Roy Keane

[Yard of Pace]

Has anybody got a link to the interview. I don't think the newspaper give much away online but maybe the article is scanned somewhere?

The full article is on thefreekick.com on one of the threads, among others

[Irwin3]

No wonder he's bitter. Manchester United (allegedly at Fergie's behest or at the least, his compliance) sent Roy a legal threat demanding an apology after an interview he gave in 2008. Roy refused, threat disappeared. Very small time from United there.

[DeLorean]

The full article is on thefreekick.com on one of the threads, among others

Thanks for that... for anybody else who wants to read it, it's here (http://www.thefreekick.com/board/topic/9851-roy-cork-traitor-keane/page__st__140)

[tommy_c12000]

Wigan have issued a statement today regarding Roy Keane's visits to their stadium. They deny that Keane offered to buy a season ticket. If he had they would have sold one no problem to him. This is real exciting stuff. What will Keane's response to this accusation. A nation holds its breath . . . . . . .

http://www.wiganlatics.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10429~2553298,00.html

[tricky_colour]

Ha ha I enjoyed that, a good read!!

"“I did give her a little bit of lip and she said she would call security. ‘Call them’, I said. The security guy came along, put his hands on my arm. ‘Get your hands off me’, I said. He did. I strolled back to my car and drove home.”"

Reminds me of the time I got thrown out of Comet electrical store ;)

Anyway sounds like there is a great story going on there over the ticket.

Mind you I went one better than Keane and actually did go back to buy another TV despite being 'banned' so I ended up having the last laugh :)

[BonnieShels]

You sure showed them TC.

[the bear]

they won't mess with tricky_customer again

[ArdeeBhoy]

Clearly it's a slow news day...

[DeLorean]

"Although we can understand his frustration at not being able to watch Wigan Athletic..."


That's just fantastic :)

[The Fly]

Ferguson and Keane are like two bulls in a pen (http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/sport-comment/sir-alex-ferguson-and-roy-keane-are-like-two-bulls-in-a-pen)




I was trying to sleep in a Hong Kong hotel when I heard the banging in the corridor. It was 1997 and I was on tour with Manchester United. I went to investigate and saw that Roy Keane, the club captain, was rolling around fighting with Peter Schmeichel, the giant goalkeeper. They weren't playing.

"Typical Roy," I thought, and went back to bed smiling. The next day, Schmeichel was wearing sunglasses. There had only been one winner.

Keane could fall out with anyone. I once saw him come to blows with one of his best mates, Denis Irwin, in the dressing room. They were both from Cork and close friends. And they were being pulled apart.

Typical Roy, brilliant Roy.

He wanted to win more than anything. He was born like that and was never anything but completely and utterly driven. In matches, in training – and even in a recent veterans tournament, where he told me that he would take it easy. Two games in, he was the old Roy, flying into – and winning – tackles.

Keane would always take defeat badly, as if it was a personal insult. That mood infected the United team which won trophy after trophy. He embodied it more than anyone, and what a player he was.

There was always room for improvement in his eyes, and he would let players know it. When United's record signing Dwight York arrived at Old Trafford in 1998, Keane hammered him for having a poor first touch. He kept saying: "You're at Man United now Yorkie, this isn't good enough."

He carried this on into matches. I laughed because Dwight actually had a lovely first touch, one of the best. But it wasn't good enough for Keane.

He never shouted at me. I always got on well with him and still do. I played with him for six years at United and played under him at Sunderland. Top man. I find him very witty, dry and so cutting with his comments that people don't often don't realise he's taking a rise out of them.

When he was brutally honest in interviews, I thought he was being so on the manager's authority. He was the manager's enforcer on the pitch and his voice off it. That's why he was never taken to task for his outspoken comments. It saddens me that Keane and Sir Alex Ferguson no longer get on.

As a hard-headed and awkward teenager, I used to get into disagreements with my father. He used to see me challenging him and he didn't like it. He told me that there wasn't room for two bulls in a pen. There was only going to be one winner between me and dad, and it wasn't me. When I see Ferguson and Keane falling out, it reminds me of me and my dad.

I don't like seeing two people for whom I have a huge amount of respect and admiration having cross words publicly, but they are both their own men and are not shy about expressing their opinions.

That's a quality of both men.

Keane is as honest a TV critic as he was a player. I raised my eyebrows when he took that job, though, because he used to hammer players who went into TV, but Keane wants to stay in football and wants to stay active. Life moves on. If you don't play then you manage or coach. If you don't manage then you get into TV.

TV companies want him because they know he won't sit on the fence and be afraid to upset people. Keane made comments in Basel after United were eliminated from the Champions League which annoyed Ferguson. I was with Keane in Basel before the game and he was in a great mood.

He came to see me, Gary Pallister and Bryan Robson in our hotel for a coffee. That's the Gary Pallister whom Keane didn't speak to for three years when they played together. They're fine now and can laugh about it.

Keane wasn't happy when he first saw us. He thought we'd all been to a Coldplay concert the night before and deliberately not asked him along. Someone had told him that and he wanted to know why he wasn't invited.

We were mystified by his complaints. "Coldplay," he said. "You all went to see Coldplay." A singer called Cole Page was on our trip and he'd got his wires crossed. http://ourweecountry.ipbhost.com/public/style_emoticons/default/sarcastic.gif

I hope Keane and Ferguson can sort their differences out. I hope Keane can have the same type of relationship that Bryan Robson, a former United captain, has with the manager. Knowing both, that's not going to happen overnight.

Andrew Cole's column is written with the assistance of European football correspondent Andy Mitten.

[theworm2345]

Wigan have issued a statement today regarding Roy Keane's visits to their stadium. They deny that Keane offered to buy a season ticket. If he had they would have sold one no problem to him. This is real exciting stuff. What will Keane's response to this accusation. A nation holds its breath . . . . . . .

http://www.wiganlatics.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10429~2553298,00.html
Reminds me of a lyric from Gift Grub's parody of Leave Right Now featuring Roy..."Oh how the mighty have fallen, its pathetic/I could end up at Wigan Athletic"

[Closed Account]

Ferguson and Keane are like two bulls in a pen (http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/sport-comment/sir-alex-ferguson-and-roy-keane-are-like-two-bulls-in-a-pen)

That's a great read. On the phone, I realised it was andrew(sic) pretty early. Roy is fascinating.

[Deckydee]

Have to agree with Roy here.

http://www.joe.ie/football/videos/video-chelsea-players-ear-flicking-gets-roy-keanes-goat-on-itv-0021907-1

Spot on.

[Fixer82]

I have to agree with him on the ham sandwich front though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLlCf4gxeGI

[John83]

Roy's usually right, in my experience. It's just that he has no sense of perspective. Every little thing is a disgrace.

[tricky_colour]

Just as well Chelsea won fairly comfortably in the end.
It does look childish though.

[seanfhear]

Roy would have given them a root (er, a boot) up the Arshh.

And on this occasion he would have beeen right.

[Crosby87]

Keane angling for a position with UTD?

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1069290/roy-keane:-manchester-united-don't-need-mass-clearout-this-summer?cc=5901 (http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1069290/roy-keane:-manchester-united-don't-need-mass-clearout-this-summer?cc=5901)

[OwlsFan]

Mother Teresa says Keane should put his hat in the ring for the Irish job:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/republic-of-ireland/9342238/Euro-2012-If-the-opportunity-arose-would-Roy-Keane-be-interested-in-managing-the-Republic-of-Ireland.html

I just don't seen it happening. His success rate and ability to handle players not quite as gifted as himself isn't anything to write home about. No lose situation for me though. If he is unsuccessful, hah you failed again Keane!! If he is successful, whooohu, Ireland are winning.

[brine3]

Roy Keane was a fantastic player and student of the game who could read the game like no other, inspiration for all and a born winner. He had an intensity about the way he went about things.

I'm his greatest fan and he did quite well at Sunderland. I just don't know if his intensity transfers over into the realm of management. Maybe it would have 30 years ago but in today's football environment?

[ArdeeBhoy]

His trouble is that it's all about satisfying his ego. No-one else.
Nothing more and nothing less.

[seanfhear]

One reason that Keane might make an international manager is that he would not have any dealings in the transfer market. He and his advisors certainly did not cover themselves in glory in this department during his club career.

One reason that he may not be a good international manager is.

Would the players turn up for international duty. Trap and Don Givens can be quite good at falling out with people.

Roy Keane has it down to a fine art ! I could see Ireland having an international match and no players.

Roy and his dog would have to take the field ! Mind, they might do a better job than the players !

[DannyInvincible]

One reason that he may not be a good international manager is.

Would the players turn up for international duty. Trap and Don Givens can be quite good at falling out with people.

Roy Keane has it down to a fine art !

Roy Keane doesn't fall out with people. He falls out with nations.

[DannyInvincible]

Roy Keane brisked within a metre of me today in Spinningfields, Manchester. Didn't even ask me for an autograph!

To be fair to him, he looked like he was in a rush for an important lunch in Zizzi, flanked on either side by two men in suits. Perhaps the BBC are trying to snatch him from ITV; they're based in Salford just across the canal now.

[back of the net]

Perhaps the BBC are trying to snatch him from ITV; they're based in Salford just across the canal now.

Roy and Garth Crooks in the Same studio.......Dear lord dont let it happen

[BonnieShels]

Let it happen.

Please let it happen.

The destruction of Crooks' face is long overdue.

[Spudulika]

Well, we could be seeing more riots, appeals for calm, arms shipments from dodgy dictatorships, drone bombing and US-Coalition of Righteous defence of democracy if what I heard overnight is true. Roy Keane is getting a job - in Turkey. Last night it came across a webforum on Russian football (I was watching the Ryder Cup, honest) and a bunch of Russian Kavkazians were wondering what would happen. While this might mark the beginning of the final phase of the Great Caliphate, or Armageddon as VVP has it, Roy going to a Turkish Premier team might be useful for him. Watch the mayhem ensue!

[Olé Olé]

http://www.joe.ie/football/football-news/is-roy-keane-really-about-to-be-given-a-new-start-in-turkey-0028817-1


It’s only speculation so far so we’re inclined to tread cautiously, but the Internet and Twitter are abuzz this morning with reports that Keano is set to take charge of Turkish side Kasımpaşa, who currently lie in third place in the Turkish league.
Apparently, Turkish media are reporting that Keane has agreed to take charge of the Istanbul-based club and will be announced as their new manager tomorrow. If the rumours are true, it will be Keane’s first job in management since being sacked by Ipswich in January 2011, but he has been keen to stress his desire to return to the dugout ever since being let go by the Tractor Boys.
We always figured Keane would return to management eventually – he seemed far too uncomfortable as a pundit to make a career out of it – but few would have predicted that he would go so far afield to get his managerial career back on track.
As we said, so far it’s only speculation and we wouldn’t advise reading too much into it until it’s confirmed, but if it is true it will mark yet another unexpected development in a career that’s been full of surprises to date.
Keano seems ready for Turkey, but is Turkey ready for him?
Watch this space.


This could turn out really interestingly, if it happens.
Given the way Keano has gone about his business in the past, who'll be the first Irish player in Turkey since Billy Mehmet? David Connolly is still a free agent and can be signed outside of the transfer window!
This lot have some big names I instantly recognised. Kala Uche carved out a good career in La Liga. Andreas Isaksson played for Man City in the Premiership and Fabian Ernst played quite a bit for Germany.

If this does happen, the Irish media's response will be to follow Turkish football like never before. I remember the days every kick of a ball or uttering to come out of Ipswich was highlighted in the back pages.

[Charlie Darwin]

Daryl Murphy is already getting his bags packed, I suspect.

[Olé Olé]

Liam Miller is meeting up with Billy Mehmet in Perth asking about the lifestyle in Turkey, as we speak.

[SkStu]

Triggs better check his passport...

[Charlie Darwin]

I can't imagine it'll be cheap to buy out Grand Ledbitter's contract either, but presumably the Turkish owners know quality when they see it.

[Olé Olé]

Craig Gordon is available on a free transfer. That's £9million less than Keane paid for him before. Bargain.

[Stuttgart88]

Triggs better check his passport...

Have you no respect for the dead?

[Colbert Report]

Craig Gordon is available on a free transfer. That's £9million less than Keane paid for him before. Bargain.

Hardly Keane's fault that Gordon broke his arm repeatedly.

[Spudulika]

This is what the man needs, all joking aside, get away, break out of the whole comfort zone thing. He has to be completely independent and maybe bring in his own assistant. the only danger is that he'll find that his team will be picked for him, that he won't be able to stamp his feet and have players signed and most important of all, he'll have to do his own coaching 100%. This will make or break him.

[IsMiseSean]

Turkey?? Still not far enough away....

[Crosby87]

Thought his love of Cypriotic vacations would prevent him from getting into bed with Turkey.

[Uncle_Joe]

I'm not Keane's biggest fan but I can't help but feel a little bit apprehensive about this. With regards to anything to do with Irish football or footballers or managers, I want them to do well. Any successful manager at club level is potentially a future successful International manager and we don't have a huge pool of people to choose from. Personally I would prefer to see him take on a more familiar club where his chances of success are greater.

[tricky_colour]

I suppose they could have Dustin the Turkey as team mascot?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n--JnAwirk

[NeverFeltBetter]

What a strange place to end up. Club just got promoted through the play-offs last season. New investors. Smallest of the five Istanbul clubs in the Turkish Super league, have never won anything.

But, 6 games in, are second in the league, a point behind Galatasaray (according to wiki). Anyone know why the last coach was sacked?

[Olé Olé]

I'm not Keane's biggest fan but I can't help but feel a little bit apprehensive about this. With regards to anything to do with Irish football or footballers or managers, I want them to do well. Any successful manager at club level is potentially a future successful International manager and we don't have a huge pool of people to choose from. Personally I would prefer to see him take on a more familiar club where his chances of success are greater.

I think Keane has spent too much of his career surrounding himself with familiar players and coaches, the list is endless. It's about time he took on something totally alien in an environment he has little knowledge of and maybe his management skills can be nurtured and developed better as a result.

[Olé Olé]

What a strange place to end up. Club just got promoted through the play-offs last season. New investors. Smallest of the five Istanbul clubs in the Turkish Super league, have never won anything.

But, 6 games in, are second in the league, a point behind Galatasaray (according to wiki). Anyone know why the last coach was sacked?

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2557/news/2012/09/30/3414350/roy-keane-poised-to-take-over-as-manager-of-turkish-side?source=breakingnews


The Istanbul-based club sacked former manager Metin Diyadin, despite him leading them to promotion from the second tier last season and to their lofty position this term.

Rather strange indeed. Maybe they felt the need for a higher profile manager, for whatever reasons.

[Crosby87]

Anyone know why the last coach was sacked?

He demanded running water in the bathrooms.

[AlaskaFox]

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2557/news/2012/09/30/3414350/roy-keane-poised-to-take-over-as-manager-of-turkish-side?source=breakingnews

Rather strange indeed. Maybe they felt the need for a higher profile manager, for whatever reasons.

Afaik, they have a new chairman who wants to spend money.

[NeverFeltBetter]

Roy Keane should last around a half hour so, considering his track record with facilities.

[theworm2345]

Roy Keane should last around a half hour so, considering his track record with facilities.
Thats if he even makes it there...as I recall his knee tends to flare up when it comes time to make a trip to the Middle East :p

[OwlsFan]

Turkey? It will be all over for him by Christmas.

[AlaskaFox]

He's going to get stuffed every week.

[Yard of Pace]

Legendary, hothead midfieler with violent tendancies underachieves in management in England and goes to try his luck in Turkey. What could possibly go wrong???

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/165/429/6GraemeSouness38938537a_display_image.jpg?12674127 57