Off the Ball on Newstalk

[anon26343222]

@Cicero_Dandi

Absolutely, by the end of his career he had been shown up to be a cardboard hardman, being openly mocked by Jason McAteer when doing one of his trademark “let me at him” behind a group of players. Shearer laughing his hole at him when he lost the plot. The facade was evident and the aura was gone.

He then went off to Scotland for a half a season where a shoe cobbler made bits of him in a domestic cup tie.

I still remember he put Zidane and juventus in his back pocket. That shoe cobbler must have been fair good to do that to him.

[backinatracksuit]

He couldn’t lace Keano’s boots

[Juhniallio]

@Perez2017

Why do the audience laugh at everything Keane says?

Cos he has excellent comic timing?

[anon26343222]

We’ll never have a player like Keane again. Utd aren’t the same without him. Teams were afraid of him.

[backinatracksuit]

I played against Keano when he was at Ranblers, I was 15 playing youths football, he scored a bullet header from a corner where I was picking him up.
Easily the best Irish player of my lifetime, one of the worlds best at his peak, but an awful oddball, I genuinely think he has lots of the traits you’d see in high achieving autistic people

[Perez2017]

Definetely has he’s issues.

[dodgy_keeper]

The Off the Ball lads are circling the wagons.

“Johnny” Ward has bit and responded to Neville on twitter.

[the_man_himself]

@Cicero_Dandi

He then went off to Scotland for a half a season where a shoe cobbler made bits of him in a domestic cup tie

[myboyblue]

A shoe cobbler as opposed to a peach cobbler?

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

He was nowhere near being the best in the world. He isn’t rated outside Ireland

[backinatracksuit]

That’s right mate

[anon26343222]

I remember him putting Figo in his pocket too.

[Sidney]

To be fair, Keane must be the only Irishman to ever score for Real Madrid in a European Cup quarter-final

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

When?

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

The dan McDonnell Johny ward double act is very good

[anon7035031]

I think you’re being harsh on the autistic who are generally very gentle and rarely violent, the worst from them is usually inappropriate language. There’s probably another spectrum Keane is on but it’s not autistic.

[backinatracksuit]

I don’t think you have much experience going on this that comment mate

[Rocko]

@Sidney

Ferguson was well within his rights to get rid of him and indeed, more than that, it was the sensible football decision. Keane had become a disruptive and malign influence. He was well past his best as a player and wasn’t the sort that would help younger players along, he saw them as a threat to him.

I don’t think anyone would argue against that, especially consisting he retired at the end of that season.
I think from Keane’s point of view, it was cowardly to use the malign influence as an excuse to dismiss him when they could have parted amicably and when that sort of challenging of teammates was encouraged by Ferguson until Keane got too old to contribute as meaningfully on the pitch.

[anon7035031]

I can guarantee you I have a lot more experience than you.

[backinatracksuit]

Do you think?
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