Quote of the season comes from the mouth of Sunderland manager, Roy Keane :-
‘The Irish job?’ He gives me a look. And says nothing. Which is a shame, because when Eamon Dunphy asked him if he might one day be player-manager of Ireland he replied magnificently: ‘Yeah! Nobody would play for me but we’d have great facilities.’
This is at serious odds with Dunphy’s latest comments that Keane is a “rent-a-quote” manager :-
“But now he holds these lengthy press conferences every week in which he anoints David O’Leary to be the next Ireland manager, anoints Terry Venables to be the next Ireland manager.
“He talks about how wonderful it is for the Premier League to play games abroad and he’s just become rent-a-quote. It’s quite extraordinary,” Dunphy told the Pat Kenny show on Ireland’s RTE channel.
The thing is that a Premiership manager’s job is one long press conference (unless you are Alex Ferguson who can just do what the hell he likes because he is Sir Alex and doesn’t give a damn) where you are asked the same questions over and over and over again.
You can either waste you life taking each journalist seriously or just deal with it with platitudes and simple ciche “we are facing a struggle, but we’re up to it and taking each game one day at a time”. I know what I’d rather have my manager concentrating on and it isn’t some crappy hack. Dunphy should know better.
Also, people complain that Michael Carrick is a rent-a-quote, always in the press. They should realise that he is probably the designated commentator this season and he was probably chosen because he can speak fairly articulately (for a footballer) and has had some training. Don’t blame him for being the one coming out with the obvious comments, just blame the press for asking the same questions over and over again.
Popularity: 20% [?]
0 Responses to “Roy Keane, rent a quote or genuis ?”