Does anyone have anything to say about the video in the OP or is this successfully derailed by SR now?
Keano: The league's been over for 2 months
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Scoreboard, piss off and take your shite elsewhere. Sounds like Keane arse raped your cat.
EDIT: Keane is right, Barcelona are favourites but he mentioned United's support at Wembley potentially swinging it.
EDIT: Keane is right, Barcelona are favourites but he mentioned United's support at Wembley potentially swinging it.
Fair dues mate, I'm not trying to have a pop at you induvidually or the Irish lads in general but I'm saying, and you must admit, a handful of Irish lads were quick to jump on it with great gusto.
And I've already said Feekeh that's sound and good but I'm telling you what I've experienced personally and heard from what I believe to be reputable sources, not just staged events which he's admirably contributed to.
And little things like that are enough for you not to read or listen to what the lad has to say in interviews etc. ffs.
I was a match day steward when he came over a couple of years ago with Sunderland for a pre-season tour of Ireland & i was never more than a couple of yards away from him in both the open training session & the match & i have to say he was brilliant with the fans particularly the kids when it came to autographs & even photos. I've seen far worse than him.
Possibly Johnno the Irish lads are quick to defend him because over their lifetimes in Ireland they have experienced him first hand more than you have and been privy to more authentic stories than you have? To be fair like, you tried to argue earlier that he was a bully and a muppet earlier based on a joke he made in an interview that you hadn't even heard. Clutching at straws.
The mods are handing out bans for abusing fellow posters, just so you know.
I don't hope you get banned, I'm just saying from experience to watch what you say.
Who's he abused?
If you want points branded around it should be derailing a perfectly good topic. It's getting really, really tedious reading paragraph after paragraph explaining how you think Keane is a cnut with really pathetic examples such as an interview you hadn't seen. We get it, you don't like Keane, good. I've heard nothing but good things in recent years with his charity work, buying a busload of Irish Youth Teamers tickets to Old Trafford. etc etc.
I can't say I have had the priviledge of meeting the guy so cannot comment on your experiences but I can tell you as a fact he was popular around the club, 'a proper gent,' was the description given to me so perhaps he just did not like you or your mates.
Here's one for you...
My Dad's best mate, a United fan, bumped into Keane at a petrol station late at night and gave it the old "yeah, well played the other day Roy", etc. Just small talk bollocks really. Keane was apparently pissed out his head and started giving him a shitload of abuse, telling him to feck off and calling him a wanker and that.
Might have caught him on a bad night or summat but he ain't no saint, put it that way.
My Dad's best mate, a United fan, bumped into Keane at a petrol station late at night and gave it the old "yeah, well played the other day Roy", etc. Just small talk bollocks really. Keane was apparently pissed out his head and started giving him a shitload of abuse, telling him to feck off and calling him a wanker and that.
Might have caught him on a bad night or summat but he ain't no saint, put it that way.
It's not exactly ground breaking that the only people Keane isn't a cnut too is the Irish. Its not like he isn't one of them......
As Pogue mentioned we have even more reason to dislike the guy. Saipan.
You can always rely on marchi-91 to bring a piercing insight to the debate.
Depends which side you're coming from. I don't blame Keane for his behavior on Saipan.
A friend of my brother apparently once saw him at night, wasted, sitting in a wheelie bin eating chilli con carne with his bare hands.
Legend of a player, shame it ended the way it did, hope there's no ill feelings still with Fergie.
Legend of a player, shame it ended the way it did, hope there's no ill feelings still with Fergie.
Lance, Inigo, Spoony. All Irish are they? Try reading the fecking thread first. I don't like attacking individual posters, but christ you make it hard sometimes.
Neither do I but this perception that a few of us are only defending him simply because he's Irish is wrong.
Recycling bin or normal?
As far as heroes go, I think it's fair to say Keane is more complex than most. Its part of what makes him such a fascinating person IMO. If he wasn't so stubborn and self-destructive he'd be a lot less interesting. To me anyway.
I always think it's sad that any United fan could ever dismiss a player who dedicated his entire career to the club and did so much for us on the pitch as a "cnut". Especially when none of us know the bloke personally. Equally, I don't think there's any point portraying him as a saint. The one thing you can definitely say about Keane is that he's got light and dark sides to his personality.
I always think it's sad that any United fan could ever dismiss a player who dedicated his entire career to the club and did so much for us on the pitch as a "cnut". Especially when none of us know the bloke personally. Equally, I don't think there's any point portraying him as a saint. The one thing you can definitely say about Keane is that he's got light and dark sides to his personality.
We can only hope that Keane didn't tarnish his behaviour further by getting spicy food in with the recycling.
This is a man who bore a grudge for 2 years and then set out deliberately to injure an opponent. Surely by any definition that would make him bit of a cnut.
Yeah...I can honestly say it's a split opinion. In cork he's highly regarded though.
I think he just has a very particular sense of justice and fairness...and is slightly insane. In the thing about the bet with the car for example, I reckon he'd have insisted the bloke take his car should Keane have lost the bet. Then the other guy would have said "no don't worry, wasn't being serious", Keane would have taken offence, called him and his wife a pair of cnuts and never spoken to them again.
My fascinating club sandwich anecdote didn't do it for you?
He told me to feck/piss off earlier, I got banned by Hectic for allegedly abusing a poster when in fact I quoted an abusive post aimed at me by one of the lads and Hectic hasn't replied to my PM advising him of his faux pas yet so perhaps he realised it, perhaps not.
As I say, I don't feel abused and don't take it personally, just giving him a heads up as I got banned for less...
There's a video?
So as someone who has seen the dark side, or the cnut side, to Roy Keane you still can't respect my opinion? I respect yours, and Feeky's...
And I have always, always commented on Keane's contribution on the pitch as he was a wonderful player
I like club sandwiches...without tomato though
I've just seen this, what's all that about then?
P.S. He was sent home from the World Cup.
George Best was an alcoholic wife beater who destroyed a liver he'd been given in a transplant. (Sucks to say, but he was)
Yet in threads about Best people tend to avoid speaking about how he behaved and remember him for how he played on the pitch. With Keane, people do the opposite.
Tomato-hating twat.
Its no secret he was a piss head when he was younger but doesn't everyone make mistakes when he was younger. Scoreboards comments in this thread are a disgrace - groundless accusations. And the idea that he 'walked out on his country'
....read a decent history of the player's career....even an abridged one and I think you'll find that was far from what happened...yeah it does. but thats life. even legends can be a cnut at times.
A mate of a mate from Manchester once told me that he saw Keane pissed out of his head, dressed as a Nazi, bludgeoning toddlers with a crowbar. Total cnut.
Short summary of 2002.
Keane was struggling to get fit for the world cup after getting injured for United, he needed adequate facilities to get fit and was promised by the FAI that he'd be given them. The FAI set up base in one of the only islands that didn't even have a football pitch. Keane walked out but was convinced to stay, he then gave an interview to the Irish Independent about the poor quality of the training facilities, Mick McCarthy instead of talking to him separately adressed him in front of the whole Irish team. Keane went on a rant and was sent home.
Keane was struggling to get fit for the world cup after getting injured for United, he needed adequate facilities to get fit and was promised by the FAI that he'd be given them. The FAI set up base in one of the only islands that didn't even have a football pitch. Keane walked out but was convinced to stay, he then gave an interview to the Irish Independent about the poor quality of the training facilities, Mick McCarthy instead of talking to him separately adressed him in front of the whole Irish team. Keane went on a rant and was sent home.
Yes because the two posters in this thread that have things to say in kind about Keane 'visiting hospitals in Ireland etc' weren't Irish