Roy Keane - new assistant manager (CONFIRMED)

[Ron Manager]

Yes they would. The fact is players with that reputation such as Bremner,Giles and Hunter had the skills required. If they were playing now they would be fitter and would fit in with any top side. Especially Bremner and Giles. Vinnie Jones did not have more than basic skills but he could have played in the Championship where they like that type of footballer.

[QBVILLA]

I saw an interview with Ron 'Chopper' Harris a while back and he said that without doubt Andy Lochead was the hardest bloke he'd ever encountered on a football pitch. Keane had his moments  but in my opinion he was a fierce competitor rather than a dirty player. As a kid playing football it was drummed into me never to let your opponent know you've been hurt. Nowadays it is accepted as the norm for players to roll around like they are dying. For me Keane was a honest player who played right on the edge of the rules. I thought he was superb and would have loved to see him in a Villa shirt.

[Big Dick Edwards]

For me Keane was a honest player who played right on the edge of the rules.

A view not necessarily shared by Haaland, the Man City player Keane admitted deliberately seriously harming.

[Monty]

The problem with Keane is that the same thing which made him the player he was may also have been what drove him to such explosive acts of brutality from time to time. While I know I'm against the consensus on here (I think his technical deficiencies would have been shown up in, say, today's Premier League), there's no denying he had that intangible authority on the field, and sometimes that sort of atavistic drive also shows up sometimes in his savage lapses of decency, resulting in those disciplinary issues. You can't have the player without the problems.

He wouldn't be the only one - Rooney doesn't get sent off much any more, but he seems to have lost that tumultuous force which caused things like that volley against Newcastle. That is the goal of a furious man. Nor would it be restricted to 'Home Nations' players - Balotelli seems like a more adjusted person, but the bursts of idiocy came in equal doses with the bursts of genius, and now one seems to have declined with the other.

[not3bad]

That's got to be the most difficult poll I've seen in H & V!

[Toronto Villa]

The problem with Keane is that the same thing which made him the player he was may also have been what drove him to such explosive acts of brutality from time to time. While I know I'm against the consensus on here (I think his technical deficiencies would have been shown up in, say, today's Premier League), there's no denying he had that intangible authority on the field, and sometimes that sort of atavistic drive also shows up sometimes in his savage lapses of decency, resulting in those disciplinary issues. You can't have the player without the problems.

He wouldn't be the only one - Rooney doesn't get sent off much any more, but he seems to have lost that tumultuous force which caused things like that volley against Newcastle. That is the goal of a furious man. Nor would it be restricted to 'Home Nations' players - Balotelli seems like a more adjusted person, but the bursts of idiocy came in equal doses with the bursts of genius, and now one seems to have declined with the other.

Would McEnroe have been the genius that he was without having the occasional meltdown? Even a nice Tiger Woods is just boring. You want to see that fire and anger that sets them apart. I think some of them need it as part of who they are and are much less without it. Let's hope now that Keane is coach he can channel it better and I think he has alluded to it in recent interviews.

[adrenachrome]

Brum Mail

[ChicagoLion]

Brum Mail

Is he posing for the next Irish spot the ball competition?

[Jon Crofts]

'You see that wheelie bin over there, that's your house that is'

[supertom]

Brum Mail

"Listen up ye feckers! This is how you trap a football."
Keane then tossed the ball over to Nathan Baker only to see it rocket off Nathan's shin.

[Brian Taylor]

Stumbling between crisis and disaster..That's da Villa!

[Louzie0]

Brum Mail

R: I can't get this ball off my boot.

P: Hang on, I see a hairstyle in search of a challenge.

[Mister E]

Brum Mail

R:So, then I got Haaland's head under my studs like this ...

[ciggiesnbeer]

Brum Mail

Right, throw in training.

You feckers listen.

Once, just ONCE you do a foul throw and its your head under my foot, not this ball. Any questions?

[john e]

Good pic for all those who wanted to see Keane in a villa shirt
 just a bit to late