OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy. He casts his eye over your comments and gives his own critical analysis of the goings on throughout the world of football. You may agrewith him or then again you may not. This week Roy Keane is right we are mentally brittle; Irish fans are hypocrites over Keane’s tackle on Overmars; French Revolution all over again; FIFA are not interested in technology; Henry should be banned for World Cup; Delaney foolish to respond to Keane; Rugby fans take moral high ground; What goes around comes around; Arsenal not physical enough; Moyes is boring; Pool have fallen a long way.
The Letter of the Week goes to Simon Clarke, Dublin. Get in touch with your postal address and our magnificent prize will be winging its way to you before you know it.
SOMEONE’S got to say it, so I am going to. Roy Keane is entirely right with his comments on Ireland’s performance in the two matches against France. It is typical of him to rake up 2002 again, but that doesn’t change the validity of his analysis of how we performed in Dublin and Paris. Too conservative at home, it was only when we needed to attack that we demonstrated we could get at the French who are mentally brittle. We had at least four good chances to put the game beyond doubt on Wednesday night and squandered them. We didn’t defend the free-kick at all well, never mind the handball and the offside. The only part of Keane’s comments that really jarred was his implied criticism of Shay Given. Is it a Cork/Donegal thing?
Tony Murphy, Cork, by email
YOU might think that Roy Keane would have more to say about one win in 17 games for Ipswich than he has about dancing on the grave of Ireland’s World Cup ambitions.
a d v e r t i s e m e n t
This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Tuesday, November 24, 2009
