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21 of our favourite quotes from birthday boy Roy Keane

The Ireland assistant boss turns 44 today.

1. On Man United fans

Prawn

2. On pundits

Pundits

3. On Saipan

Roy Keane

4. On playing for Ireland

Ireland

5. On Mick McCarthy

Hell

6. On players’ wives

Beckham

7. On Liam Miller’s excuses for continually showing up late for training

Liam

8. On Rio Ferdinand

Rio

9. On his team’s performance against Middlesbrough during that famous MUTV rant

MUTV

10. To Jack Charlton, after Keane arrived half an hour late for the Ireland team bus

kEANE

11. On diving

Diving

12. On his position at Manchester United

United

13. On Gary Neville after that infamous tunnel spat with Patrick Vieira

Nev

14. On his return to the Ireland set-up

Ire

15. On Jamie Redknapp during the 1996 FA Cup final

Redknapp

16. On the 2002 World Cup debacle

Saipan

17. When asked about United potentially giving Alex Ferguson the bumps back in his playing days

Bumps

18. On Alex Ferguson, after his book revelations

keane-meme-2

19. On Cristiano Ronaldo’s Champions League celebrations

Roy Keane 3

20. On Patrick Vieira’s all-time Man United-Arsenal XI

Patrick

21. On Arsenal and selfies

selfies

And finally, here’s one of the most memorable interviews he gave:

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A version of this piece was previously published on 10 August 2014.

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    Mute Beano
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    Dec 17th 2015, 6:44 PM

    Anyone else sick of all this ‘he lost the dressing room’ rubbish as if its acceptable for players to down tools or not try because they dislike the manager? If I was a Chelsea fan, I’d be outraged. These players are grown men or astronomical wages. The fact that it’s seen as acceptable in modern football for players to not bother sums up everything that’s wrong with it

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    Mute ciananto
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    Dec 17th 2015, 6:57 PM

    To be fair to some of the players beano, n there’s a few of them that I really don’t like, I think it’s mainly mourinhos attitude / ego / bizarre post match interviews, and his deplorable treatment of the medical staff that is responsible for this! Players are responsible for their own performances I agree but when there’s been a consistent and prolonged malfunction like this one then the buck has to stop with the manager. And frankly his behaviour throughout this whole period has been disgraceful. If the manager is behaving in that way, why would the players play or behave any better. ?

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    Mute Greeg
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    Dec 17th 2015, 6:45 PM

    Redundancy of 40.000.000 €!! Happy days special one…

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    Mute Seamus Cummins
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    Dec 17th 2015, 7:44 PM

    Maybe now the players who have been playing totally rubbish will start getting the stick they deserve with no mourinho to blame or to Base the news stories on when Chelsea lose.

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    Mute Deiric O'fionnagain
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    Dec 17th 2015, 6:56 PM

    just be cafeful passing stamford bridge cause they giving ev1 3points:-)

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    Mute John Smith
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    Dec 17th 2015, 8:13 PM

    Absolutely insane sacking Mourinho. After all he’s done for the club you would think he earned the right to stay until the end of the season at least. If 2 or 3 players were an issue in the dressing room he would have gotten rid in January.

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    Mute Dave O Keeffe
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    Dec 17th 2015, 10:33 PM

    Did you same the same about Garry Monk?

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    Mute Deiric O'fionnagain
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    Dec 17th 2015, 6:54 PM

    why did this take so long

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