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Football quiz: who was Roy Keane ranting about in these quotes?

Which players and managers took a tongue-lashing from Keane?
  
  

Roy Keane has his mouth closed for once.
Roy Keane has his mouth closed for once. Photograph: Cathal Noonan/INPHO/REX/Shutterstock

  1. "I am sick to death of this goalkeeper!"

    1. Darren Randolph

    2. David de Gea

    3. Jordan Pickford

    4. Roy Carroll

  2. "He’s had loads of plaudits over the last few months - I know he’s still a young man - but his body language today was shocking, really shocking. Shrugging his shoulders when things weren’t going his way, you roll your sleeves up."

    1. Paul Pogba

    2. Mason Greenwood

    3. Anthony Martial

    4. Marcus Rashford

  3. "Who is he, Mother Theresa?"

    1. Niall Quinn

    2. Alan Shearer

    3. Gary Neville

    4. Alex Ferguson

  4. "Stuff like that kinda almost insults me. What am I supposed to do? Give up? Not cover every blade of grass? Not do my best for my teammates? Not do my best for my club? To be honest, I get actually offended when people throw quotes like that at me as if I'm supposed to be honoured by it."

    1. Mick McCarthy

    2. Alex Ferguson

    3. Clive Tyldesley

    4. Ron Atkinson

  5. "I felt I was entitled to say that. He was just a mascot for them. Walking around .... – ‘Look at me, how big I am’ – and he didn’t even own the bloody thing."

    1. Mick McCarthy

    2. David Gill

    3. Alex Ferguson

    4. David Beckham

  6. "He said, ‘I’ve had enough of you. It’s time we sorted this out.’ So I said, ‘Okay.’ And we had a fight. It felt like 10 minutes. There was a lot of noise – ****’s a big lad. I woke up the next morning. I kind of vaguely remembered the fight ... My hand was really sore and one of my fingers was bent backward ... Throughout the flight, **** wore his sunglasses. He never took them off, and it wasn’t very sunny ... Butty had refereed the fight. He even got a new nickname for it – Mills Lane, after the famous boxing referee. Anyway, **** had grabbed me, I’d head-butted him – we’d been fighting for ages."

    1. Steve Bruce

    2. Ruud van Nistelrooy

    3. Niall Quinn

    4. Peter Schmeichel

  7. "One of the best pros you could ever come across, so being late for the bus tarnished him; you’d have thought he’d been caught with drugs or something. He was having a go at me."

    1. Gary Neville

    2. David Beckham

    3. Denis Irwin

    4. Andy Cole

  8. "Reinventing the game, apparently. Sugar lumps at half-time."

    1. Jürgen Klopp

    2. Arsène Wenger

    3. Pep Guardiola

    4. Julian Nagelsmann

  9. "He was an absolute prick to play against. Niggling, sneaky."

    1. Paul Ince

    2. Alf-Inge Haaland

    3. Vinnie Jones

    4. Dennis Wise

  10. "People are telling me he’s playing well, I don’t think so. This guy is 30 years of age, an international player, he’s a car crash. He keeps on making these type of mistakes. He was rightfully punished for it.”

    1. Jordan Henderson

    2. Kyle Walker

    3. Joe Hart

    4. Phil Neville

Solutions

1:B - Roy was mildly perturbed by David de Gea's role in Steven Bergwijn's goal when Manchester United drew away to Spurs in June. , 2:D - Keane felt Rashford's performance against Arsenal on 1 November left a little room for improvement., 3:A - After Keane shared some thoughts with Mick McCarthy, Quinn claimed that he had never previously heard such shocking, mortifying language. Keane was unconvinced that was actually the case. , 4:B - Keane took exception to being praised to the heavens for his performance against Juventus in 1999 – and who among us wouldn't?, 5:C - Roy was not altogether impressed when his manager found himself in a legal dispute with some of Manchester United's major shareholders – over horse semen. , 6:D - Roy was not totally sold on the way Schmeichel would shout at his teammates – "As if he was telling the crowd, ‘Look at what I have to deal with.’", 7:C - Even Roy struggled to find anything wrong with his long-time roommate., 8:B - Keane greeted the arrival of Arsenal's new manager with mild scepticism. , 9:B - Keane and Haaland did not get along so well. , 10:B - Keane was less than impressed with the Manchester City full-back's performance in the 1-1 draw with Liverpool this month.

Scores

  1. 1 and above.

    Oh dear. Roy will not be impressed

  2. 2 and above.

    Oh dear. Roy will not be impressed

  3. 3 and above.

    Oh dear. Roy will not be impressed

  4. 4 and above.

    Oh dear. Roy will not be impressed

  5. 5 and above.

    Oh dear. Roy will not be impressed

  6. 6 and above.

    You got a few wrong. Roy will not be pleased

  7. 7 and above.

    You got a few wrong. Roy will not be pleased

  8. 8 and above.

    You got two wrong. Roy will not be pleased

  9. 9 and above.

    You got one wrong. Roy will not be pleased

  10. 0 and above.

    You scored a bit fat zero. Roy will not be impressed

  11. 10 and above.

    You scored full marks. Roy would not expect any less from you.

 

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