Keano does it again
Friday, 05 December 08, 02:20 PM · Comments(1)
by Joel Abraham
So, Roy Keane bottled it. He bottled it for Ireland, he bottled it at United, he bottled it at Celtic and now he’s bottled it at Sunderland.
No longer will we be forced to watch a terrible Sunderland side on TV just because of their manager. 'Roy Keane's Sunderland' are no more, and nobody seems particularly surprised.
After an impressive promotion-winning campaign, Keane's Premier League debut season was a disappointment, not least for the TV producers. The role of raging psychopath was continually foisted upon Keane, who instead turned out to be quiet, withdrawn, and visibly out of his depth. The Mackems rode their luck and finished 15th last season, and the honeymoon period was well and truly over.
The pressure of the second season took its toll on Keane, who became quieter, stranger, sporting a bizarre beard and giving oddly bleak post-match interviews. His tactics became incomprehensible, notably for the visit of West Ham, where Sunderland repeatedly played the ball out wide to cross for Cisse, in spite of the clear aerial dominance of Upson and Collins.
The nature of this season’s Premier League is such that a run of two or three poor results causes most teams to go sliding down the table. Sunderland have done just that, and one suspects that as they slipped into 18th, Keane panicked.
His scattergun transfer policy is also highly questionable. When you spend £70m and the best player you have to show for it is Kenwyne Jones, it's probably time to think about doing something else.
And so it turned out, Keane didn't fancy management, and wasn't particularly good at it either. He leaves Sunderland well and truly up the creek, with an oversized, underperforming squad that has little resale value.
Where now for Sunderland? Without their celebrity manager, nobody cares.
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As a Sunderland fan I find your comments to be right on the money,The fans were expecting a lot from him and he delivered nothing,The man behind Sunderlands success is Quinn I think that he's learnt alot from the Keane Saga.