Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane Backers

Locke · September 10, 2018, 7:11pm

“Ward” talking on a leaked WhatsApp voice message talking to no one, now it’s transcribed… fake news

Julio_Geordio:

This was sent on to me. Who knows if true or not

Here’s what Stephen Ward said in the WhatsApp message:

"So basically lads, Roy was getting on to the lads for not training three days in a row. Johnny’s got a bad knee so he can’t train all the time.
"They were at the training ground and him and Harry were just sitting on the bench, just relaxing and icing themselves and stuff. Roy walked over and was like, ‘Why aren’t you lads training?’ and he blatantly knew why they weren’t training because the manager would have told him and they were like, ‘We can’t do three days in a row’. ‘What are you guys? Professional footballers? That’s a shambles that is’. The both didn’t say anything and Roy walked off and came back over again, ‘So when are you going to train, I’m sick of people pulling out with injuries, what the f** is wrong with ya?’ and the lads were like, ‘Listen, we’ve got problems, we do it at our clubs, we can’t do it’. Roy said something under his breath about Johnny and walked off.

"Johnny lost his head, jumped off the bench and walked after him, grabbed his arm and said, ‘What’s the story Roy? If you’ve got a problem say it to my face, don’t fking walk off’ and he was like, 'I do have a problem, you’re not training, you’re getting soft, it’s no wonder Dyche doesn’t play ya, you’re fking always looking for an argument like you are now’ and he was like, ‘No Roy, you are the one trying to start an argument’, and apparently they were squaring off to each other and having it off and had to be pulled off each other. All the lads were grabbing Johnny away from him… Johnny was going to kill him.
"Roy brought up something about when they were at Ipswich together, they had like a falling out as well. ‘You’re threatening me again Jon, like you did at Ipswich’, and Johnny was like, ‘Yeah, are you going to be a s**thouse again and send me my fine in the post rather than say it to my face?’.

"It blew over for a few days and then they flew out to France and Johnny apparently just text Roy was like, ‘Listen Roy, I’m in room whatever, if you wanna come up, you’ve obviously got something on your mind that pisses you off about me because it’s causing tension in the squad, let’s talk it out’. Apparently Roy just wrote back, ‘Nah, I’m just here to help players. People like you… stay out of each other’s way. You don’t need to reply to this message’, and that was that.

"They got back from France and Harry felt his quad in training again. So he wasn’t training. Apparently he was getting treatment in the treatment room and Roy walked in and was like, ‘When are you going to train you fucking prick?’ and Harry was like, ‘What?’, and he was like, ‘Any chance of you training?’. He explained the situation again and Roy was going off going, ‘You’re a fking prk, you’re a ct, you don’t even care, you don’t wanna train’, and Harry was just going, ‘Roy, I’m not speaking to you like this. I’m not listening to you. You’re not the manager. You can’t say anything to me’.
"Apparently Roy was going mad getting worse and worse and Harry got up off the treatment bed and was walking back to his room. As he was walking back Roy was shouting down the corridor, 'You’re a fking prk, you’re a ct you’ve been all your life’ and that was really it lads.

artfoley · September 10, 2018, 7:15pm

Julio_Geordio · September 10, 2018, 7:16pm

That’s what the cool kids do nowadays send each other voice messages. We’ve come full circle.

backinatracksuit · September 10, 2018, 7:17pm

Who the fuck was that idiot talking to?

Julio_Geordio · September 10, 2018, 7:19pm

Some right fuddy duddies on here these days

backinatracksuit · September 10, 2018, 7:19pm

Humour me mate.

dodgy_keeper · September 10, 2018, 7:33pm

To be fair, going by that version of events, Walters seems a decent guy and a person of principle. Threw out the olive branch with the text and thrown back in his face.

Arter and Ward come out very badly of it, for different reasons. What kind of coward is Arter, to sit there and not defend himself if he’s injured and advised not to train. And then run away from the squad when he has the hump. Weak character. And Ward like a teenage girl recording his juicy little tidbits. That cunt was at fault for about three goals versus Denmark in the play off.

Keane - great player, cunt of a man.

backinatracksuit · September 10, 2018, 7:34pm

100% agreed

gilgamboa · September 10, 2018, 7:37pm

Ward reminds me of the lads on here sending ‘PM please pal’ messages when there is a hint of a scandal

artfoley · September 10, 2018, 7:38pm

We have a good laugh at those lads in the WhatsApp group.

Tassotti · September 10, 2018, 7:40pm

absolute wankers

anon32894817 · September 10, 2018, 7:42pm

I’m not sure what age lads are on here but nowadays “lads” what’s apps groups are mainly recordings.

Julio_Geordio · September 10, 2018, 7:48pm

A load of lads shouting “nice one bruva” down the phone at each other, quoting a film they’ve never seen, because it’s the latest fad imported from the boys on the mainland. I guess that’s the way it’s gone these days

anon32894817 · September 10, 2018, 7:49pm

I’d imagine the lad talking about the kids that picked up aids was a whats app recording too. It’s very common.

Bandage · September 10, 2018, 7:52pm

I do it all the time.

Julio_Geordio · September 10, 2018, 7:53pm

Nice one bruva

gilgamboa · September 10, 2018, 7:55pm

Il take a PM please pal

the_man_himself · September 10, 2018, 7:58pm

Walters is a much greater Irishman than Roy Keane, despite probably not considering himself as being Irish when growing up

Tassotti · September 10, 2018, 7:59pm

a proper irishman

Julio_Geordio · September 10, 2018, 8:01pm

Walters would have no problem training on a car park for his country