Tue, 06 Sep 12:28:00 2011 Roy Keane is expected to watch Iceland play Cyprus in Reykjavik tonight after being approached to have an interview to become their next manager. However, the Daily Mail reported that he missed an appointment with the Icelandic FA on Monday, leaving officials waiting at the airport. Nevertheless, Iceland are still eager to recruit the former Sunderland boss. "Interviews have taken place with a number of coaches," an Icelandic FA spokesman said. "We're in no hurry because the current coach's contract runs until the end of the qualification campaign, which finishes against Portugal on October 7." If Keane does makes the surprising move, he will not be the first Irish manager in charge of a Nordic country. His former international boss Brian Kerr is now in charge of the Faroe Islands. Former Reading and Crystal Palace manager Steve Coppell has also been linked with the Iceland role, along with ex-Sweden boss Lars Lagerback and Stuart Baxter.
I loved Keano he transformed this club with the help of Saint Niall and drumaville into a stable (ish) premiership club and basically rescued us from the brink of almost oblivion where we were heading at the time. I know he wasted a lot of money in his final summer but the guy for me is an safc legend. His volatile personality always meant that he was liable to walk at any time and in the end he did and it almost cost us. However at the end of the day it wasnt his choice to give Sbragia the managers job after him was it. I thank Roy for re-inventing our club and giving us a massive publicity rise at a time when we desperately needed it. I wish him well in whatever he chooses to do from now on in his career and remember his time here fondly. He was what we needed at the time but i probably wouldnt have him back now.
Redfender,Id give him a job as a ball-boy on a north-sea ferry,then I'd kick the ball overboard,and shout "fetch" to him!
First of all i do not like Keane(i like th pop groupe a little) think he is a numpty and he a has no personal qualities that i like.....However is he totally useless as a manager? if so how did he get us from the position we were in when he joined to promotion in the same season.........are we saying that the manager in general has little input to the performance and it was simply down to the players(a lot of whom he bought).Or are we saying that the championship is easy to win....what does that say about the 22 teams struggling to escape.........I personally think he knows the game..but there is a little homunculus in his head called kenoooooooooooo (representing all the negative attributes of human behaviour)who makes him a complete and utter liability as a human being and a leader of men..Its a pity because the potential was there but keano got in the way perhaps............ ...He may have a road to damascus conversion!..... into a human being.......ps I also won £750 that year on us winning the league so fiscally he paid for my season ticket ,so he cannot be that bad.
He's a c**t and wa**s his dog... But seriousy if this is true it just goes to show he has little respect for anyone but himself
Well. I liked Keane. His problem was he based his management on a God (Clough) and when with us was 20 years behind "modern thinking". He wasted money simply to get half decent players here to keep us up as part of Quinn's plan (which he obviously bought in to). I wish him well. An old-fashioned guy in a modern world. Simple as that. x
I loved him when he was here. Definite inexperience when he was here and wasted a LOT of money but I don't think we'd be where we are today without him! Big name got the ball rolling with Quinn & Co and got a bit of hope around the place. I think he's suited to international management. He can fire up his players without the need to actually spend money on buying them!
