Haaland and Keane

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Hardly surprising as they won't be in the same league come August!

Manchester City's Alfie Haaland insists he will not seek retribution for the horror-tackle which saw Roy Keane sent off in Saturday's derby with United.

The Norway star admits there is an ongoing feud between him and Keane, but claims the Irishman is the aggressor.

Haaland told The Sun: "I think it was the worst tackle I've ever received. I was lucky to walk away. But there will be no revenge from my point of view."



-- Anonymous, April 24, 2001

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For Keane to have only received the mandatory sending-off suspension for such violent conduct does the PL or the game in general no favours whatsoever.
Solano receives a two match ban for his automatic reaction in handling the ball on the goal line, and Keane gets a 3 match ban, extended to 4 because he'd already been s/o this season, for a tackle that could very easily have maimed his opponent for life. Where's the justice or common sense in that?

As Joe Royle said "If Alf's leg had been on the ground at impact, we might still be looking for it!"

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2001


Gentlemen that was not a tackle , not in any coaching manual, it was deliberate assault , Roy Keane is so vastly overated as a player,and I am sure LR will agree.

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2001

I can't believe that the FA aren't taking this further. To be honest I found his behaviour after the tackle, ie spitting on the ground, mouthing off at Haaland and self satisfied look of a job well done worse than the tackle itself.

Surely there must be something the FA can do about this.

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2001


SE - you have to remember he plays for the ManU golden boys. The FA will do sweet FA.

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2001

Haddaway & Shite?

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2001


Brush off, or suggested prosecutors, Gus?

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2001

I bet there will be another story if the tackle was made Patrick Viera. Honestly, the FA is always manure biased. The refs always let the golden boys to escape from the bad tackles. I don't know why but it will be very interesting if you look at their playing style and imagine they got the fewest number of yellow cards in the PL.

If spitting cost a suspension for 4-5 games, that "tackle" would at least ban him for 10 games. That is absolutely not a professional or even a human beings'behaviour.

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2001


i seem to remember a discussion on here a few moons ago where LR was suggesting that David Batty was more of a thug than Roy Keane....

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2001

Sorry I tok so long clarky, just a play on the names and what I think about the two of 'em

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001

Nee probs Gus - I just thought H&S must be a firm of Newcastle Solicitors! ;-{)

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2001


It was an accident.

-- Anonymous, April 27, 2001

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