Curtains drawing on Keane
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Originally Posted by sparkey
SQUAD:
Goalkeepers: Shay Given, Paul Robinson, Maik Taylor.
Defenders: Gary Neville, Steve Finnan, John Terry, Sol Campbell, Jonathan Woodgate, Rio Ferdinand, Ashley Cole, Jamie Carragher.
Midfielders: David Beckham, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole, Barry Ferguson, Damian Duff, Ryan Giggs.
Strikers: Wayne Rooney, Michael Owen, John Hartson, Jermaine Defoe.
STARTING 11:
S Given
G Neville - J Terry - J Carragher - A Cole
D Beckham - S Gerrard - F Lampard - D Duff
W Rooney - M Owen
That team is a fair reflection of what any hypothetical team would look like. At last somebody else has seen the light and realised that Roy Keane is past his sell-by-date. There's a lack of acceptance on a lot of peoples part to the fact that Keane is not the player he once was, and never will be again.
Henry Winter made this accurate observation about Keane in the telegraph on Tuesday: "In modern midfields young legs are required to live with dynamos like Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard. For all his ring-craft, Keane can be exposd over 90 minutes of stamina-sapping combat......Such sad reality explains Ferguson's redesigning of his team to accomodate the ageing general, isolating Ruud Van Nistelrooy in attack to put another body in midfield, an insurance policy against the one fight Keane cannot win. The warrior from Cork has conquered most opponents, but not Father Time."
