Roy Keane Makes a lot of sense

Roy Keane Makes a lot of sense

And what Journo would leave their phone ringing like that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTHCAtI_Mf8

he actually makes a lot of sense

Yep, telling it like it is. 

love that journo getting a blasting and trying to make excuses good on you Roy but dirty French

Yeah, had to chuckle at Keane shredding the journo. But well said Roy.

...it's not going to change, France are going to the World Cup, get over it.

Yea wish it wasnt but i gota face it but im surre this will live on forever in irish minds about THAT hand ball

Well, I prefer France over Ireland so I'm happy they got through. Though I do like France a little less after the handball.

Would hate to be the journo with the phone.

Interesting interview. Keane combines a pragmatic "it's done, defenders should have dealt with the ball better, get over it" with "another chance to stick the boot in on the FAI".

As an Ipswich Town supporter, I'd rather he concentrate on his day job

He just wants them to take some responsibility and stop being whiny little bitches. I applaud him for that.

nah, they were cheated. they had a tough group, went toe to toe with Italy, then got the rough end of the stick when Fifa decided to seed the play-off draw, played really well in Paris, locked the tie up and were only denied by the most blatant hand ball and attrocious piece of refereeing. They did take responsibility throughout their campaign, played bloody well, footed it with a couple of the world's best sides and then got shafted. Fair enough to be bloody disgruntled and to whine. THey were seriously wronged and it had nothing to do with their performance on the field - so Keane can go take a jump.

Yeah, but they're asking for replays and now going even as far as asking to be included as the 33rd team at the World Cup.

They need to move on.

Disagree. Firstly, the 'plucky' Ireland going toe to toe with Italy in atough group doesn't hold water. The only reason they were in the play-off in the first place is because of the most ridicuolus penalty I've ever seen against Georgia (which turned the game from 0-1 to 2-1 for Ireland in the last 15). It's on youtube, have a look at it of you want. They had no problem with a refereeing mistake then, but all of a sudden now they're the biggest victims since Apartheid. They weren't shafted with the seeding of the play-off - FIFA had seeded the playoffs for the 2006 World Cup, and gave no indication that they would change the procedure this time around. If Ireland wasn't aware of that, then that's again their problem. Finally, if they had indeed played that well in the playoff and 'deserved' to go the World Cup, all they had to do was score another goal, at any time during the 210 minutes of the tie, and none of this would have mattered. So whose fault is that? It's easy to blame everyone and everything, and not accept the responsibility that their players had the opportunity throughout the two-legged tie to make a refereeing mistake irrelevant, and they weren't good enough to do so. Tough luck. Move on, and stop from turning into a joke in world footballing circles. Because they're on that road already.el grapadura2009-12-01 12:00:30

only one point to make.

I agree in principle that the final play-offs should not be seeded.

But it's also wrong for the FAI to claim they got shafted by the seeding when it was plain to pretty much everyone that that's the road FIFA started going down already in the previous qualifying cycle.

I dont agree with the point saying "Ireland had 210 minutes to score another goal". Everything else I do though.
If Ireland had that long to score another goal, so did france. If a world cup final is 1-1 deep into extra time and someone is awarded a penalty even though they dived, is it fair to say the other team was cheated out of a penalty shootout? Probably, yes it is