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Keane: Scunthorpe Boss is Talking Rubbish Saturday, 13th Mar 2010 08:20
Boss Roy Keane has dismissed Scunthorpe manager Nigel Adkins’s claim that the Blues are still in with a chance of the play-offs as “rubbish” and accused the Iron boss of trying to play mind games with other managers on a weekly basis.
Keane said: “He’s talking rubbish. He’s playing a game, so when Scunthorpe come to Ipswich all the pressure’s on us because we ‘should be in the play-offs’. He’s talking nonsense. It’s stupid talk. He should look after his own team. Absolute rubbish.
“It’s just mind games. If he thinks I’m going to fall for that he's mistaken, people shouldn’t underestimate my own experiences in football. He plays that every week and it works for him with other clubs, but it won’t work against us.
“I don’t mind it the odd time and he can do it with other managers, but to try to do it with me, he’s kidding himself.”
The Blues boss says that contrary to Adkins’s comments, the sides find themselves in similar predicaments: “We’re down there the same as them, it’s not as if he’s going off to play Real Madrid. You can play that card too much and I think he’s played it one too many times, especially this weekend coming up.”
Overall though, Keane has been impressed with Adkins during his time in charge at Glanford Park: “He’s done a very good job there and I’ve said that in my programme notes.
“He’s done a brilliant job on the smallest budget in the Championship. They’ve always brought players in, then sold them on for decent money and he’s had to wheel and deal.”
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Adkins likes to stir the brown stuff..i remember his comments when Pablo was sent off at their place,about him spitting at a player and how their player Cork "was in tears"....All came to nothing in the end.
I've really never understood this business about "mind games." When it comes down to a specific match, what difference is it supposed to make? In this instance, will all our players really suddenly think, "OK, we are play-off material, so we can take it easy against this lot"? Who takes any serious notice of what an opposing manager says in these situations? Sir A., Wenger and Benitez (among others) all seem to think it's a necessary part of preparations to play these so-called games. They must have zero effect on a professional team. Pure nonsense!
Yes Roy,but given the right results ,this time next week we could technically be only 2 points off of the play-offs..you and the team should be focusing on that possibility..we could and should be more than capable of that.
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