In defence of Robbie Keane

A BIT like the man himself, I was guilty of a bad miss the other night, only catching up with RTÉ’s Champions League coverage from Madrid when the Atletico-Liverpool match was all over and the panel were already in gloves and masks performing what looked like a pretty grisly post-mortem on Robbie Keane.

At that point, I had no idea of what Robbie’s crime was but it was clear enough that it was something pretty horrendous.

As ever, the Dunph had his nose highest in the air to escape the pong. What Ireland’s skipper had done was “stupid and unprofessional”. It was “a capital offence, a mortal sin.”