The Keane debate continues…
by Brendan Coffey
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You’ll see more theories on Roy Keane and his departure from Sunderland on this link although this theory is a little less than half baked.
The analogy seems to be stretched beyond belief. You are right in your observation about the euphemistic world of sports journalism although that applies to most of the tabloids, you seem to have a particular beef with the Irish Times, which is the one paper that has accurately captured Keane through the magical writing of Tom Humphries. Even Humphries has pointed out the fallacy of people believing that he has a major inside line on Keane just because he did a couple of revealing interviews with him.
If you want to see compare sport and the Celtic Tiger then you have to look at sports like triathlon and UFC, which are thriving at the moment. They are alpha sports that appeal to the driven and the demented, the kind of people who get up at 5 in the morning for a run, land in the office, work until 6, do a night course and grab a swim on the way home. They are the kind of people that have been created by, and which drive, the Celtic Tiger. Keane’s rise and fall has just been exaggerated by the increasing exposure of sport, which is influenced by American and British media, not dictated by economic fortunes.
Keane overspent money but you seem to forget that you can’t exactly underspend in the inflated world of the Premiership, no price makes sense, just that some look good in comparison to others, you are just buying a football player at the end of the day.
As another poster has alluded to I hope the book is a little more thought out.
