1. On Man United fans
2. On pundits
3. On Saipan
4. On playing for Ireland
5. On Mick McCarthy
6. On players’ wives
7. On Liam Miller’s excuses for continually showing up late for training
8. On Rio Ferdinand
9. On his team’s performance against Middlesbrough during that famous MUTV rant
10. To Jack Charlton, after Keane arrived half an hour late for the Ireland team bus
11. On diving
12. On his position at Manchester United
13. On Gary Neville after that infamous tunnel spat with Patrick Vieira
14. On his return to the Ireland set-up
15. On Jamie Redknapp during the 1996 FA Cup final
16. On the 2002 World Cup debacle
17. When asked about United potentially giving Alex Ferguson the bumps back in his playing days
18. On Alex Ferguson, after his book revelations
19. On Cristiano Ronaldo’s Champions League celebrations
20. On Patrick Vieira’s all-time Man United-Arsenal XI
21. On Arsenal and selfies
And finally, here’s one of the most memorable interviews he gave:
A version of this piece was previously published on 10 August 2014.
Cab driver in Cork told me that when Keane signed for Man Utd, his dad came out of the toilet in the local pub with his lad in his hand saying, “Bet ye never thought this was worth 3 million pound”. I hope it’s a true story.
My favourite Keane quote is when his wife asked him how come he has his kids names tattooed on his arm but not hers. His reply was ‘I’ll never divorce them but I might divorce you’ :)
Not to be pedantic but I think it was ‘they’ll always be my kids…’
Dead right. I knew I was close
Happy Birthday Keano .
Mick McCarty “Where’s your respect?”
Roy “Where’s your first touch?”.
Video footage Football Gold…Keano love him hate him…still a LEGEND.
10 and 17 get my vote! Brill
“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men……..”
Langer
Bogus dude!
Dude, I’ll send the evil robot us’s around to you.
13 14 and 20. Ya won’t beat a bit of Irish humour!
love them all, vintage Keano !!!
Happy birthday to possibly the last real hardman football will see
“in the middle of the perk”……