Keane Walks Out On Sunderland

**Buzzer** · 05/12/2008, 8:28 AM

Originally Posted by lionelhutz

Exactly. Would Cisse, Chimbonda, Malbranque, Ferdinand or Richardson even consider signing for the likes of Wigan, West Brom, Hull, Bolton, Stoke or Fulham? I don't think so. And 5 of those clubs are ahead of Sunderland in the table - some considerably ahead.

As well as that, I don't rate the 5 players above or tbh any of the players he signed this season. His transfer dealings have been awful and he hasn't been able to get any consistency of performance out of his players. Damning indictment for any manager.

chimbonda played with wigan
malbranque played with fulham.
think sunderland are a bigger club then the hammers so can't see your argument in ferdinand's case

**Buzzer** · 05/12/2008, 8:32 AM

Originally Posted by barney

I'd hate to go through life so bitter than I'd aim to deliberately injure a man and try to end his career. Takes all sorts though.

the hard man is not the fellow who give's the dirty tackle and injures a player.
the hard man,IMO,is the c/forward who is getting "jots" kicked out of him all day by these.so called hard men,dusts himself off each time,and scores a goal to sicken 'em

**barney** · 05/12/2008, 8:36 AM

Originally Posted by Buzzer

the hard man is not the fellow who give's the dirty tackle and injures a player.
the hard man,IMO,is the c/forward who is getting "jots" kicked out of him all day by these.so called hard men,dusts himself off each time,and scores a goal to sicken 'em

Precisely.

**Buzzer** · 05/12/2008, 8:39 AM

Originally Posted by Hibernian

and how many champions league medals have you got?

what a plonker

He was not up to the job at Sunderland I will put my hat up there but to call him a loser well thats just daft as hell.

get your head out of the bucket and get a life.

i'd guess none...but neither has keane...suspended remember??

**jbyrne** · 05/12/2008, 8:46 AM

Originally Posted by barney

Go and YouTube the tackle. He kicked Haaland from behind, with the ball nowhere in sight, Haaland gets up and Keane is staying down for a tackle that he would and should have been booked for. His natural reaction was that Keane was faking. What Haaland did was not unreasonable.

oh fair enough then, i forgot about keanes reputation for rolling around faking injury during a match

**dublinred** · 05/12/2008, 8:57 AM

Originally Posted by Axe Man

Gk- Gordon
RB- Chimbonda
LB- Mc Cartney
CB- A Ferdinand
CB- Collins/ Nosworthy
LM- A Reid
RM- Malbranque
CM- Whitehead
CM- Richardson
CF- Cisse
CF- Jones

Thats not a bad team the players were there for mid to top half of the table. Obviously something is wrong in the dressing room. Keane could have rode out the storm but choose to ride off into the sunset. Shame on you mister Keane cant believe he walked away. When the tough gets going Keane gets gone...

TBH apart from the goalie I couldn't see many of them getting a game for Paul Cook at Rovers. I tihnk Keane went into management too early and tried signing a lot of people he knew , he would of been better off having a break and identifying potential targets for when he started his management career which is what i think shearer is doing at the moment.

Another theory is that he got his revenge on Quinn for Saipan by wasting 70m of his and his mates money on players with very little resale value.

**barney** · 05/12/2008, 8:58 AM

Originally Posted by jbyrne

oh fair enough then, i forgot about keanes reputation for rolling around faking injury during a match

If you got deliberately kicked from behind and you turned around and saw the perpetrator rolling around the ground what would be your instant reaction? Twas in the heat of the moment and it was an instant and understandable reaction from Haaland. As I said, if Big Hard Roy was that put out, why didn't he have it out man to man with Haaland instead of what he did?

Keane has also been known to feign injury when it came to international friendly weeks so he's hardly whiter than white in that respect anyway.

**Dodge** · 05/12/2008, 9:00 AM

3 threads merged...

**Hibernian** · 05/12/2008, 9:18 AM

Originally Posted by Buzzer

i'd guess none...but neither has keane...suspended remember??

OK then Premer League Medals?

and he does have champions league medal by way he just did not receive it on night of final

**Drumcondra 69er** · 05/12/2008, 9:35 AM

Originally Posted by jbyrne

oh fair enough then, i forgot about keanes reputation for rolling around faking injury during a match

Do you honestly think it was out of order for Haaland to have a go at Keane in the heat of the moment having just been booted up in the air by him when the ball was running out of play? Keane was a coward that day (head wrecked because man u were losing to Leeds so lashes out for no reason letting his team mates down on the day and missing a season as a result) and a coward when he took his 'revenge'. Had Haaland done Keane's cruciate in a tackle or by kicking him then there may have been some mitigation but the fact that Keane held a grudge purely for injuring himself and is defended for it by his legion of blind followers is shameful. It's like deliberately driving into a wall and blaming the wall or whoever built it for any injuries you suffer.

**smasher** · 05/12/2008, 9:41 AM

Originally Posted by barney

If you got deliberately kicked from behind and you turned around and saw the perpetrator rolling around the ground what would be your instant reaction? Twas in the heat of the moment and it was an instant and understandable reaction from Haaland. As I said, if Big Hard Roy was that put out, why didn't he have it out man to man with Haaland instead of what he did?

Keane has also been known to feign injury when it came to international friendly weeks so he's hardly whiter than white in that respect anyway.

Well said Barney.
It took an American guy to come in and sort it out at Sunderland. All these Drumaville wallies tiptoeing around Keane , afraid to challenge him on anything.
It was like some rich parent not wanting to challenge their errant child who swans around the place wasting their money like there's no tomorrow.
Meanwhile his ego is massaged by his bosses and the misguided masses who flock to North East from Ireland to pay him homage, blissfully unaware of the sinking ship that is Sunderland FC.

**barney** · 05/12/2008, 10:22 AM

Just in case anyone is in any doubt about what a piece of filth Keane is, have a look at this clip. There's the original tackle and Keane's revenge. You'll notice Haaland looks like he just let rip with a very short comment and you could understand it given what was a stupid, cowardly Keane tackle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuxKrnTP-k

**smasher** · 05/12/2008, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by barney

Just in case anyone is in any doubt about what a piece of filth Keane is, have a look at this clip. There's the original tackle and Keane's revenge. You'll notice Haaland looks like he just let rip with a very short comment and you could understand it given what was a stupid, cowardly Keane tackle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuxKrnTP-k

I think that says it all , as if we did'nt know already.

**seanfhear** · 05/12/2008, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by barney

Just in case anyone is in any doubt about what a piece of filth Keane is, have a look at this clip. There's the original tackle and Keane's revenge. You'll notice Haaland looks like he just let rip with a very short comment and you could understand it given what was a stupid, cowardly Keane tackle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuxKrnTP-k

Between those two incidents and Saipan there is plenty of evidence that Roy Keane is a flawed character and is a guy with such a flawed character suitable to be a football manager?

Certainly none of us can take away from him that he was a great player.

Maybe its because of these flaws that some players become great as individual players.

Keane will have to question wheter he has the ability to get the best out of other people.It is a completely different gift that that needed to be a great individual player.

**Buzzer** · 05/12/2008, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by Hibernian

OK then Premer League Medals?

and he does have champions league medal by way he just did not receive it on night of final

did not accept the medal hib's.
agree he was a great player....but nasty selfserving"who but me " person.
the list goes on...what he said to mccarthy was racist.
supposing richardson said something similar to him,what would his reaction have been to that in his capacity as a manager...he was always a bitter person..to many incidents to list here..great player,not in the same league as the all time greats,the exact opposite as a public person(cannot comment as to what he is like in his private life)....just glad i don't have to listen to him,or about him,anymore

**osarusan** · 05/12/2008, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by Buzzer

.just glad i don't have to listen to him,or about him,anymore

But equally glad of the chance to post repeatedly about him on this thread.

**Dodge** · 05/12/2008, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by osarusan

But equally glad of the chance to post repeatedly about him on this thread.

Unbelievable isn't it? I reckon the exact same stuff was posted in 2002, and every years since whenever Keane did anything of note.

I certainly can't be descibed as a fan of the man, but jesus, some people just need to move on.

**Buzzer** · 05/12/2008, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by osarusan

But equally glad of the chance to post repeatedly about him on this thread.

that's what this is about...posting opinions is it not????
you may disagree with mine...opinions are never right,by definition,but i am entitled,as you are,to them...............

**NeilMcD** · 05/12/2008, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by Hibernian

I have heard it all now...Holy God

Please please please tell me you spotted that I was joking.

**bennocelt** · 05/12/2008, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by Buzzer

did not accept the medal hib's.
agree he was a great player....but nasty selfserving"who but me " person.
the list goes on...what he said to mccarthy was racist.

no it wasn't - cause he never said THAT -

tabloids ahead of themselves