PeterF wrote:Niall Shaky wrote:Roy Keane is a great player and a total nutter (I wish he played for Liverpool).
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Roy Keane is Not a Great Player..he has talent.. but a "Great Player" would not make so many stupid un - neccasary, and in this case un provoked, nasty physical attacks on other players with the nett result that he gets sent off "yet again" and his team has to try an win without the benifit of his talents.
But he's one of the main reasons why Man U have won so many championships in the last 10 years. That makes him the most importat player of the last 10 years, in England at least.
He's a truly driven individual. The only other players you can compare him with might be Viera at Arsenal or Gerrard at Liverpool. But although they share his style of play to a certain extent (and they're both more skillful) they don't have the leadership qualities and single-minded ambition that he has. He not only contributes with his own game, he demands that those around him play to their best. He's a winner. Pure and simple.
You have to look back to somebody like Souness or abroad to somebody like Luis Enrique (sadly well past his peak) or Hakan Sas to find somebody as eye-ball poppingly obsessed about winning.
So love him or loathe him (and being a Liverpool fan I loathe him) you have to admire him.
I wish Liverpool had someone with his level of commitment and authority right now.
Bill Shankly would've loved Roy Keane.