A fair bit of this post is ripped from my comment on For Girls Who Can’t Do Football, which is worth a read. The original post dared to compare him to Keegan in that he’s walked out on us a couple of times. Cue rant:
Laughing at the mackems is easy, but doubly so when it also gives one the chance to take the piss out of Roy “cheating thug” Keane.
Frankly I loved the way Keane walked out on his national squad a few years ago… a squad which then got further through the World Cup than at any other competition in living memory. And not just without him, but a man short as he’d gone in his little pathetic sulk too late for them to replace him.
As for walking out on the team, let’s face it – he was either going to get sacked or be asked to leave by his little bum-chum in the boardroom anyway. There’s no comparison with Keegan. At what point did Keane ever have the mackem filth top of the table? In the Champion’s League? Beating ManUre 5-0?
Keegan is a good manager, though I admit not the best in the world. The two times he’s left Newcastle it’s been because of issues with the board, funding and so on – not because the team was in the crap.
Obviously, given that he hasn’t got a clue and seems to manage purely by shouting at people I’m sad to see him go – as the filth will likely only have an improvement in their next manager and that’s the last thing I want.
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I’d rather laugh at them more if they go down having bought in Big Fat Sam.
toon wtill can’t hold onto a lead though
Apparently ‘Monkey’s Heid” is sticking his trotter in the trough as well. After drinking champagne with the head honchos and laughing his way to the bank when he “left of mutual accord” last time.
At last, someone who’s a bigger laughing stock than us.
Keane – good player, horrid horrid man. I don’t have anything against Sunderland though, so feel a bit sorry for them actually.
Watch it Weenie – with heretic talk like that you could find yourself banned from this website…
Hey I said I felt sorry for them, I don’t support them or anything! Toon are my favourite northeast side – have a soft spot for KK (ok he’s not there any more but you know what I mean), plus Michael Owen is still class! 🙂
You’re not allowed to feel sorry for them. It’s like feeling sorry for chavs or gypsies. Or those people in Deliverance who have sex with their own immediate family.
I’m annoyed at KK leaving mainly as it reduces my chances of meeting him and getting another tattoo!
There’s a reason it’s called “Mordor-On-Wear”.
I wish I was rich enough to buy one of those islands on The World in Dubai. I’d buy the UK and put my toilet over sunderland.