Manchester United

[danperkins]

Sounds like quite a perceptive fellow. I've an image in my head of that meeting now, and the subsequent puppy dog eyes on your mate.

absolutely destroyed the hero image to a 16 year old kid.... was hilarious actually thinking about it now

[McDermotX]

I’m sure most people remember the match; a United powered by Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo knocked and knocked on the Arsenal door but the Gunners held steady before eventually winning on penalties. Roy Keane remembers it vividly for another reason:

That was Patrick’s last game for Arsenal. He went to Juventus during the summer.

I got a real bad knock on my private parts in the first few minutes of the game. I carried on, but I got a scan about two weeks later after I’d played for Ireland in the Faroe Islands. I’d a torn groin. I’d never had an injury like it before. I slipped into a tackle, and Patrick literally kneed me – right in there. I was cut.

It was bad enough we’d lost the Cup final, but I was in agony as well. I couldn’t even sit down at the do that night. I had to go to bed at about ten o’clock.

[Paddy]

Most people get the perception of a thick and ignorant prick (which he is), but he knows how to sell a book.

[danperkins]

these snippets are ****ing amazing

[Shaggy]

[Paddy]

Looks so much younger pre Al-qeada days.

[danperkins]

Looks so much younger pre Al-qeada days.

[McDermotX]

It’s probably fair to say that if there’s anything to take away from this week it’s that being drip-fed a book tweet by tweet is far from an optimum situation. Granted, we have been entertained by all the goings on with Roy Keane’s as yet unreleased autobiography but there’s something to be said for reading a book as it was intended to be read. We’ve been privy to some very interesting anecdotes and some which were less interesting.

One such tidbit that we probably would have skimmed if we were reading the book was something which Keane had to say about former Ipswich Town player Pablo Couñago.

Pablo Couñago was a player I didn’t particularly like or get on with. No club was interested in taking him – and I was happy to tell him that. I just found him dead lazy. He went: ‘How are we going to win anything with you as manager?’ I nearly physically attacked him – but I didn’t.

Couñago has had his say today and, although we’re well aware of the Roy Keane overkill, it really is quite interesting to hear what he has to say.

I don’t know if it was because he didn’t want me to have that good relationship with the fans, because he said to me he never understood the relationship I had with the fans, why they sang my name, why they loved me.

I think it annoyed him. It was a big surprise for me, how it looked like he was jealous of that. For me it was like ‘what’s going on here?’, someone like Roy Keane, one of the biggest names in Manchester United history, and now he is getting annoyed because the people like me. He was the kind of person who could have everything and was never going to be happy. They look so big and strong standing there but really they are weaker than anyone.

He is the kind of person who thinks he knows everything. When such difficult characters go into management you have to do whatever they say or life is going to be difficult. He won everything as a player but when he tried to do it as manager there was nothing.

After the Ipswich job he didn’t get another job for a while because the other clubs start to know what you are like. He’s better as an assistant because he doesn’t have to do anything and he can be kept to one side.

Couñago is still highly regarded at Portman Road and he has sent a message to the fans through twtd.co.uk, in which he went even further in his criticism of Keane’s personality.

It seems like he needs to criticise players, managers and directors to keep selling books as he is not able to do anything else in football. It is a very sad ending for a person that was so big as a player.

As I told him once, I think he is a complete mess as a football manager. As he has said in his book, he wanted to hit me, but behind his appearance there’s a coward.

I just hope he can find happiness in his life as, in my opinion, being that miserable must be very mentally draining.

Can only imagine Keane sitting at home stewing reading that response..............if he was at home, or if he bothered reading it, or if he cared.

[BobTheCharmer]

the tackle he did behind on the bloke that ****ed him up while at Leeds was worse. Cowardly.

[Roboklopp]

Luis Garcia ****ted him tho.

[G]

I'm Irish and I've always loved him, even though he was with those cunts. He was a winner and demanded the same from the bumbling **** wits at the FAI and everyone else around him. I was in his court over Saipan although he handled it badly by walking out.

[Paddy]

#RoyKeaneHates Top trend

[McDermotX]

http://balls.ie/football/147-breakdown-of-all-the-swearing-in-the-new-roy-keane-book/

Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle collaborate on a book and it ends up containing a bucket-load of expletives. Who would’ve thought it?

‘The Second Half’ was officially released and it contains 177 ****s, ten *******s, five cunts, five ****s, four ******s, four pricks and three bull****s.

Here’s a breakdown, including the best use of each word.

177 ****s (including variations)
Best use of the word:

Keane talking about Kenny Cunningham as Ireland captain on his return to international football under Brian Kerr.

But Kenny Cunningham was the captain. I’d played with Kenny over the years. He was popular with the players. He’d always be organising card schools and quizzes and whip-rounds for the bus driver and for the woman who’d served us tea in 19-****in’-52. But most of the lads liked him.

10 *******s

Best use of the word:

Roy has a soft spot for the foreign lads.

Fabien Barthez and Laurent Blanc used to smoke together in the toilets, at half-time. They were French – they smoked. If it had been a couple of Irish lads, I’d have been shouting at them: ‘Yeh dirty *******s – get out!’

5 cunts
Best use of the word:

Roy talking about not standing with the Ipswich players on the pitch following a loss to Sheffield Utd in the last game of the ’09/10 season.

I made another mistake: I wouldn’t go out with them. We’d been beaten – we’d had a player sent off, which didn’t help. And we’d had a bad season. But I should have gone out. I should have stood with the players. If I’d been a player and the manager had said, ‘Ah, I’m too embarrassed to go out’, I think I’d have thought, ‘You cunt.’

5 ****s

Best use of the word:

Following a victory over Plymouth while managing Sunderland.

Ian Holloway was managing Plymouth. I didn’t get a real chance to celebrate the victory because Ian pulled me into a meeting to tell me all about the problems he was having getting training facilities. I was thinking, ‘I don’t give a **** about your training facilities. I just won a game of football.’

4 ******s
Best use of the word:

Talking about a run in with one of Steve Coppell’s assistants during a game against Reading.

I looked across at their dugout, and Kevin Dillon was looking back across, calling me a ******.

I go, ‘What – me?’

He goes, ‘Yeah – yeah. You’re always on at the ****ing referee.’ I said nothing back. I never got involved with opposition managers or staff – never.

We got to half-time, and I’m walking back to the tunnel beside Kevin Dillon, and I say, ‘Are you calling me a ******?’ And he goes, ‘Well, you’re always on at the referee.’ I said, ‘I never said **** all to the referee. Who the **** are you calling a ******?’

But I went to our dressing room, and thought no more of it.

4 pricks

Best use of the word:

On the day he left Manchester Utd.

So I thought, ‘All right— I’ll get fixed up.’

I knew there’d be clubs in for me when the news got out.

I said, ‘Yeah – I think we have come to the end.’ Michael still couldn’t believe it.

I just thought, ‘****in’ pricks—’ and I stood up and went, ‘Yeah. I’m off.’

3 bull****s

Best use of the word:

About working for ITV.

I didn’t feel that way with this work.

‘It’s an easy gig.’ I don’t like easy gigs.

When I heard, ‘I liked your commentary last night’, I knew: I was only talking bull****, like the rest of them. Hopefully, my bull**** was a bit better.

I wanted to do something that excited me. TV work didn’t excite me.

[G]

The biggest revelation for me was when he said he liked Adrian Chiles. He always looked like he wanted to smash his face in, suppose thats the normal demeanour for Roy.

[Shaggy]

They knock about together and have been seen together at a few big events. Went to the Aviva to watch a game of rugby if I remember.