Roy Keane

[Dawsey]

My mate at college reckons that we turned down Roy Keane when he was a lad. I don't remember reading anything about that, so is he right?

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

yes we did

 

[Braders]

yep , true

 

[Dawsey]

f***. Close this thread before he sees it

 

[Cian]

Because he was too violent, apparently....

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

i thought it was because he was to small?

 

[Pevenseagull]

He was even more of a headcase when he was a kid - when he went to Forest he was put in digs. Within a week his landlady informed the club that she thought he was disturbed. He hadn't spoken a word and had painted the walls and ceiling of his room black.

 

[chez]

It was because we were offered one player by his team Cobh Ramblers at the time and we went for his team mate "Paul McCarthy" instead.

 

[C1 BHA]

Now there's a replacement for DC !

D'ya think Santa might be able to pull this one out of the bag?

 

[Kev the Ape]

It was true, and we did have martin Keown.

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

We were offered three Irish lads, could only afford 2, so we kept Paul McCarthy and Derek McGrath, and Keane stayed in Ireland.

 

[Kev the Ape]

who was the chairmen at the time.

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

Greg Stanley?

 

[Cian]

Stanley, or the previous mash up that I never managed to understand

 

[Hydro Driven]

HA HA Dawsey NEVER doubt me, i think u should ave 2 do all my coursework over X-mas 4 that.....



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[dunno]

yep and we turned down Ian Wright

 

[Digweeds Trousers]

And Lothar Mattheus.

Fact.

 

[Skaville]

Keown was only on loan from Arsenal. I remember him doing an Adam Virgo, playing up front against Chalton in the 5-3 home defeat in the mid eighties.