Richard (33) may be recruited by Paul Lambert at Ipswich Town (DerbyshireLive, 3 August 2020)
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Richard (33) may be recruited by Paul Lambert at Ipswich Town (DerbyshireLive, 3 August 2020)
Hopefully he's used at least some of all the downtime that's inadvertently come his way priming for his theory test.
Signs for league one mk dons.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2020...ts-to-mk-dons/
Only 33 years old!
Not mentioned was the phonecall from Kenny. Has he or hasn't he.....?
Made his return at the weekend - https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/...-40056479.html
He is a good fella . Hope it works out for him.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
Apparently heading back to the Championship, his new club hasn't been confirmed yet.
Looks to be possibly Huddersfield that he's going to.
To be known in future as Richie Rich Keogh
Says a lot about him that he was willing to come back from the injury and play football and even seek to test himself at a higher division at his age, if that figure is true.
I watched a bit of that game he had with MK Dons and understandably he was way off the mark even for that level. It would be of some concern if he was thrown in straight away at Huddersfield.
Apparently he's been awarded two million euros by an unemployment tribunal, could put Derby in a major bind financially speaking.
I heard it was 2m pounds.
And to add insult to injury, the prizes young assets that they were protecting in Mason Bennett and Tom Lawrence have not fared so well since. Bennett is now with Millwall. And Lawrence has no goals in 13 league appearances this season.
Derby sealed their own fate, the dogs in the street could see through their stroke to reduce Keogh's contract on false pretenses, meanwhile going easy on the 2 culprits, both uninjured and still on contract.
One thing about this story that I find highly unusual is that Keogh doesn't drive. How can a professional footballer not drive? They love their cars, most of them. But surely getting to training every morning, going to different team nights, exercises etc. it's a pain in the hole not driving.
Very unusual!
Could be an ethical thing - ecofriendly and all that - or just that there was never a need. It's not like he can't afford the odd taxi fare.
You would assume transport is laid on by the club for him no problem they will be aware of his status as a non driver and will have official taxi partners or taxi firms as sponsors anyway.
I kinda like the fact he doesn’t drive.
Footballers often end up living as next door neighbours to each other, partly because the club helps them in finding housing when they arrive and partly because they’re often renting because of the short term nature of their stays and partly because they’re shopping at the higher end of the market and its relatively limited in options.
You’ll often see footballers driving to training together, just because, bonding or handiness or whatever.
Certainly unusual he doesn’t drive though...
I became curious about Richie and as I have been in that 'not knowing' space many time previous, I remembered that I could do a search on the WWW.
Search term (not my finest) <Richard Keogh why not learn to drive car>
lo and behold, up popped an article from the Daily Star
Derby ace Richard Keogh eyeing dream double of promotion...and passing his driving test
I gather that both Richie's dreams remain unfulfilled.
Keogh is desperate to land a double and crack open the bubbly by passing his driving test into the bargain.
Keogh said: "I'm trying to learn, but I'm miles away from taking my test.
"I'm quite happy for the boys to chauffeur me around at the moment.
"When I was younger, everyone was getting behind the wheel, but to be honest it just didn't appeal to me.
"Now that I'm a bit older, I'm thinking 'I should've done that!'
"But yes, I need to start driving. I think it's just a mental block for me."
Heard an interesting story recently about a reserve player getting a premier league chance due to Covid. Only on about a grand a week, but when he went up to the first for a few weeks they all had drivers who'd bring them training and wait around to bring them home. Came back to the reserves paying 500 quid of his grand a week to a driver and hasn't got a sniff of first team since.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
could be true, but why would first team players be paying drivers to being them to/from training - that's adding 25 people (if each member of the first team squad has a driver) to their secure bubble
That's a good point, I should have asked that question, but I've no doubt it's true.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
the inevitable outcome of his sacking.....
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2021...hearing-finds/
I had read somewhere at the time that there was a contrivance to the “sacking” as a book keeping exercise. Ultimately everyone knew he would be compensated to his full entitlement. Maybe more. But it free’d up some finances in the immediate term and the source of the settlement comes from different budget because of how its awarded, or something to that effect...
Richard has signed for Blackpool on a one-year deal, thereby playing in the EFL Championship again. (BBC Sport, 17 July).
This is an amazing interview with Richard Keogh
https://amp.theguardian.com/football...king-blackpool
I'm not sensing much regret at his own lack of personal responsibility. It's all very - "poor me". Not realising that his teammate had drink taken, or at least very possibly had drink taken, seems unlikely at best.
I agree he was treated poorly, or at least disproportionately, by the club but I wouldn't stray too far down the victim route. Sympathy will be in even shorter supply now that he's recouped a couple of million for his troubles.
I've no doubt he went through some dark times since the incident, but ultimately it was an unfortunate situation largely of his own making.
I wonder if he got his payout into his hand before Derby went into administration. If he didn't he might be an unsecured creditor and might never get it, or only a very small percentage.
I never really saw how keogh had any responsibility in this in any sort of legal way that would allow your contract be terminated. Unless his contract stipulated that if you got injured doing anything other than football you wouldn't be paid then it was a crazy concept. Even the responsibility to wear a seat belt that is on the driver , as the driver your the one to get the penalty points if your passenger isn't wearing a seat belt not them. For the lads to leave him in the car that's just an unbelievable act they were so lucky not to go to jail. Really hope he has that cash received from derby at this stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
And so it proved. The legal bit is only one side of it though, he messed up. It happens, people make mistakes, but I think he'd come across a lot better if he took more responsibility for his own misjudgement.Quote:
Originally Posted by liamoo11
This is how I'm reading it as well. Keogh was filmed in the pub with Lawrence and Bennett so "“I hadn’t spent the evening with Tom" is subjective to how you define "spent the evening". But adding to that there is an oddity as to why Keogh who admittedly "always got on well with Lawrence" would not be spending the evening with Lawrence on a team night out .... ??Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
Anybody know why Keogh missed his initial lift home?Quote:
Then came the ill-fated decision. Keogh had missed his lift home but his teammate Tom Lawrence was in his Range Rover, keys in the ignition, ready to go.
I'd have a degree of sympathy for Keogh here. Many moons ago, I did exactly the same thing as he did - took a lift home from the pub from a friend who I thought was sober because she was driving. Turned out, she'd had a drink, and while I got home safely, she wrote off the car a week later after giving someone a lift to the airport after drinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
Since then, I refuse point blank to get in the car if I know they've had a drink
My thoughts too.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
This tut-tutting stuff is ridiculous lads, how would you feel if Keogh had been killed by Lawrence, his own fault? He was treated shockingly by his team mates who left him for dead, and then by his club who abandoned him to try save a bit of cash.Luckily he was too tough for them and was fortunate to have a great woman backing him up.
I think most agree he was treated badly. And it's surely a given that everybody would have been devastated for him had he been killed! That doesn't absolve him of all responsibility, which as the senior player and club captain the expectations would have been much higher. I think he could at least acknowledge that too. If that's tut-tutting, fair enough.
I think that's very harsh. It's victim blaming. He was awfully treated by his team mates leaving him unconscious in a car that could have gone on fire then sacked by the club who kept on those very same players who also were drink driving .Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
He was awfully treated, absolutely. But I also struggle to believe he had no idea Lawrence was over the limit as they'd been in the pub together for ages, even if not at the same table. I mean, did he not even ask Lawrence how many had he had? That's all really. I struggle to believe in his incredulity at Lawrence being drunk. But everything else is pretty damning of his teammates.Quote:
Originally Posted by liamoo11
That's fair , amazing effort to get himself back playing at a good level ascwellQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88