Roy Keane totally put his old teammate on blast today when he started running his mouth about Mark Hughes being fired from Manchester City. Like the title says…I just love it when people say how much they hate someone else. For example…I HATE Shaq…HATE him (and I’m a Lakers fan) but I hate his guts. I really do.
So, when Roy Keane says of Hughes and City:
“I think when you’re involved with a club like United, as Sparky was over his career, you shouldn’t go to a club like City. I think you should try and get employment somewhere else. I think Sparky is probably better off.”
Did anybody else see that little tidbit? …a club LIKE City? When you say something like that you’re usually telling your son not to date “a girl like that” or your daughter to not date a “boy like that” or you tell your kids not to hang out with kids “like that”. WOW! Then he goes on to say he would :get employment somewhere else.” DANG! So, basically what Roy Keane is saying is “I’d starve before I work for trash like Manchester City.” I LOVE THIS!
I wish he would have come out and said it full-frontal like “That garbage at Manchester City they call a football club isn’t worth spitting on” or something like that. (However, he’s more tasteful than I am.)
Personally, I have no dog in the fight. I’m American (in case you couldn’t tell) and my adopted dog is Chelsea (and I harbor no ill will towards Man U.) So, what do we make of this? Well, two things:
1) There is still some honor in English Soccer. It’s much like Jackie Robinson saying that he would die before he played for the Giants (Brooklyn’s cross-town rival.) That’s honor. He doesn’t want the money…he wants to play for a club with which he shares the same principles and which he bled for.
2) This era is otherwise dead in sports. Look at Real Madrid with their roster of all superstars. Look at the New York Yankees with a $250 million payroll. Look at the exorbitant transfer fees for every soccer player you can think of. There is no honor left in sports (even Soccer) except that which is harbored by the previous generation (and by the time guys like Hughes and Keane are old-timers no one will ever dream of “not playing for a team just because of who they are.” Those days are gone-by…oh well. C’est la vie!
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