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Roy Keane says that Alex Ferguson ignored his inside Irish information before pursuing his bitter legal battle with JP McManus and John Magnier over stud rights for the racehorse Rock Of Gibraltar.
Keane makes the claims in his new autobiography 'The Second Half', which leaked out ahead of its scheduled release date yesterday when a handful of Tesco stores in England put it on sale before its Thursday launch.
As expected, his former Manchester United manager's handling of the dispute with two of the club's biggest shareholders figures prominently.
The fruitless fight ultimately led to the controversial takeover of the Premier League giants by the Glazer family. Keane is strongly critical of the stance of Ferguson. "Somebody I met in Ireland had told me to tell him (Ferguson), 'You are not going to win this'," he writes. "I mentioned it to him. And I told him that I didn't think it was good for the club, the manager in a legal dispute with shareholders.
"I felt I was entitled to say that. He was just a mascot for them. Walking around with this Rock Of Gibraltar - 'Look at me, how big I am' - and he didn't even own the bloody thing."
The Corkman does reveal that he had a clause in his contract which gave him shares in the Red Devils - which meant that the American takeover was 'worth a few bob.'
- See more at: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc....HdTUXLGQ.dpuf
The bit in bold is my favourite quote.That rug really tied the room together.
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“I rang Mark Hughes. Robbie [Savage] wasn’t in the Blackburn team and I asked Mark if we could try to arrange a deal. Sparky said: ‘Yeah, yeah, he’s lost his way here but he could still do a job for you.’ Robbie’s legs were going a bit but I thought he might come up to us [at Sunderland], with his long hair, and give us a lift – the way Yorkie [Dwight Yorke] had, a big personality in the dressing room. Sparky gave me permission to give him a call. So I got Robbie’s mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: ‘Hi, it’s Robbie – whazzup!’ like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: ‘I can’t be ****ing signing that.’”Originally posted by Gibbo View PostKeane is a bit of a cunt, but the Robbie Savage Whazaaap story did make me laugh.
That rug really tied the room together.
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