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No-one can tell a footballer what to do these days and expect them to follow the orders exactly. Yes, Managers can tell every player when to do ON the pitch, but off the pitch, away from the Training Ground, and away from Football altogether, you never know quite what they are going to do, or when they're going to do it...
Just like the little kiddies who run-around and scrape their knees on the Playgrounds at Infant School, the over-payed stars of the beautifull game get upto all-sorts both on - and off of - the pitch where it all happens in a game of two halves.
Roy Keane, Patrick Vieira, and Dennis Wise are just a few of the names that come-to-mind when you try to think of the 'Bad Boys' of today's Brittish game.
With a flurry of Red Cards and Suspensions to show in their individual Career Records. Unlike the 'Golden Boys' like Michael Owen and the rest, these boys have been doing Brittish Football no-favours when it comes to the Premiership's reputation as a blood-free zone. What do they think they are, German!??
But while the Premiership has become vastly well-known world-wide for being possibly THE League to play in in World Football today, there are a few people out-there today who have commited a crime and live to tell the tale.
Going-back a few years now there was that Denis Irwin challenge on David Buust that ended the Coventry City stars' playing career 'full-stop' with a lethal-lunge.
Irwin may be Irish, but he has never been regarded-as a 'Bad Boy' of the modern game, despite what happened on that day.
And what was his punnishment? Oh, the usual. A quick slap on the rist from the FA aswell as a bit of abuse and jeering from the faithfull at Highfield Road from then-on.
More recently we have seen the publication and release of the long-awaited Autobiography of the maniac that is Roy Keane. And the Manchester United star was by-no-means afraid to say what he was feeling - no matter who it was that typed-up the final version. He revealed his intentions for 'THAT' crippling-challenge on Man City's Alf-Inge Haaland - the same Norwegian who put Keane out-of-action during his days a Elland Road in a fiercely-contested Premiership meeting.
Was revenge on Keano's evil mind? It seems likely.
But whatever he was thinking on that day, it seems to have gone against him after recent-developments within the last week as Keane has been hit with a ban that'll take-place during United's next 5 competitive matches, once he's recovered from his current injury situation. And there's also a fine of £150,000 - probably around the amount he payed for his latest motor.
But what does money mean to a player these days? Everything.
While Keane may have just had a lot removed from his Bank Account for his intentions in the past, that slight hole left in the Millionaire's earnings is already beginning to re-patch itself thanks to a mult-million pound contract at Old Trafford that'll soon see that damage fully-repayed in another 2-3 weeks.
A similar thing also happened to Rivaldo in the summer for his antics against Turkey when the ball hit the 'Brazillianaire' formerly-of the Nou Camp in the "face" - apparently. He was hit with a fine, and that was that done. Yet he was still allowedto continue to play, in-effected by that loss of "loose change" from his pocket.
It's as clear to me as it has been for the last few years now - money is now just an object to the large-majority of footballers at the top who can afford to throw-it-around here and there like it means plainly 'nothing' to them as they know they have a lot more from where that came from.
The FA, FIFA, and all-other Footballing Bodies around the world seem to have gotten the wrong message, and seem to think that they ARE hurting the players, and teaching them that they have done something wrong. But all the footballers like Keane and Rivaldo are telling us is that they are laughing right-back-at the Football Association, and even FIFA, as they can still do the one thing they came here to do, and that is play Football.
Unless we see more action take against these men behaving-badly they will continue to run-around doing no-good and laughing right-back-into the faces of the men who are supposed to be in control of this situation.
Well, they are obviously not doing a very good job!
Untill we see more bannings (I know the SR staff would be good at that ;D ) the Roy Keane's and Patrick Vieira's of tommorow will continue to push untill they see bone, and the hand-balls will appear even less-accidental as the World of Football begins to fall-apart with the Premiership as we know it becomes one big joke.
A place where the over-paid Footballers themselves on £500,000-per-week control the world-wide game that has grabbed out hearts in the past.
What exactly should and can be done is another question...
But it is the passion that took-them there in the first-place, and that is what keeps them playing on-into their late 30's, and even early 40's.
Take Football away and they'll soon be 'nothing'.
Just like the little kiddies who run-around and scrape their knees on the Playgrounds at Infant School, the over-payed stars of the beautifull game get upto all-sorts both on - and off of - the pitch where it all happens in a game of two halves.
Roy Keane, Patrick Vieira, and Dennis Wise are just a few of the names that come-to-mind when you try to think of the 'Bad Boys' of today's Brittish game.
With a flurry of Red Cards and Suspensions to show in their individual Career Records. Unlike the 'Golden Boys' like Michael Owen and the rest, these boys have been doing Brittish Football no-favours when it comes to the Premiership's reputation as a blood-free zone. What do they think they are, German!??
But while the Premiership has become vastly well-known world-wide for being possibly THE League to play in in World Football today, there are a few people out-there today who have commited a crime and live to tell the tale.
Going-back a few years now there was that Denis Irwin challenge on David Buust that ended the Coventry City stars' playing career 'full-stop' with a lethal-lunge.
Irwin may be Irish, but he has never been regarded-as a 'Bad Boy' of the modern game, despite what happened on that day.
And what was his punnishment? Oh, the usual. A quick slap on the rist from the FA aswell as a bit of abuse and jeering from the faithfull at Highfield Road from then-on.
More recently we have seen the publication and release of the long-awaited Autobiography of the maniac that is Roy Keane. And the Manchester United star was by-no-means afraid to say what he was feeling - no matter who it was that typed-up the final version. He revealed his intentions for 'THAT' crippling-challenge on Man City's Alf-Inge Haaland - the same Norwegian who put Keane out-of-action during his days a Elland Road in a fiercely-contested Premiership meeting.
Was revenge on Keano's evil mind? It seems likely.
But whatever he was thinking on that day, it seems to have gone against him after recent-developments within the last week as Keane has been hit with a ban that'll take-place during United's next 5 competitive matches, once he's recovered from his current injury situation. And there's also a fine of £150,000 - probably around the amount he payed for his latest motor.
But what does money mean to a player these days? Everything.
While Keane may have just had a lot removed from his Bank Account for his intentions in the past, that slight hole left in the Millionaire's earnings is already beginning to re-patch itself thanks to a mult-million pound contract at Old Trafford that'll soon see that damage fully-repayed in another 2-3 weeks.
A similar thing also happened to Rivaldo in the summer for his antics against Turkey when the ball hit the 'Brazillianaire' formerly-of the Nou Camp in the "face" - apparently. He was hit with a fine, and that was that done. Yet he was still allowedto continue to play, in-effected by that loss of "loose change" from his pocket.
It's as clear to me as it has been for the last few years now - money is now just an object to the large-majority of footballers at the top who can afford to throw-it-around here and there like it means plainly 'nothing' to them as they know they have a lot more from where that came from.
The FA, FIFA, and all-other Footballing Bodies around the world seem to have gotten the wrong message, and seem to think that they ARE hurting the players, and teaching them that they have done something wrong. But all the footballers like Keane and Rivaldo are telling us is that they are laughing right-back-at the Football Association, and even FIFA, as they can still do the one thing they came here to do, and that is play Football.
Unless we see more action take against these men behaving-badly they will continue to run-around doing no-good and laughing right-back-into the faces of the men who are supposed to be in control of this situation.
Well, they are obviously not doing a very good job!
Untill we see more bannings (I know the SR staff would be good at that ;D ) the Roy Keane's and Patrick Vieira's of tommorow will continue to push untill they see bone, and the hand-balls will appear even less-accidental as the World of Football begins to fall-apart with the Premiership as we know it becomes one big joke.
A place where the over-paid Footballers themselves on £500,000-per-week control the world-wide game that has grabbed out hearts in the past.
What exactly should and can be done is another question...
But it is the passion that took-them there in the first-place, and that is what keeps them playing on-into their late 30's, and even early 40's.
Take Football away and they'll soon be 'nothing'.
Didn't read what you said in that post but I guess this is about Roy Keane.
All I have to say about him is that he threw away the greatest opportunity to show his talent by walking out of the World Cup. He disgraced himself and now his kids will have to live with the fact that if they mention to their friends that their dad is Roy Keane they will be subject to loser taunts for the rest of their lives.
Roy Keane's major problem is that he acts before he thinks. He is not a very clever person and would be sweeping up in an abbatoir if he wasn't a football player.
All I have to say about him is that he threw away the greatest opportunity to show his talent by walking out of the World Cup. He disgraced himself and now his kids will have to live with the fact that if they mention to their friends that their dad is Roy Keane they will be subject to loser taunts for the rest of their lives.
Roy Keane's major problem is that he acts before he thinks. He is not a very clever person and would be sweeping up in an abbatoir if he wasn't a football player.
No-one can tell a footballer what to do these days and expect them to follow the orders exactly. Yes, Managers can tell every player when to do ON the pitch, but off the pitch, away from the Training Ground, and away from Football altogether, you never know quite what they are going to do, or when they're going to do it...
Just like the little kiddies who run-around and scrape their knees on the Playgrounds at Infant School, the over-payed stars of the beautifull game get upto all-sorts both on - and off of - the pitch where it all happens in a game of two halves.
Roy Keane, Patrick Vieira, and Dennis Wise are just a few of the names that come-to-mind when you try to think of the 'Bad Boys' of today's Brittish game.
With a flurry of Red Cards and Suspensions to show in their individual Career Records. Unlike the 'Golden Boys' like Michael Owen and the rest, these boys have been doing Brittish Football no-favours when it comes to the Premiership's reputation as a blood-free zone. What do they think they are, German!??
But while the Premiership has become vastly well-known world-wide for being possibly THE League to play in in World Football today, there are a few people out-there today who have commited a crime and live to tell the tale.
Going-back a few years now there was that Denis Irwin challenge on David Buust that ended the Coventry City stars' playing career 'full-stop' with a lethal-lunge.
Irwin may be Irish, but he has never been regarded-as a 'Bad Boy' of the modern game, despite what happened on that day.
And what was his punnishment? Oh, the usual. A quick slap on the rist from the FA aswell as a bit of abuse and jeering from the faithfull at Highfield Road from then-on.
More recently we have seen the publication and release of the long-awaited Autobiography of the maniac that is Roy Keane. And the Manchester United star was by-no-means afraid to say what he was feeling - no matter who it was that typed-up the final version. He revealed his intentions for 'THAT' crippling-challenge on Man City's Alf-Inge Haaland - the same Norwegian who put Keane out-of-action during his days a Elland Road in a fiercely-contested Premiership meeting.
Was revenge on Keano's evil mind? It seems likely.
But whatever he was thinking on that day, it seems to have gone against him after recent-developments within the last week as Keane has been hit with a ban that'll take-place during United's next 5 competitive matches, once he's recovered from his current injury situation. And there's also a fine of £150,000 - probably around the amount he payed for his latest motor.
But what does money mean to a player these days? Everything.
While Keane may have just had a lot removed from his Bank Account for his intentions in the past, that slight hole left in the Millionaire's earnings is already beginning to re-patch itself thanks to a mult-million pound contract at Old Trafford that'll soon see that damage fully-repayed in another 2-3 weeks.
A similar thing also happened to Rivaldo in the summer for his antics against Turkey when the ball hit the 'Brazillianaire' formerly-of the Nou Camp in the "face" - apparently. He was hit with a fine, and that was that done. Yet he was still allowedto continue to play, in-effected by that loss of "loose change" from his pocket.
It's as clear to me as it has been for the last few years now - money is now just an object to the large-majority of footballers at the top who can afford to throw-it-around here and there like it means plainly 'nothing' to them as they know they have a lot more from where that came from.
The FA, FIFA, and all-other Footballing Bodies around the world seem to have gotten the wrong message, and seem to think that they ARE hurting the players, and teaching them that they have done something wrong. But all the footballers like Keane and Rivaldo are telling us is that they are laughing right-back-at the Football Association, and even FIFA, as they can still do the one thing they came here to do, and that is play Football.
Unless we see more action take against these men behaving-badly they will continue to run-around doing no-good and laughing right-back-into the faces of the men who are supposed to be in control of this situation.
Well, they are obviously not doing a very good job!
Untill we see more bannings (I know the SR staff would be good at that ;D ) the Roy Keane's and Patrick Vieira's of tommorow will continue to push untill they see bone, and the hand-balls will appear even less-accidental as the World of Football begins to fall-apart with the Premiership as we know it becomes one big joke.
A place where the over-paid Footballers themselves on £500,000-per-week control the world-wide game that has grabbed out hearts in the past.
What exactly should and can be done is another question...
But it is the passion that took-them there in the first-place, and that is what keeps them playing on-into their late 30's, and even early 40's.
Take Football away and they'll soon be 'nothing'.
Just like the little kiddies who run-around and scrape their knees on the Playgrounds at Infant School, the over-payed stars of the beautifull game get upto all-sorts both on - and off of - the pitch where it all happens in a game of two halves.
Roy Keane, Patrick Vieira, and Dennis Wise are just a few of the names that come-to-mind when you try to think of the 'Bad Boys' of today's Brittish game.
With a flurry of Red Cards and Suspensions to show in their individual Career Records. Unlike the 'Golden Boys' like Michael Owen and the rest, these boys have been doing Brittish Football no-favours when it comes to the Premiership's reputation as a blood-free zone. What do they think they are, German!??
But while the Premiership has become vastly well-known world-wide for being possibly THE League to play in in World Football today, there are a few people out-there today who have commited a crime and live to tell the tale.
Going-back a few years now there was that Denis Irwin challenge on David Buust that ended the Coventry City stars' playing career 'full-stop' with a lethal-lunge.
Irwin may be Irish, but he has never been regarded-as a 'Bad Boy' of the modern game, despite what happened on that day.
And what was his punnishment? Oh, the usual. A quick slap on the rist from the FA aswell as a bit of abuse and jeering from the faithfull at Highfield Road from then-on.
More recently we have seen the publication and release of the long-awaited Autobiography of the maniac that is Roy Keane. And the Manchester United star was by-no-means afraid to say what he was feeling - no matter who it was that typed-up the final version. He revealed his intentions for 'THAT' crippling-challenge on Man City's Alf-Inge Haaland - the same Norwegian who put Keane out-of-action during his days a Elland Road in a fiercely-contested Premiership meeting.
Was revenge on Keano's evil mind? It seems likely.
But whatever he was thinking on that day, it seems to have gone against him after recent-developments within the last week as Keane has been hit with a ban that'll take-place during United's next 5 competitive matches, once he's recovered from his current injury situation. And there's also a fine of £150,000 - probably around the amount he payed for his latest motor.
But what does money mean to a player these days? Everything.
While Keane may have just had a lot removed from his Bank Account for his intentions in the past, that slight hole left in the Millionaire's earnings is already beginning to re-patch itself thanks to a mult-million pound contract at Old Trafford that'll soon see that damage fully-repayed in another 2-3 weeks.
A similar thing also happened to Rivaldo in the summer for his antics against Turkey when the ball hit the 'Brazillianaire' formerly-of the Nou Camp in the "face" - apparently. He was hit with a fine, and that was that done. Yet he was still allowedto continue to play, in-effected by that loss of "loose change" from his pocket.
It's as clear to me as it has been for the last few years now - money is now just an object to the large-majority of footballers at the top who can afford to throw-it-around here and there like it means plainly 'nothing' to them as they know they have a lot more from where that came from.
The FA, FIFA, and all-other Footballing Bodies around the world seem to have gotten the wrong message, and seem to think that they ARE hurting the players, and teaching them that they have done something wrong. But all the footballers like Keane and Rivaldo are telling us is that they are laughing right-back-at the Football Association, and even FIFA, as they can still do the one thing they came here to do, and that is play Football.
Unless we see more action take against these men behaving-badly they will continue to run-around doing no-good and laughing right-back-into the faces of the men who are supposed to be in control of this situation.
Well, they are obviously not doing a very good job!
Untill we see more bannings (I know the SR staff would be good at that ;D ) the Roy Keane's and Patrick Vieira's of tommorow will continue to push untill they see bone, and the hand-balls will appear even less-accidental as the World of Football begins to fall-apart with the Premiership as we know it becomes one big joke.
A place where the over-paid Footballers themselves on £500,000-per-week control the world-wide game that has grabbed out hearts in the past.
What exactly should and can be done is another question...
But it is the passion that took-them there in the first-place, and that is what keeps them playing on-into their late 30's, and even early 40's.
Take Football away and they'll soon be 'nothing'.