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I'd go for Swansea's Roberto Martinez, His teams play good footbal and hopefully he could take the piss out of the fat waiter across the park
 

deathbyropeandglass said:
YouTube - Roy Keane

Ok Haaland shouted something at Keane seconds after an accidental collision that saw Keane injured.

Keane then being the super tough hard man he is deliberatly tried to cripple the guy. An act which has no place on a football field.

There's no 2 ways about it. Roy Keane is a lowlife piece of [Poor language removed] who deliberatly snapped a fellow players leg in half because of an accident. Doesn't matter what Halland might of done, there is NO justifacation for that.

It was out and out GBH. It wasn't a spur of the moment thing, it was a planned out attack.
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If someone did that right off the bat (what Keane did to Haaland) I'd 100% agree with you. I'm not advocating what Keane did, just putting it into context. I hate players who are thugs, who go all out to destroy the opposition like that. In no way shape or form can you put Keane (or, for that matter, Duncan Ferguson) into that sh1thouse category. When they went in all guns blazing it was after an incident had occured. I can't remember either just flying in with intent to put another player out of the game.
 
davek said:
If someone did that right off the bat (what Keane did to Haaland) I'd 100% agree with you. I'm not advocating what Keane did, just putting it into context. I hate players who are thugs, who go all out to destroy the opposition like that. In no way shape or form can you put Keane (or, for that matter, Duncan Ferguson) into that sh1thouse category. When they went in all guns blazing it was after an incident had occured. I can't remember either just flying in with intent to put another player out of the game.
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Its the fact that Keane waited to get revenge on Haaland (which obviously he had to cause he was unable to do so straight away) that is the difference. That and the fact Keanes injury was an accident and he should of been man enough to get over that during his recovery no matter what Haaland said to him directly after.

Instead he deliberatly went out to seriously injure Haaland and end his career. If it was a spur of the moment rush of blood to the head incident i could probably understand it. But it wasn't.

For me that goes beyond anything Ferguson ever done, beyond Cantonas kung fu kick, beyond Thatchers elbow, beyond anything else Keane done in his career (and there were numerous violent incidents, none of which would give me the same opinion of him as the Haaland one did)

It was pre meditated assault, and while yes there was a reason for it that reason just not justify it.
 

deathbyropeandglass said:
Its the fact that Keane waited to get revenge on Haaland (which obviously he had to cause he was unable to do so straight away) that is the difference. That and the fact Keanes injury was an accident and he should of been man enough to get over that during his recovery no matter what Haaland said to him directly after.

Instead he deliberatly went out to seriously injure Haaland and end his career. If it was a spur of the moment rush of blood to the head incident i could probably understand it. But it wasn't.

For me that goes beyond anything Ferguson ever done, beyond Cantonas kung fu kick, beyond Thatchers elbow, beyond anything else Keane done in his career (and there were numerous violent incidents, none of which would give me the same opinion of him as the Haaland one did)

It was pre meditated assault, and while yes there was a reason for it that reason just not justify it.
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I'd concede that was the chilling part of the incident. It reminds me of the way in which Dalglish targetted Kevin Moran after he got back from the cheekbone injury he received off the United man (who actually did it by accident as most right minded people acknowledged - and he apologised straight away). Dalglish repaid 'the compliment' next L'pool-United game. The big difference, I suppose, was that Haaland was a prick about the incident with Keane.
 
davek said:
I'd concede that was the chilling part of the incident. It reminds me of the way in which Dalglish targetted Kevin Moran after he got back from the cheekbone injury he received off the United man (who actually did it by accident as most right minded people acknowledged - and he apologised straight away). Dalglish repaid 'the compliment' next L'pool-United game. The big difference, I suppose, was that Haaland was a prick about the incident with Keane.
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"And don't ever stand over me sneering about fake injuries. Even in the dressing room afterwards, I had no remorse. My attitude was, f*** him."

"As Keane lay prone on the ground, Håland criticised Keane for the horrendous nature of the tackle and suggested that he was feigning injury to avoid punishment."

That is a [Poor language removed] thing to do and i hate it when players do it but Haaland wasn't the first to do it and i very much doubt he will be the last. Really pisses me off when players genuinely do get injured and you see oppistion players shouting [Poor language removed] at them when they are on the ground.

But i guess its just heat of the moment stuff. Did Haaland ever apologise to Keane for that before Keanes attack?

Still doesn't justify it mind you, even if he was a prick.
 
With TX Bill and Scottoffee on this one Hiddink otherwise Wenger

Seriously with our current cash situation we need someone with a good scouting network in Europe or South America, better yet both, we have to get onto these kids before they become the next best thing. Then take them and mould them into the team making both them and us a better all round unit.

Wenger and Hiddink have shown they can both do this, at least sa well as Moyes, so would be good replacements.
 
I think Hiddink would only be good with a crap team to start with. His main focus is on fitness I reckon. Get them fitter then the opposition so they can dominate the late session of the game and steal a win.
 

I think you have forgotten all the stuff that went on. How he was seemingly holidaying in Croatia for months etc. Didn't he also manage a national team match in-between being injured?
 

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