Keane has final say in LA as Redknapp poised to snap up striker

It’s always been the case with Robbie Keane that, even after he’d blown Ireland’s goal scoring record to smithereens, there have been critics only too happy to accentuate the negatives of his career.

The latest example of a journalist getting on the wrong side of the Tallaght man came after an extra-time goal by Keane clinched the MLS Championship for LA Galaxy on Sunday, when one reporter at the post-match press conference insisted on bringing up a miss earlier in the game in which the striker might have been better advised to lay the ball off to team-mate Landon Donovan for what would have been a virtual tap-in.

To be fair to Keane, however, he leavened his exasperated response with a touch of humour and also an insight into what has made him such a prolific goal scorer wherever he has played.