That changes everything! KEANO!

well Delaney is definately Irish, who the f..k would want to fight to play in this lame sorry ar.e ipswich team with a complete waster as a manger?

KEANO OUT !!! KEANO OUT !!! KEANO OUT !!! KEANO OUT !!! KEANO OUT !!! KEANO OUT !!! KEANO OUT !!! KEANO OUT !!! KEANO OUT !!! KEANO OUT !!!

HaHa in your face news commenters.... MORE press garbage.

There's only one Keanooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Again because it Keane
he is having a fight with everyone. it would be nice if the paper's consentrated on football for a change, but then that would not sell newspapers, look at the damage they did to our world cup bid

It would not matter which team he managed it would be the same

'I don't have bust ups'. Haha pull the other one Beano you clown. And also, take a stroll long enough for Marcus to get a call through to Curbs.

I love reading these quotes about Keano by Dwight Yorke !!!!

Keane walked out on Sunderland on December 4 last year with the club in a desperate fight to avoid relegation from the Premier League.

There were rumours of huge bust-ups in the club and Yorke recalls how Keane completely lost the plot during one explosive foul-mouthed dressing-room rant in which he:

SMASHED a tactics board with a kung-fu kick.

SLAPPED skipper Dean Whitehead round the head.

SCREAMED at all the shocked players: "I can't trust any of you."

Sunderland were losing 1-0 to then League One side Northampton in a Carling Cup tie in September last year.

And in his new autobigraphy, Born To Score, Yorke says: "The manager's darkening mood was made only too clear on an ominous night for his regime. There were the first signs of tension between Keano and the Sunderland supporters. But that was nothing compared to the eruption we witnessed at half-time. We knew we were in for a tongue-lashing. We waited for the fireworks. Keano emerged from the washroom, quietly, calmly.

"He asked our kit manager if he can get the tactics board. 'Sure, boss, it's over here.'

"The board goes up. And Keano takes a running jump and smashes it over with a kung-fu kick. He screamed at Danny Collins: 'Never come to me and ask for a contract again.' And then the captain, Dean Whitehead, is next. 'Captain? Captain? Some f***in' captain you are,' he rages, slapping Dean about the head in the process, before turning on us all. 'I can't trust any of you!'

"No one knew Keano's moods better than me and I sensed his regime was heading for a point of no return."

Sunderland scraped through 4-3 on penalties after salavaging a 2-2 draw.

The following month Keane produced another explosive dressing-room rant as his side trooped off at half-time following a goalless first-half at Stoke. "That didn't prevent a furious reaction from the manager," explains Yorke. "Keano once again delivered a kung-fu kick on the tactics board which sent it crashing. He launched into a tirade at the team that began with his telling me that I was being substituted.

"I took the decision on the chin. We lost 1-0, which did nothing to improve his temper and I later learned he was unhappy with me because I had not reacted to his decision to substitute me.

"When I got the chance to speak to him, I told him my view. 'We still had 45 minutes to play and I didn't want to bring the dressing room down any more than it already was,' I argued. 'The players needed encouraging, not slaughtering.'

"I stick by that; ranting at the players made no sense when there was still half a game to go.

"Two days later, Keano said to me: 'Listen, Yorkie. You've been great for me. But I've had enough of you. And as a manager I've got to make a decision. I no longer want you to train with us.' I was banished to the reserves.

"Five minutes before that showdown, a first-team meeting had been arranged downstairs and, gloomily, I made my way there.

"Arriving at the same door from the opposite direction was Keano. He stopped me in the corridor. 'No no, Yorkie, you're not in this meeting,' he said. 'You're outside with the reserves.'

"I have no doubt that, had I actually got to the meeting before him, he would have frogmarched me out in front of the whole squad.

"After that, the atmosphere around the club plummeted still further. For three, sometimes four days a week, we would see no sign of Keano and not too many players were disappointed when there was no sign of his car in the mornings.

"The dressing room started to get disconnected, splitting into little cliques and groups of self-interest.

"Paranoia rampaged through the club, players were at each other's throats and fighting one another; it was disintegrating before our very eyes.

"For the next five weeks it was like this and the results inevitably crumbled still further. And then, suddenly, I got a call from our elusive manager, who had not spoken to me since I was banished from the meeting.

"'Yorkie, I know things haven't been great between us but I just want to know if you're on board with me,' said Keano.

"I was so stunned to receive the call, never mind the question, that I couldn't think of an answer.

"Instead, I said I would pop in and discuss it with him the following day.

"Twenty minutes later I got a text from him: 'Don't bother - I think I've got my answer.' It would have been easy for me to tell him I was on board. I guess that was what he wanted. I'm sorry I couldn't do that.

"I'm not saying I would not have thrown my support behind Keano eventually; such is the immense respect I had for him as my leader then I probably would have. But we needed to talk first.

"By now I was convinced that club management was not for Keano.

"I don't think the 24/7 care of a club manager is suited to his temperament. I don't think he can deal with everything that lands in the tray of a club man. But his standing in the game is such that he could still take a group of players and get a positive reaction from them for a couple of games - and then march off and walk his dogs for a month or two.

"I think he is an impact manager, which is why I believe he could be ideal for the international stage."

But Yorke says: "Keano is very much his own man. His aura and personality are what make him such a big force in the game; they provoked a kind of fear in playing for him, a fear if you did not come up to scratch."

Their relationship had been so different when Keane called Yorke to beg him to sign for him.

Keane had just been appointed the Black Cats manager when Yorke's phone rang. "'Hello, how ya' doing, Yorkie?' said the distinctive tones at the other end of the line.

"'I want you to come and play for us,' Keano said. 'I'll look after you. I won't mess you around. No bulls***. I'm not going to bring you back and not play you.' He persisted, stressing my help was needed to 'sort out the dressing room' and get some old United qualities in there.

"He kept calling, saying: 'Yorkie, come on, I really need you here' and dangling the bait of a £15,000-a-week, two-year contract.

"He even invited me to call him Roy but I declined. He was the gaffer - I had too much respect for him to take liberties. Keano and I had been great team-mates at United and had socialised - but we were never buddy-buddy.

"However, it was Keano I came back to England for. It was only my old skipper who could drag me out of Sydney. Our success over the first two years, winning promotion and then keeping the team in the Premier League, were of great credit to him.

"The intensity which drove the team to those successes, however, never let up and, I think, ultimately, doomed Keano's managership. Even when we had secured promotion at the end of my first season, he wasn't satisfied. He wanted the title.

"He warned players he would not settle for anyone taking their foot off the pedal. It was leadership by inspiring fear.

"Keano had days when he would join in with the five-a-sides and any player on his team who misplaced a pass or miscontrolled the ball would be subjected to a stream of vicious lecturing or abuse.

"It reached the stage where nobody wanted to be on the same side as him.

"'Gaffer,' I said to Keano, 'you're scaring the s*** out of the players.'

"However, a general can only lead his troops this way for so long. The players began moaning about him. It was difficult for him to accept that he was not in a top-flight team that did not win the majority of its games - all that he had known at United. And when Keano left there was a sense of relief he had gone."

I thought John Duncan was our worst manager......oh how wrong I was.

yet more publicity for the owner........ i do wonder where these rumours start

Business , Business , Business , Olympics , Tickets , Hospitality , Ireland Olympic Association ... Oh and yes there is a Football team somewhere in my business 'empire' ...Publicity great , keane out - lets feed the media - It is how the game works !! SUCKS

whoppit why stop there, type out the rest of the book?

whoppit.

So Dwight Yorke is a reliable source now is he? No axe to grind with Keane? No reason to spice up an otherwise dull auto-biography?
Simply writing "we were a bit crap and lost some games" doesn't sell books does it, but playing up to Keane's pantomine bad guy image seems to work.

Bluebob

I don't care if it's true or not to be honest. However, it makes fascinating reading and you wouldn't bet against Keane doing any of that stuff. And what about what Walters said? The ex-Sunderland players at Stoke asked Walters "What have you done". I am sure more stories will come out once Keane gets the boot.

Whoppit, I enjoyed reading your post, quite an insight, I accept that Yorke may have a bit of an axe to grind, but doesn't it just show the similarites, in his temperment.

the Circus is in town

Still no reasons given for him being dropped right out of the squad, having been harshly sent off and having put the side into the lead with a goal.

Delaney is limiting his statement to there being no fight. Still might have had 'some words' with RK

He has definitely been punished for something IMO

It's remarkable that so many people are ready to 'jump' on to Roy at any opportunity. The club, Delaney, Roy and everyone else has said there was NO FIGHT. So unless anyone has any proof otherwise, suggest you accept it and move on.

Delaney was dropped after his poor showing at Norwich and rightly so. Brown came in and did an excellent job agaisnt WBA and deserved to keep his place. If Roy had have dropped Brown many on here would have slated him for that!! End of story.

he's not the only player with his head down

What a shame Double D didnt land him flat on his arse!!!!! F**k off keano we all hate you

I dont have a problem with Brown playing, but delaney should be playing even after a 1 game or one incident blip.
Smith isnt very good and is left footed. it should be brown+ delaney to give right and left foot balance until mc A gets back. Delaney was on the right when holt caught him out and it was unfortunate but doesnt warrant the dunces hat

jas0099 poor showing at Norwich??? He scored a goal and was sent off rather harshly for a foul near the halfway line. OK I agree that he dally on the ball before committing a foul.

If all the players who had a poor game at Norwich had been dropped from the squad we wouldn't have been able to put a team out for the next games.

No problem with Brown keeping his place. I would just like to know Keane's reasoning for dropping Delaney, right out of the squad?

Keane has to go.

Great news, the Irish want keano back.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2010/1214/1224285473486.html

To quote Roy himself, please god let it happen.

Fantastically ironic quote in there from Roy about the definition of stupidity.

I find it odd and frustrating how Roy CONSTANTLY uses the excuse of 'having to use young players' and how the interview always end with 'but we can't use this as an excuse' even though he just has. Having said that I can't understand how and why he then goes and drops delaney from the whole squad?! I can understand him not being in the starting 11 against Swansea, but not even on the bench? And then again at Preston not even on the bench, leaving Eastman as our back up!! He moans about not having enough experience and then goes and drops one of our most experienced players and our best centre back (bar McAuley). IMO it should be Delaney and Brown at the back, I think Brown has done well without being spectacular, and Delaney is our best. Smith was good at the start of the season but has dipped in form I think, evident with his shocker against Swansea and Brown and Delaney would balance it out with right foot and left (something Roy failed to think about before the norwich game, and it cost us).

Lol - for Roy Keane to say that about stupidity is.....stupid !

There may be a far more obvious reason for Delaney's exclusion at present. He is one of the players out of contract at the end of the season. The club may want to offload him in January, and SC has said they have their minds more or less made up on those they will be offering new contracts to.

There were some reports of a possible move pre season, which may have stalled because of his injury. It might also explain why there was another left footed CB brought in on loan, when Smith was already providing cover. For me Smith is not yet up to top championship level, and O'Dea is the best of the three.