Anyone watch the Roy Keane programme on TV3???

Incredible to hear Bertie Ahern talking about Man Utd as "us" shocking from an Irish Leader IMO.

KEANE WAS A traitor TO HIS COUNTRY.A HORRIBLE LITTLE CNUT.END OF RANT.

the greatest player ever to grace an irish pitch... he just wanted the country to improve

RUBBISH,HE WAS AND STILL IS A LITTLE DICTATOR,FCUK HIM HE COULDNT MANAGE IVY TO GROW UP A WALL.

Paul McGrath was the greatest player to wear an Irish shirt. Keane was a fine player but disgraced himself in 2002.

Dundalk.......next thing you'll be telling us is 'Staunton ' is normal.   Get a grip man, Keane might be tinsmith material, but he was right to expose McCarthy as a buffoon.   
Perhaps he should have waited 'till the tourney was over, but he's a hothead and don't wear a watch or calender.

oh dear dundalk,he only got sunderland from bottom of the championship to the premier league,cant manage though

idiot

MC Carthy was a plonker stll is,hate the tramp....

i'll alway remember keanes miraculous recoveries when out injured for ireland on midweek friendys but somehow been able to play for man u on the weekend. wafc he was/still is

Keane is a class act, he stands up to bullies and he doesn't showboat like Niall Quinn [:D]

keane is a traitor to his country , had more time for his fooking dogs than this country .

Keane is a Great man,Gentleman of the highest order!

TV3 trying to present facts ? May I Suggest a pinch of salt!!

McCarthys job was to "MANAGE" the talent, he'd no experience of managing millionnaire superstars like Roy, unfortunately.

maxheadroom
i'll alway remember keanes miraculous recoveries when out injured for ireland on midweek friendys but somehow been able to play for man u on the weekend. wafc he was/still is

He was dead right to give the friendlies a miss. What do you think an international manager was going to learn from watching him in a meaningless match. Would you have preferred him to get injured in a friendly and miss a competitive match.

keane is a gent

A summary of some of his most notable achievements and for what he will be remembred, A LANGER1991: Makes Republic of Ireland debut in 1-1 draw with Chile in Dublin.

1992: Arrested after rowdy scenes outside a Nottingham nightclub, but released without charge.

1993: January - thrown out of another nightclub after being caught up in a brawl.


1995: Sent-off for first time in career for stamping on Crystal Palace's Gareth Southgate during FA Cup semi-final replay. Hit with disrepute charge by Football Association and later fined £5,000.

Shown red card twice in first three months of 1995-96 campaign, at Blackburn in August and at home to Middlesbrough in October.

1996: March - Sent-off on his 30th appearance for the Republic of Ireland against Russia in Mick McCarthy's first match as manager.

May - Helps United clinch historic second double with 1-0 FA Cup Final win over Liverpool. Fails to report for McCarthy's testimonial and Irish training after going on holiday to Italy, is denied Republic captaincy and left out for six matches by the national boss.

1997: April - Misses penalty for Ireland against Romania and escapes without punishment after being involved in alleged butting incident.



September - In the early hours of September 25, is caught up in a scuffle at a Stretford hotel following 2-2 draw with Chelsea but witness statements are withdrawn and no action is taken.

Also interviewed by police over claims that he threatened a neighbour during a row over Keane's straying dogs.

September - Injures his knee trying to foul Leeds United's Alfie Haaland at Elland Road.

October 2 - Manchester United announce he will miss the rest of the season with cruciate ligament damage.

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1999: January - Claims he will leave United if new contract does not satisfy him.

April - Sent-off against Arsenal in FA Cup semi-final replay for two bookable offences. Also booked in Champions League semi-final second leg against Juventus ruling him out of final against Bayern Munich.


May 17 - Arrested after woman alleges he kicked her in a bar - but released without charge.

November - After missing start of Champions League campaign through injury, an uncharacteristic backpass blunder gifts Fiorentina first of their two goals in United's defeat in Italy.


February - Sent-off in 3-0 defeat at Newcastle.


August - Sent-off in Charity Shield at Wembley for two bookings, the second for a cynical challenge from behind on Chelsea's Gustavo Poyet.

November - Criticises lack of atmosphere at Old Trafford accusing corporate spectators of being unable  to spell football never mind understand it  and only being interested in prawn sandwiches.

2001: March -  criticises FAI over the facilities at the team's training base.

April - Criticises United team-mates suggesting it may be time to improve the squad following their Champions League quarter-final defeat by Bayern Munich.

Sent-off after again after horrific pre-meditated lunge at Haaland in United's derby encounter with Manchester City.

September - Sent-off for the ninth time in his United career after raising his hands at Newcastle United's Alan Shearer.

October - Insists he is not stalling over the terms of a new United contract.


2002:  - Keane is sent home from the World Cup after a row with Republic of Ireland manager Mick McCarthy in Saipan.

August - Keane's autobiography is serialised in The Times and the News of the World in which he admits his red-card tackle on Haaland was deliberate.

Keane also claims he would have played in the World Cup had manager Mick McCarthy not accused him of feigning injury.

August 16 - Manchester City and Haaland announce they will jointly sue Keane over the tackle.

September 1 - Keane sent-off for elbowing Jason McAteer during Manchester United's 1-1 draw at Sunderland.


September 4 - Charged by the Football Association with two counts of bringing the game into disrepute - both relating to the Haaland incident. Keane given 14 days to respond.

September 17 - Given 48-hour extension to the deadline to respond to FA charges.

September 20 - Confirms he is to contest both charges.

October 15 - FA committee finds him guilty of both charges. He is banned for five games and fined £150,000 subject to appeal.

November 7 - Confirms he will not appeal against the punishment.

December 22 - Returns to action in United's 1-0 Premiership defeat at Blackburn.

2003: February 11 - Despite the efforts of new Ireland manager Brian Kerr to tempt him back into the Republic's set-up, Keane announces his intention to retire from international football.


2004: February 25 - Sent-off as United lose in Porto in a Champions League last-16 clash.

April 13 - Announces he will again play for Republic of Ireland.

April 20 - Recalled to Republic squad for friendly against Poland but later pulls out with injury.

May 27 - Makes first appearance for Ireland since McCarthy bust-up in friendly with Romania.

September 21 - Charged with assault and criminal damage by police. Denies the charges.

2005: February 1 - Involved in tunnel row with Patrick Vieira before United's 4-2 win against Arsenal.


May 20 - Member of the United team beaten on penalties by Arsenal in FA Cup final.

July - Left out of United's squad for tour of Far East due to hamstring injury. United deny anything more sinister is cause of his absence.

August - Alex Ferguson admits he had a row with Keane at United's pre-season training camp in Portugal in July.

September 14 - Keane ruled out of action for two weeks due to hamstring injury.

September 29 - Announces he expects to leave United at the end of the 2005-06 season but plans to play on for 'another year or two' with a non-English club.

October 14 - Announces his international retirement for a second time.

November 18 - Keane leaves Manchester United by mutual consent.

i never supported an english team db1974. i have no interest in manu liverpool or such.all i wanted was to see this and other so called legends playing for MY TEAM IRELAND yet most of the time he never showed up citing illness injury etc yet he could be seeing playing against wigan bolton or whoever a few days later.that was his attitude to the NATIONAL team.most of the rest managed to turn up for these games.suppose thats what made his special in your eyes tho

Keane was a winner and wanted things done the right way............he wasn't one of the "sure for a small country didn't we do ok" brigade.

I never said he was special

I just said he was right not to play in the meaningless friendlies, especially in seasons which consisted of up to 60 competitive games.

I'm sorry but only an idiot would complain about him not playing International friendles

Honours
[edit] Player
[edit] Club
Nottingham Forest
Full Members Cup (1): 1992
Manchester United
Premier League (7): 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03
FA Cup (4): 1993–94, 1995–96, 1998–99, 2003–04
FA Community Shield (4): 1993, 1996, 1997, 2003
UEFA Champions League (1): 1998–99
Intercontinental Cup (1): 1999
Celtic
Scottish Premier League (1): 2005–06
Scottish League Cup (1): 2005–06
[edit] Individual
FWA Footballer of the Year: 2000
PFA Players' Player of the Year: 2000
Strogaldo De Legendary Award: 1999 & 2007
Premier League 10 Seasons Awards (1992–93 to 2001–02): Overseas Team of the Decade
English Football Hall of Fame: 2004
Premier League Player of the Month (2): October 1998, December 1999
FIFA 100
[edit] Manager
[edit] Club
Sunderland
Football League Championship (1): 2006–07
[edit] Individual
Football League Championship Manager of the Month (2): February 2007, March 2007

Thats more like it toby, us irish always seem to want to knock our own. His main problem was being a PERFECTIONIST.

PERFECTIONIST at moaning all the fkn time, he was no best platini or zidane, even brady was more talented.overrated pup.

What the man won should convince any neutrals of his true value he was the leader and best player in both a great United side and a good Ireland side. What any manager would give to have such a driving force in midfield.

Manchester United announce he will miss the rest of the season with cruciate ligament damage.Laugh
Hillarious indeed

McGrath is not close to Keane I don't think McGrath himself would even claim that. He is a good footballer a likeable guy but somehow the shyness, alcoholisim and the dodgy knees leave people nostalgic for him.

End of the day in this thread,  people have such chips on their shoulders when it comes to Keane the mere mention of his name has forumites frothing at the mouth and yes while he is divisive people are in no way objective over the truth.

People highlight incidents which he was never charged with nor convicted of due in a number of cases to fabrication of evidence from little scrotes looking for either a payoff or five minutes of fame as some sort of evidence of his nasty streak.

He wasn't there to be anyones role model and while he was no saint at times those of us with an interest in football even sport prefer to remember the force of nature that he was on the football pitch capable of winning you games on his own which he did for both club and country. Upon his return from injury in 1998 he was probobly the best midfielder in the world for 2-3 seasons.

Inspirational figure.  Shame more Irish can't replicate his drive and ambition. 

Dragged us into that WC practically single-handedly (MOTM in all key games).  Carried a bad hip injury to Saipan.  United medics told him not to travel.  He went because he genuinely felt we could win it (one wonders how many others in the squad possed this level of belief).  Preparations a shambles.  Everyone on the p*ss.  Then he gets accused of faking an injury by a muppet liked McCarthy.  He should have flattened him!

Inspirational figure lmfao what has he inspired you to do? try to break someones leg?have a go at some young wan, threaten a neighbour i could go on......

This video displays his real talents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AYeY1aAnhk

spot on the gotchee , he was evil imo.

the real captain fantastic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tf6mrA0-tA

All the Keane fanatics always go on about how right he was about Saipan, the preparation etc. But if you actually analyse the original idea behind Saipan and then our actually performances you will see there was merit in McCarthy's and the FAI's decision to go there. Ireland used their time to acclimatise to the climate and conditions in Japan and Korea. When we got to WC our fitness levels were excellent-case in point being we scored late goals in all our games. If you look at most of the other teams from similar climates they struggled with conditions at WC-now that's poor preparation! A few missed bibs and balls was an easy fix.
There has been lots of crap on here about how this was the worse Irish team in decades after one poor game v Russia. If you look back on when McCarthy took over he probably had the worse ever squad to work with. He also had to change a team from a system of long ball under the Charlton era to a side that actually played some very good football in 2002.
And one more thing Keane walked out on Ireland the day before McCarthy eventually had enough of his disruptive influence on the squad.

Ye im sure that is all that was wrong, a few missing bibs and balls. If he had of said nothing, and gave out when he came back people would say why didnt u say something at the time it could have got changed!!

exactly arthur , one story of saipan is the panel were called to a meeting to be told by a doctor the advantages of a particular drink to take for dehydration, acclimatising etc.

By all accounts the meeting went on for 90 mins plus only for an fai official to then stand up and say that the drinks wouldnt be arriving for 10 days

Missed it, thank God.

PERFECTIONIST at moaning all the fkn time, he was no best platini or zidane, even brady was more talented.overrated pup.

I dont think even Keane rated himself in the same bracket talent wise as the above, he was the first to admit that he had limited ability but what he did do was to maximise and use those abilities as best he could.

Never met the man, not a man utd fan but admired him for his work ethic and the way he would lead a team, he demanded that his team mates worked as hard as he did.

sure he was no angel, and if you are going to cite being thrown out of nightclubs and being involved in pub scuffles as proof that you are an undesireable --- well id say thats most of the forum shagged :-).

what happened in saipan was badly handled by all involved, but imo you never call someones integrity into question infront of everyone else, something like that is always away from the rest of the "staff".

as a manager hes still in his infancy, give him time before judging him on that.