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I wanna puke. Roy Keane? The dirtiest, most vindictive, handbag carrying, ref abuseing, foul mouthed git your side of the atlantic is awarded footballs top two awards. How can this be? Because all reporters are london based manure fans. Anyone that gets as booked as much as keane does should be excluded from the polls. Unless you want to vindicate that sort of behavior. And how come we are shite against worse teams, we only took 11 points from a possible 18 from the three teams that will be relegated.

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2000

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Er.....wasn't it Player's player of the year? Seems that his peers don't mind his attitude as much as the rest of the world!

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2000

I think it's his attitude toward contract negotiation$ the other players really liked.

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2000

Apparently, Keane's really p*ssed off that manure have actually quoted his new contract as a/the reason for increasing the season ticket prices in their letter to the ticket holders.

Where does the dozy pratt think the money comes from? Out of SAF's backside?

BTW, I totally agree with Syme about his Award. He's a moron, who despoils the lovely game, and set the worst possible example to youngsters who will unquestionably emulate his appalling behaviour. His winning of this award serves only to discredit the game IMHO.

Only one of the awards was for the Player's Player. I believe the other was by the football writers. I guess both sets of "voters" voting credentials are highly questionable anyway.

Anyone think he'd win a "Fans Player of the Year Award"? No way.

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2000


Rumour has it that they all voted for Roy Keane cos he told them all he would chin them if they didn't.

The 'one good thing' of it all is that a vote for him meant one less for the Makem Munchkin....god they would have been insufferable if that little tw@t had won it.

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2000


>>>>>Anyone think he'd win a "Fans Player of the Year Award"? No way. <<<<<

Sorry Clarky, I don't want to get into another long diatrible arguement with you on this one, but I think that the answer to your question I'm afraid would probably be yes.

Because of the number of glory seeking tw@ts out there, if the vote was given to the fans, they probably would have voted for him as well, that is why all such lists and votes are very much a subjective matter of personal opinion.

Now if it was me, I would have voted for Warren Barton as one of the best, most consistant and most improved players of the season, but other would disagree.

What is the best, what constitutes the best, who decides what is best?

Slightly aside from the Roy Keane issue, but on the same(ish)line, I read the results of a poll in one of the papers today which was supposedly the top twenty music albums of all time, and Bridge Over Troubled Water wasn't even mentioned....an album that was in the charts for about two hundred years....so who the hell votes for these things, see it is all subjective.....

The one thing you can always hold solace to in this matter is.....WE, the important people, all know Roy Keane is a total tw@t!

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2000



Actually, I thought Keane behaved well when Fergie/Edwards were p*ss*ng about with his contract. He never let it get at his game. However, I have to agree about him being a tw@t. But how much of that is character and how much instilled into him by Taggart? Anybody remember what he was like at Forest? Mind, things were different in those days. It was a man's game then.

-- Anonymous, May 01, 2000

He was okay at Forest, had bit of an edge to him but not a whole bleedin canyon. He pissed the Forest fans off by leaving to go to a bigger club, but who doesn't feel aggrieved when their darling does that

-- Anonymous, May 02, 2000

He's always had that edge....wasn't he some kind of junior boxing champion in Ireland? I get the impression that his edge comes from the fact that he KNOWS that he can handle himself very well....

I'd back him against Ince or most other so called hard men any day...

-- Anonymous, May 02, 2000


Keane's attitude is something that get's right up my nose. I felt the same about McEnroe.

I couldn't care less if I miss out on displays of their sporting skill - they're all one offs, and there are others just as skillful who don't feel it necessary to contest every decision. The tantrums give me the sh*ts. And acknowledging such players is as if we were saying that if you don't have that sort of attitude, you can't be a winner.

Boll*x. Pete Sampras comes across as featureless and boring most of the time, but he's as much a winner as Keane and McEnroe. Give me that approach every time, kick the worky tickets into touch - wouldn't bother me one bit never ever to have seen Keane or any other "sportsman" tarred with the same brush.

-- Anonymous, May 02, 2000


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