Yet again the incomparable Patrick Collins hits the nail fair and square on the head, this bloke is the best in the business by a long, long way IMHO.
Patrick Collins on Roy Keane's arrival at Ipswich:
He hasn't changed, not a bit. He remains a study in surly self-absorption. He aimed a couple of slights at Mark Hughes and Steve Bruce and sneered at his former international colleague Tony Cascarino.
He spoke of his fear of losing, his burning desire to achieve, his implacable independence, as if he possessed the monopoly on those qualities.
And he switched on lots of icily dramatic stares. In short, he produced a typical Roy Keane performance.
The act is wearing tediously thin.
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Brilliant stuff.
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Good fare from Mr Collins, like you say OA he's best in business by a long way.
LOL...careful....you aint been back long, LOL
I cant forgive him for calling McCarthy an English c*** and getting away with it.
I imagine he wll walk out or get canned from Ipswich within the next 18 months and lots of interesting dirt wil be dished by the team he leaves behind.
His ego means he builds himself up to an impossible degree, which only makes his failure more likely.
It's just made up. How could he say those things in a way that might satify little Pat that he acknowledges that other people possess those qualities? The man worked closely with Clough and Sir and was lauded for having just those qualities, so it seems normal to me, that they come over loud and clear. I kind of doubt that he believes that Sir Alex does not. Maybe someone could put me right and dig up a quote, from Keane rather than something bleched out of Collins's head, that proves me wrong.
If the bloke was bland then Collins and his ilk would bemoan the lack of characters in the game.
Bourne, do you want to edit that so it makes sense... ;-D
Surely the "incomparable" Patrick Collins could think up something more original and incisive than this?
Just reads to me as standard journalistic stuff, trotting out all the usual cliches, mind you if it is for the Daily Mail then it probably comes across as an in-depth psychological analysis.
Patrick Collins isn't the worst writer in football, but he's a long, long way from being the best.
Who said he called him that, I've read McCarthy's book, Keane's book and Quinn's book, they all talk about the bust up. Not one of them used that phrase or any thing like it.
It was reported elsewhere at the time by people there that Keane used those words, and ones like "up your Boll***", but Dunphy watered it down for his book.
Exactly, and some of the people who have quoted Keane as saying it were team mates (Quinn), so it's not a witch hunt because I dislike him, some of his colleagues and future employers quote the outburst.