SHUT IT

Last updated : 23 July 2003 By Editor
Brian Clough reckons that Keano is finished. Perhaps it about time he stopped serialising autobiographies and looked in the mirror. This from the Daily Mail.

"I think Roy Keane's career is over - at least the part that made him such an influential figure at the centre of the Manchester United team,"

"If he is to have a future as a player with Manchester United, perhaps for another couple of seasons, then he has to move back and take a defensive role in the side."

"His reputation is built on certain qualities - his ability to seek and cope with non-stop action, his ability to pass a ball, which he is doing better than ever, his all-round aggression and, of course, the fierce tackle. But he is in his thirties and has had the injuries that all players like him have to endure. It's like an old car, although I don't suppose he's ever had one. The older it gets the slower it gets and little parts wear out.

"Going to the back should give him two more seasons. Keane will be best suited as a sweeper, like Mackay. I'd bet that, if he feels the slightest physical twinges this season, he won't wait for Fergie to ask him to play at the back - he'll volunteer. He'll see a whole new picture and it will be a doddle for him.

"He doesn't want his career to end. None of us did, but some of is had to come to terms with it before our time."