Robbie answers his critics
So you can be sure that Robbie Keane won’t be making light of the fact that, with just a single medal (for the 2008 League Cup) to show for a long career traversing the high lands of English, Scottish and European club football, he finally added a second last week when he helped LA Galaxy to their MLS Cup final win over Houston Dynamo.
There was no goal in that game for Keane, though he did have a legitimate effort wrongly ruled out for offside. But his role in Landon Donovan’s winner was crucial, the Irish skipper picking up a pass from David Beckham, improvising neatly to beat his marker and then, with the opposition anticipating a shot from just outside the box, playing a reverse pass which put Donovan through on goal to dink one over the Houston ‘keeper Tally Hall..
