the 'revenge tackle' was a shocker but people always seem to forget why keane did it. When Keane did his ACL at Elland road and was down on the floor in agony Haaland apparently stood over and hurled all kinds of abuse at him. Keane wasn't the type of guy to forget that. You reap what you sew as they say. I'd have done the exact same thing as Keano.
That "possible" is doing a bit of lifting.I an aware of that fact, and others, which ironically were mentioned in the article you posted:
Haaland has been told by doctors that - despite what he wrote last year - it is possible that his standing left leg sustained critical damage in the challenge.
To be fair United had sown up the title long before that game and had been knocked out of the champions league by Bayern, so if it was premeditated he probably picked the best time to do it, right at the end of the game, at the end of a season when nothing mattered. I mean, that's professionalism if anythingSo if Keane really had a grudge he would have done something earlier. I think it was just a case of United were probably not playing well that day and suddenly Haaland hung his leg it and he just thought feck it have this
He got lucky. All the other millions were duffers.Got great sperm as well tbf.
Aye, often forgotten as well. And I think Keane alluded to his own stupidity in how he did his cruciate by needlessly fouling somebody.I think you’re forgetting that Keane actually hurt himself trying to trip haaland in the first place. Haaland abused him telling him it served him right and to get up
That "possible" is doing a bit of lifting.
I'm not an expert, I've been lead to believe that it would be highly unlikely, as both of Haaland's feet were off the ground at the time of the impact.
Neither am I, nor a doctor, and neither is Haaland, nor Keane. I’m not trying to prove what happened beyond a reasonable doubt, but I see that there are multiple nuances involved.
In regards to Keane - if I say, happened to be maybe Europe’s best midfielder, and I kicked someone from behind in the box, and felt something tear, and heard him abuse me for staying down agter kicking him - hopefully, given time to think, I’d conclude that my injury was my fault, and that his abuse was understandable based on the fact that I’d kicked him and he couldn’t know I was really injured because he didn’t see it as I’d just kicked him from behind. Hopefully - and regardless if he was like me, a bit of a twatty ruffian, - I’d not put him on my quite long back-of-the-head-list of people I’m going to hurt if I ever get the chance.
Hopefully, I wouldn’t, years later, with him playing for another club, decide to go frontkicking his knee in from the side in a manner very apt to injure someone for life. And if I did, I’d probably say I’m terribly sorry right away, instead of standing over him to abuse him, based on this warped grudge list.
And if he turned out to play only one more full game his entire carreer after that kick, I probably would have looked at the replay several times, noticed his left knee was also affected, that it was in fact bandaged, and thought, o shit, did I play a part in aggravating that injury that ended his carreer? When I heard that the player himself exonerated me publicly for that, but his doctors said the challenge possibly may have played a part, I hope I’d have found it in myself to look at that possibility, which, after all was a pretty likely outcome of that challenge either way, and, you know, maybe sendt him some roses, a guinness and an apology card, something to show that I at any rate was sorry for the outcome and the chance that I’d have anything to do with it. I definitely hope I wouldn’t, ten years later, steadfastly and publicly, conclude that I had nothing to regret, and that he was a c*nt and a tw*t and it wasn’t me, and that was all I had to say about it.
But that’s just me. Not Roy Keane. Definitely not Roy Keane. Reading this, you probably assume I have a lot of strong feelings about this, or about Keane, or about Haaland. But you’d be wrong, even if I did write a TLDR post about it. I just took an interest in Roy Keane as a great United player, and in what happened, and I like the option to be straight up about what it looked like without having to pick sides, myths or narratives. And I like a good discussion. Sometimes.
How did kicking him in one knee hurt his other knee? The only reason Haaland never sued was because he knew it would be thrown out as there was no way he could prove that Keane caused the injury in his other knee
Also why assume Keane has a magical supply of guinness
I an aware of that fact, and others, which ironically were mentioned in the article you posted:
Haaland has been told by doctors that - despite what he wrote last year - it is possible that his standing left leg sustained critical damage in the challenge.
I an aware of that fact, and others, which ironically were mentioned in the article you posted:
Haaland has been told by doctors that - despite what he wrote last year - it is possible that his standing left leg sustained critical damage in the challenge.
I think you’re forgetting that Keane actually hurt himself trying to trip haaland in the first place. Haaland abused him telling him it served him right and to get up
Possible, but highly unlikely. If there was a high degree of likelihood then Haaland would have sued.
I'd not visit these doctors if I were you. Haaland finished the match then played for Norway 4-days later. The problems with his left knee also predate that game and incident, so unless Keane had a DeLorean, I think we can put this one to bed.
I love how people always forget the first part of the Keane - Haaland story.
Yes the 'revenge tackle' was a shocker but people always seem to forget why keane did it. When Keane did his ACL at Elland road and was down on the floor in agony Haaland apparently stood over and hurled all kinds of abuse at him. Keane wasn't the type of guy to forget that. You reap what you sew as they say. I'd have done the exact same thing as Keano.
But you also have to remember that Keano did his cruciate trying to cynically foul Haaland. Hence the reaction from Haaland.
I love Keano but that whole thing was on him.
Served him right? He deserved to do his ACL because he 'allegedly' tried to trip him up. Can tell you're a Leeds Fan.... hahahaha. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
So Roy Keane injured Haaland? fecking hell is there no limit to this guy? Haaland is only 21.