My Roy Keane article for Sabotage Times

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Lucky Toma

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Hardest thing I've ever had to write. The editor told me they were doing a series called 'Grudging Respect' and asked if I can write something positive about Man U. I said no. I just couldnt do it.
So he asked me if there was a United player I'd always had a grudging respect for. I wanted to do Phil Neville (I could have just concentrated on his charity work and Everton captaincy) but no....it had to be Keane.

So here it is. If you want me to hand in my BM card and vacate the premises I will.

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Can't bring myself to read it sorry, not even to find out why you chose the vilest figure in their history and the one least deserving of any respect at all
 
Sorry mate not clicking on it!

Anything to do with that thug not interested!

That tackle on Halland was a utter disgrace and pre planned!

No respected one iota
 
can't read that but I hope you redeemed yourself by adding that any respect Keane was due was well and truly lost with that tackle, and admission, on Alfie !
 
Don't blame you lads. I've started with the Haaland disgrace and said he should have been imprisoned for his admission of a common assault that left a fellow human being crippled for life. Also said the United team at that time had the human qualities of the Ralph Feinnes character in Schindler's List.
Then I took a deep breath and wrote about how good a player he was. Feel like there's a stain on me that won't come off.
 
Lucky Toma said:
Hardest thing I've ever had to write. The editor told me they were doing a series called 'Grudging Respect' and asked if I can write something positive about Man U. I said no. I just couldnt do it.
So he asked me if there was a United player I'd always had a grudging respect for. I wanted to do Phil Neville (I could have just concentrated on his charity work and Everton captaincy) but no....it had to be Keane.

So here it is. If you want me to hand in my BM card and vacate the premises I will.

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Toma,yet another superb piece of realistic and at times funny,piss taking journalism and unfortunately I agree with your sentiments.
Had he been a City player we would have given him the same status as Nige gets now.
CITY FANS READ IT !!!
 
That must of been really hard to write.
It made my eyes bleed trying to read it. Think you may have crossed the line with the pele and maradona comment though he was never in their class at any stage of his playing career.
 
It was more of a naval gazing article about yourself, than Roy Keane?
 
They (Sabotage Times) have changed the titled to me 'paying my respects' to United and Keane. Cant get in touch with the editor. In short...ignore the title! I don't, nor will I ever, pay my f***ing respects to anything connected to those c***s.
'Grudging admiration' was the original title. That I could (reluctantly) live with.
 
One of the most enjoyable games I have attended in the last few seasons was when Sunderland came to Eastlands and that Gypo Keane was their manager.
He got dogs abuse from the whole City crowd every time he tried to venture from the dug out.
Never has an opposition player or manager more richly deserved the hounding he got that game.Hate the dirty red twat with a passion.
You have sullied the pages of Bluemoon with that article,Lucky Toma.
I bet that you wished that you had got on that plane now!!!!!
 
Great piece Toma. Some great prose in the first few paragraphs and as such I don't think you've crossed the line at all since you've voiced perfectly how we feel about him...


I am a lifelong City fan who has long held a begrudging respect for Roy Keane. There. I’ve said it. While that humiliating statement lingers in the air like a stale fart I’m going to scour myself with bleach, mutter numerous Hail Marys and flagellate myself in a hairshirt.

This was the man remember who savagely enacted a skewed revenge fantasy upon Alf-Inge Haaland in the Manchester derby, ending his career with a vicious knee-high stomp then showed no remorse whatsoever in his subsequent autobiography with these shocking words – ‘I’d waited long enough. I f-ing hit him hard. The ball was there (I think). Take that you ****. And don’t ever stand over me sneering about fake injuries’.

It was an admittance of common assault that crippled a fellow human being and deserved a prison sentence.

This is the man who epitomized everything loathsome and rank about Manchester United, particularly from that era when every player seemed to possess the human qualities of Amon Goethe in Schindler’s List. The dressing room back then was a cesspit of thuggish, arrogant, cheating, bullying, despicable individuals – stormtroopers with studs – and Keane was the uber-villain. At least with Gary Neville there was a certain comedy value in his inability to grow a fully formed moustache and his surly demeanour that was reminiscent of a Chuckle Brother who’d downed a bottle of whiskey. Keane’s mien, and all he represented, was always far more noxious and never anything less than serious, brooding psychosis. He was Ferguson’s bitter bile incarnate and as such my hatred knew no bounds. Seeing him on A Question Of Sport was as surreal as viewing Gary Glitter on I’m A Celebrity. Watching him walk Bouncer from Neighbours down Cheshire lanes after yet another fresh controversy would never fail to get my teeth grinding with vexation. Dog lover? Pah, even Hitler adored canines.
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Good work. Although you're obviously a proper media whore now having "had to write" it. Tut. Tut.

;-)
 
As always a very well -written and thoughful article. The subject matter must have been a difficult challenge for any human being with an ounce of decency to get his head around - let alone a massive Blue. Made even worse now apparently by his meglamaniac, Beaverbrook style fascist Editor changing his title!

My only issue with it is this. Stephen has actually mentioned the pikey coward in the same breath as Maradona; - now I appreciate we all see a different game but in reality as a player Keane was closer to Joey Barton than the second greatest who ever lived.

I fully intend to ridicule Toma about this part of his piece in every PM I send him from now on.
 
Haha cheers lads. You've been very fair considering I probably deserve a public flogging for this. The Maradona thing.....I just meant that any great team needs an 'engine' and Keane was one of the best in that capacity.
I often see an All-Time Greatest XI and think 'Well in reality that midfield would get bludgeoned when not in possession'. You always need someone to do the graft and dirty work.
Having said that....yeah, it was a slight exageration :)
 
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