Former Manchester United captain Roy Keane delivers a brilliant story about Sir Alex Ferguson's managerial ability, with how he used to deal with Eric Cantona! This is from our #CadburyFC show with Cadbury Ireland!
@Darius Beaumont A good heart? lol, ok. There's plenty that would disagree with that. Roy spends most of his time these days gossiping and back-stabbing like an old woman.
@@dios.9586 he has the finest of legs. Some say Zeus himself carved them from granite and placed them upon his body in a beautiful ceremony atop of Mount Olympus.
@@abdulfattah4276 I mean if you look at Luis Vuitton, you'll understand what I mean lol. I never thought the french were fashionable, but that they just wanted to stand out wearing crazy things. Unique is fashion apparently.
Fergie created Roy....in terms of Roy idolising Fergies absolute desire and obsession to win - you even heard Gary say they were mirrors of each other - so Fergie became Roy's football father...and then instead of letting him go softly as he was coming to the end of his career - he shanked him - and tried to get the Manchester crowd on his side by leaking lies to the press about Roy...but the fans were too smart for Fergie and too loyal to their greatest captain of all time...So as much as Roy despises Fergie for what he did during the last 6 months of his Utd career - he'll still always love him for the previous 12 years - its a kinda like a Luke Skywalker / Darth Vader thing...
@@destinykiller1975 nah. They went out of the fa cup against us, the lost the last 2-3 games against us. They're broke, with worse owners, and we are building a far more exciting project. Their main striker might as well leave them. Lol spurshite will keep up with an empty trophy cabinet
man, I really wished Fergie and Roy would bury the hatchet. Roy should have an statue outside OT, thats the honest truth, hes the most influential player this club has ever had, Best, sir bobby, robbo included. True united fans got heartbroken when they saw the treble team anniversary without Keano, that was an abomination
@@victorformosa2825, 100%, an absolute colossus, that demanded and played at the very top of his game, An ic0nic Midfielder (hold, pass, run), as good as any in Europe when he Played......Up the Chels...
Newcastle fan here. That United team of around 1998-2000 was so great. Never down and out always had a goal in them and a never say die attitude. One of my favourite football teams of all time and Roy Keane would walk into any 11 I’d ever pick. Professional, commited and always did the job. He’s not very diplomatic but I have massive respect for him. It’d definitely make you a better player to play with him. If you were having a lapse in concentration and commitment you’d look over at him and slap yourself back into focus.
The thing that used to always'd impressed me about him was that under moments of stress and during high pressure games or games with high pressure moments. How he could nearly always control every pass given in to him at speed because of the opposition attack. And then play it simply, calming the tempo of the game down to build their own attack. Or, at will pull a whole team of players forward by determination and example to make a difference. Captain's don't get much better.
@@alexindy3504 Lot's of Roy's comments can be seen as unacceptable but so was your comment calling him "a band average player." Two wrongs don't make a right.
@@alexindy3504 You never have seen Keane play. I am a liverpool fan but Keane and Vieira were two of the greatest midfielders of the last 28 years of the premier league.
I really like Roy when he’s not bitter. He is a big man, but sometimes becomes consumed by perceived, past injustices. Guess, we all do & this guy is only human too. Best wishes to him. He was a real force of nature🙌👊👌
Eric changed it all for United, on the pitch he was magical and made things click, off the pitch, the rebel in him made the club popular throughout the world even though Serie A was the Best League then..
Very good point. Eric was the catalyst. he was such a skilful, stylish, classy player head and shoulders above everyone else. Beckham, Giggs, Scholes and co would watch him train and be in awe of him. He was their hero. I remember watching Eric at a beach football event years after he retired and he was head and shoulders above everyone else even then in terms of skill. During the event a group of United fans were constantly singing his name. At the end Eric received man of the match and a big crate of nice champagne. What did he do? He ran across and gave it to the group who were singing his name...That's Eric for you. Coolness personified.
@@GordonCaledonia I agree all the maverick tendencies get coached out of them these days. Haaland if started his career 10-15 years ago could defo be an Eric. He has that slightly crazy look in his eyes. Obv Eric was better dribbler and passer than Haaland I’m just talking character here
@@DonFelixGallardo Norwegians aren't that crazy. You still see some crazy stuff in the Italian league, but the red cards just get dished out. Gattuso would be banned all the time now. Cantona was actually a fair player, not that dirty, people remember the hooligan getting kicked, but Eric let his skills do the talking. But he was so eccentric that today people would think he was mentally ill, but he was just French! Just Eric!
If Roy criticised or brutally exposed my wrong decisions, I wouldn't feel offended, instead I'd shake his hands! His monologue deliverance is unmatched and makes you want to listen all day!
Even more was the team that won the first Premier League. Cantona, Hughes, Brian Robson, Giggs, Kanchelskis (MASSIVELY underrated), Ince, Pallister, Bruce, etc The team was full of leaders and men made of steel, and was a RIDICULOUSLY fast team. Watch United tearing apart Norwich in the 92/93 season. Search for this on RU-vid: "Norwich City 1-3 Manchester United (92/93) | Premier League Classics | Manchester United"
Keane was the natural successor to Cantona both being very driven players with excellent standards. But my heart is still in Scholes - what a phenomenal player England is yet to reproduce.
Love listening to Roy. Always talks about the strength of character and work ethic. Very simple but sadly lacking in many players today. That is what makes winners.
1988 I was taking a flight from East Midlands to either Dublin or Shannon, can’t remember. Knew nothing at all about football although I lived with a stone’s throw of the Forest grounds. Tiny propellor plane, seats down one side, luggage on the other. A pleasant young man took the seat beside me, back row. He was wearing a tracksuit and was had a signed football in his lap. We had a pleasant few words, didn’t talk football then so it was never mentioned. Throughout the flight I realised on this small flight that everyone was craning their necks to look at our seat. As we got off a woman rushed to me and asked it I was his mother? What! I was 35! Absolutely not I answered, probably looking furious.She rushed off as if afraid I was going hit her😂. The following day I saw an article about Roy Keane in the Irish Independent. That’s Roy Keane!!!!!! That’s the most I know of RK. He was a lovely young man in 1988 and I think that he has done quite well for himself in the meantime. Worthy of note, he didn’t even mention that he was from Cork!
Every team needs a Roy Keane. I'm an OK average standard player but I'm a bit lazy and play my best football when I have someone in the team shouting at me. Every team needs an angry RK making sure players are fighting for every ball at the top level.
Love Roy or hate him he talks a lot of sense.He tells you as it is..He was a great leader on the pitch (Not a Man. United fan)..He played for the shirt, and gave 100%..He expected the other players around him to give the same, if not he would soon let them know..Hes had his moments over his playing days, but remember, hes not the only one..
He might be a bit contrarian at times but Roy and whoever was the current hotness were always my favourite players. He was special, you loved him if you were a United fan and everyone hated him, he was our captain
Keane is right about coaches like Ferguson and Clough. Ya, you need decent players but it’s all about man management. The best teams had coaches that weren’t too technical (the delegated that), but they made sure they understood every player and had a locker room full of leaders
We lost a game and I went in the dressing room first and Roy Keane was second. I liked to go first after the game. I didn't want to speak to anyone as we lost.. I didn't understand English, just the bad words. I heard my name and 'f*** off' by Roy Keane, the best player. "I knew that was bad so I stood up to him, this idol of Manchester, this great guy who everyone loved, and replied: 'F*** off, you'. I don’t remember what happened next"Gabriel Heinze.. Keane knockout Gabriel Heinze for real..
Would love it if SAF and Roy Keane could just make amends. I know it's unlikely, and they're both grown men with their own lives. But they both brought the best out in each other and gave us some of football's greatest ever moments. None of us know who was right and who was wrong. But if one of them could put pride to one side and extend an olive branch. Oh, the joy that would bring to us United fans...
@maureenlansley671 Super Saf the tech review guy. He and Roy Keane forged a formidable legacy with United in the 90s. He then went on to review tech products.
The second half it’s a hell of a book it inspired me In the end, the last chapter of the book he says that he gets stock on the train to Philadelphia instead of getting off in New York once he managed to comeback to New York all his team mate waiting at the station for him were singing... I won’t say... read the book
Me to will never forgive him for what he did to Alfie Harrland but as a pundit on sky sports and now with Micah Richards warming to the guy abit but it’s still there 🔵🔵🔵
@David Clinging so after all that you didnt name another option! I dont believe that Keane was "one of the best ever" but thats not what you need from your captain. He is an extension of the manager on the pitch and Keane was the perfect example of that for Fergie. He was more than a hard tackler, you obviously dont understand how important controlling the tempo of a match is through the style and speed of passing. Doing the simple things consistently is not simple in itself. Also leave Scholes out of it there's nothing romanticised about saying he was one the best midfielders ever. He has been lauded as such by some of the greatest players to ever kick a ball...and they have no reason to heap such praise unless they believe it's true. Go and ask the coaches at La Masia why they use him as the template of a midfielder. You're making yourself sound delusional.
So this is who Morrissey was singing about in 1997...”dunking the chamois, just think of the goodwill...the ladder’s a planet, Roy is a star & I am a satellite but that’s alright”...cool. BTW...that was such an AWESOME Morrissey tour...went to 4 shows...Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, Chicago & Buffalo.
I think we can take a key factor and implement it through all sports Ferguson players management skills was top class, simply by getting to really know his players & by just finding a solution to make it work... I just feel his people skills were top notch, I feel to many coaches don’t know how to get their message across
Add Maradona in his prime to the Man Utd 21/22 team and they still struggle and are in as battle for top 4. Add Roy Keane to the Man Utd of today though and they become title challengers. He was that good a leader and exactly the player their 11 needs right now.
Honestly Fergusan's greatest achievement was probably the last Prem Cup he won with the team he had, more than half of them weren't what you typically call world class. It speaks a lot to the culture and winning mentality he bought into the team.
@@YouKevo He would if you were not hungry and wanted to go home early.Good player but nothing above that ...Fergie was right to bin him when he thought he was becoming manager of United which is a good job he never was.Poor poor manager.
I believe there conflict was fault on both sides. Both strong willed characters that had to be boss and they clashed. As much of a Utd fan I am I have to say that Ferguson let his ego get in the way, when it came to getting rid of brillant players! Basically Ferguson was like the vince McMahon of football managers you either had to get on with him and he had to be superior or you were gonna get the boot sooner or later.
So much Business Management skills can be learned from a good Football Manager. A good Manager can delegate, man manage, read his Players/Staff, know when to keep quiet or throw a Football Boot at someone!!!
A 100%... a manager manages players' temperament, mindset, culture and ethics. Like Keano said there, the great ones don't really coach or train players day to day... they leave that job to the coaches... so with respect to Ole, i honestly think people forget that he has got those top manager's qualities... I would argue that Pep, Tuchel, Bielsa they are all tactical coaches... Van Gaal is a good example of a great technical coaches but that is all they are... coaches... I would argue that Klopp amd Pochetino are coaches as well but they have a good balance of tactics and technics. Ole is a manager, he is never a coach. As long as the players buys into his idea, works their socks off for him and are always enjoying playing for him than that is more than good enough.
Roy has got the attitude that footballers had in the 1940s. Most of today's footballers are lazy, spoilt, soft, love themselves. Not what I called hard tough men.
yup and a lot are now mentally ill, alcoholics, depressed, homeless, unable to talk about their emotions. people are finally waking up about the fact that fake toughness is silly. i bet you that roy keane cried at home when he was at man utd.
His exit is the reason why MU haven’t been MU. We’ve never got a decent CM to fill his shoe. (We won the 2008 Champion league because of Hargreaves and Carrick in the middle). Although he’s never rated as the best footballer in the world, what he does is to make the players around him be the best of themselves on the pitch. It is not coincidental that MU downfall happens when either he is injured or absent.