Fully understandable Terry. I guess it's really just mainly the Irish fans & a few other admirers of International football that see a benefit of Keano playing International football.
The thing about it is though, leaving my loyalty to Ireland to one side, Keane is the big man for the big occasion. In the 1994 WC he played in a formation he didn't like (dare I go mentioning a 4-5-1) with Tommy Coyne up top & a cantral midfield of Townsend, Keano & Sheridan. Roy was supeb in that formation. He was superb against Italy in the Giants Stadium, superb in every game he played. His role was to get forward onto the end of balls won by Coyne up front & he did it to great effect. Under McCarthy his role was different & none of us will ever forget that run from the edge of Portugal's box to the edge of Ireland's box to prevent a goal. Roy simply demonstrates at this level that he is probably, no definitely the best midfielder in Europe. I mean they say Zidane is a class act, but who was Zidane meant to be marking when we scored our first goal in Turin in 1999? Roy, that's who. He probably sh*t in his pants at the thoughts of competing for an aerial ball with Keano. Great player, hope to see him win a CL medal this coming May. -----Original Message----- From: fanxb2eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I hope not. At his age, and with all his injury problems, the last thing Roy needs is to be dragged away to flog his guts out trying to rescue Ireland from their poor start. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subscription info WWW http://red11.org/list Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] = subscribe to the list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] = unsubscribe from the list. Post message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
