Roy Keane - new assistant manager (CONFIRMED)

[Rudy Can't Fail]

it's funny you should say that. Only last week I found myself in a great little French bistro in Leamington reading a little of Jean Baudrillard's poetry whilst waiting for my sole meuniere.

You are pauliewalnuts' secret lover and I claim my £10.

[mr underhill]

I am not a secret lover, I am a free man, and won't be stamped, filed, indexed briefed or debriefed. My life is my own.

[adrenachrome]

You won't get it!

[edgysatsuma89]

Damn, where are all the pussy claat mild curry lovers?

Funny enough mentioning it being a dessert, i have this curry in like a doughnut bread and it basically is just that. And I fucking love it.

[john e]

My name is john, and I'm a mild curry lover

[mr underhill]

that sounds less like a confession and more like a line from a half remembered song. I'm sure I've heard Fat Les sing something similar. Anyway I like Korma , especially for breakfast.

[LeeB]

that sounds less like a confession and more like a line from a half remembered song. I'm sure I've heard Fat Les sing something similar. Anyway I like Korma , especially for breakfast.

Sometimes I like a Korma, other times a Vindaloo.

I'm a Korma Chameleon.

[silhillvilla]

Butter Chicken Please Reg.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Surprised Keane didn't opt for some kind of prawn based curry

[edgysatsuma89]

My name is john, and I'm a mild curry lover

Welcome John. Now how long have you been a mild curry lover for?

[Toronto Villa]

Vindaloo for me. Hot enough that you can sweat out the flu you were going to get in a months time.

[Legion]

Naga or North Indian Garlic chicken.

[supertom]

I'm a two curries kind of guy. If I get a takeaway, myself and the Mrs normally get two mains, and have half of each. I'm not simply satisfied to have just one curry.
Sometimes I might throw in a veggie side.

And yes...I regret it the next morning. And so does the plumbing, but that's a matter to be discussed on the shithouse thread.

[adrenachrome]

Daily Express

Everton's Roberto Martinez brands Roy Keane comments 'nonsense'

ROBERTO MARTINEZ has delivered a withering riposte to Roy Keane's claims Everton put pressure on players not to appear for the Republic of Ireland and warned he risked turning the fans against their own stars.


By: Paul Joyce Published: Thu, November 20, 2014

The Everton manager went as far as dismissing Republic assistant manager Keane's biting criticism as "complete nonsense" and claimed he was working to his own agenda.

James McCarthy missed the Republic's Euro 2016 qualifying defeat to Scotland last Friday with a hamstring injury and had been absent for the previous two matches as well, including the draw with Germany.

Seamus Coleman also sat out the stalemate in Gelsenkirchen but both players appeared in Everton's win four days later against Aston Villa, for whom Keane is also assistant manager.

Keane brought the situation into the open last week, but Martinez offered a fierce rebuttal of the claims and said it was a private matter between him and Republic boss Martin O'Neill.

"James picked up a grade one hamstring problem against Sunderland," said the Everton manager. "Normally with these injuries they clear between eight and 10 days but in that period you are injured.

"I don't think it is an issue at all. If there is an issue it should be treated with respect and privately to try and get to the bottom of it.

"To come out and make things public could put some of the Irish fans thinking that the players don't want to play or that Everton have stopped some players from playing. That's nonsense. That's ridiculous.

"You just have to look at Everton and how proud we are as a football club to see our players representing us for their countries.

"Since I've been at Everton, over 140 caps have been shared between 18 players. That's a record that speaks for itself.

"It's wrong and unfair to put a doubt in the mind of the fans to think that the players could be having second thoughts about representing their country. That's maybe something that's happened in the past but I guarantee you that it's not the case in our dressing room."

Keane had been scathing of Everton and said there needed to be more consultation in the future if matters persisted.

"You always get the impression from Everton that Seamus and James are both barely able to walk," said Keane. "So when they actually turn up and they are walking through the reception, you think 'Praise the Lord, it's a miracle'."

Martinez swatted that aside and appeared to allude to Keane walking out on his country before the 2002 World Cup.

"I could easily comment on it and it would be an easy target because of his previous as a player, but my relationship is with Martin O'Neill," he said.

"I don't know the agenda that that person has behind that. Does that person do it as an ex-player? Does he do it as a fan? Does he do it in his position? Because if the two managers talk, it doesn't make much sense for him to do it.

"Our relationship with the Republic of Ireland is very good. We are in an age in football in which when injuries happen, players get a scan for everything, and it's not a subjective opinion where I think someone is carrying a problem; that's gone out of the game.

"In the cases that everyone is talking about, no one has mentioned that Seamus Coleman played against Scotland with five stitches in his foot. No one is mentioning that when everyone [in the Ireland camp] is aware of it."

[Clark W Griswold]

Keane's comment did make me laugh though, surprisingly witty.