Roy Keane tells FAI: 'What goes around comes around'
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Roy Keane had little sympathy for the Football Association of Ireland's campaign to have their controversial World Cup play-off against France replayed and said: "What goes around comes around."
The Ipswich manager's relationship with the FAI broke down following his walk-out from the Republic of Ireland training camp prior to the 2002 World Cup.
And he dismissed their calls for "the honesty and integrity" of the sport to be protected in the wake of Thierry Henry's handball which led to France's winner in Paris on Wednesday night.
He told a press conference broadcast by Sky Sports News: "I think the supporters deserve better, the manager (Giovanni Trapattoni) deserves better and probably most of the players deserve better, but I'm not sure the FAI deserve better.
"What goes around comes around."
Keane pointed out that controversial decisions also went Ireland's way in the qualifying campaign, not least a harsh penalty award against Georgia which helped them to claim a 2-1 qualifying win in February.
He added: "Ireland had their chances in the two games (against France), and they never took them. But it's the usual FAI reaction - 'we've been robbed, the honesty of the game...'
"There was one match against Georgia where Ireland got a penalty and it was one of the worst decisions I've ever seen which changed the whole course of the game.
"I don't remember the FAI after the game saying we should give them a replay."
Talking specifically about France's winner, Keane laid the blame on Ireland's defence rather than Henry, who handled the ball before crossing for William Gallas to head in.
"I'd focus on why they didn't clear it," he said.
"I'd be more annoyed with my defenders and my goalkeeper than Thierry Henry. How can you let the ball bounce in your six-yard box? How can you let Thierry Henry get goal-side of you?
"If the ball goes into the six-yard box, where the hell is my goalkeeper?"
Keane's antipathy towards the FAI stems back to the Pacific island of Saipan seven years ago when he left the team's pre-World Cup training camp, complaining that the facilities were sub-standard.
"People seem to forget what was going on in that World Cup, and that man (FAI chief executive John Delaney) is on about honesty. I was one of the players and he didn't have the courtesy to ring me," he said.
"I'd been involved with Ireland since I was 15 years of age and that man didn't have the decency to make a phone call. He could have phoned me, of course he could have."
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THIERRY HENRY acted on a normal instinct, as suggested by DAMIEN DUFF who admitted to having the same instinct. so for consistency's sake, have all of IRELAND beat DAMIEN DUFF to a pulp. after all, honesty does not require an incidence. DUFF's admission is theft and cheat enough.
take violence out of the game! and since misplaced honour codes and false pride are the two worst causes of violence, let's focus on them.
Can I have some examples please. as I'v been watching Ireland for 30 years and I can't recall which times you are talking about.
Which games have we won by cheating exactly?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9fx4ip
no need to explain myself beyond stating the obvious:
cheating by any current standard, implicit in the commentaries of JAMES LAWTON above all (see his piece on EDUARDO, elegantly dodging the issue of WAYNE ROONEY twice diving to cheat ARSENAL (who in turn have PIRES and EBOUE in their register of sinners...)), but also byTONY CASCARINO et al, inheres the game of football...
yes: inheres.
that's how far we've come, thanks to paranoid reporting and tedious managers, spilling their bladder on all and sundry...
we all cheat in some sense and we therefore miss the point when we focus on an isolated incident to the detriment of the larger issue of how we, for basic survival skills, are to relate to an imperfect world in which a football match must not be allowed to matter more than a football match warrants.
coming from a lutheran background and therefore raised to value honesty and integrity and not having learnt to cheat, i must admit that a little bit of cheating can really be a good thing. and the problem with you irish catholic lot is not that you believe too seriously in GOD 'cause you evidently do not!, but that you believe in guilt. the french are just better catholics in that they believe in neither.
moral of the story: when your neighbour's pretty thing gives you a peck on the cheek, ENJOY IT!
LIVERPOOL cheat, CHELSEA cheat, ARSENAL cheat, SPURS cheat,.............
Once again the obsession with the current Champions of England rears its pitiful head.
You're yet another Manchester United obsessed cunt along with numerous other envy filled nobheads who post deluded. ill informed, subjective opinions on here.
Look, it's not anyone's fault but your own that you don't have the privelige of supporting the worlds' most glamourous football club so quit slagging them off and reserve your comments for which ever poxy outfit you support.
Ye and we still only lost to spain on penalties, no thanks to you and your ego.
The other players coped because they were not so self important.
I know the FAI is an awful organisation but it's all we have and you didn't solve anything did you Roy.
You should have Christmas dinner with Stephen Ireland this year, you were made for each other.
Both from Cork, both ignorant and both arrogant, with grudges to beat the band.
But seriously..... Ho ho ho, have observations on how defenders should do their jobs do we?? Tell me Roy, how are you getting on with Ipswich? (no disrespect meant to ipswich fans here, Im genuinely sorry in advance if you take offence) For a team thats second from bottom, 6 defeats and 28 goals against this season I dont think you get the right to question defenders from your armchair
Henry has come out and suggested a replay, Robbie Keane has thanked him for his honesty. Now being realistic, a replay is never going to happen and Irish fans will ultimately get on with it (despite how shitty henry was, and the ref, and fifa with the seeding) and be over it, depending on the individual, will be over it somewhere between yesterday and the time the euro qualifiers kick off......But not you Roy, saipan was 7 years ago and you're still having a go at the fai, get over it. We all know theyre a shower of glorified muppets masquerading as a football organisation.....But we get on with it. You have do the same
jazzfandango: shove your religious assesment up your arse....wtf? honestly
You walked out on your country remember because the balls weren't pumped up hard enough...in a world cup...
You are a disgrace....