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[brennser]

way-hay - come on you boys in green!!!
 
 Keane makes himself available for Irish team
 
 13 April 2004 16:55
 The Manchester United captain, Roy Keane, has announced he is making himself available for selection for future Ireland international matches.
 
 Mr Keane, who departed from the Irish international team during the World Cup two years ago, issued a statement, via his agent, to RTÃ? News this afternoon.
 
 The development follows discussions with the manager of the Irish team, Brian Kerr and the manager of Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson.  
 
 In a telephone call to RTÃ? News, Mr Keane's agent, Michael Kennedy said that 'following discussions with Brian Kerr and Alex Ferguson, Roy Keane has agreed to make himself available for selection for international games in the future'.
 
 Reacting to the news in an FAI statement, Mr Kerr said he was delighted at Mr Keane's decision, and added that he would look forward to working with the Cork midfielder.
 
 'He brings quality and experience to a potentially excellent squad of players whose sole focus is the World Cup qualifying matches next autumn,' Mr Kerr said.
 
 The Irish team is due to begin its qualifying campaign for the 2006 World Cup in September against Cyprus.

[mankie]

I read that yesterday, that's great news...unless England end up meeting Ireland during any competitions of course.....It was a crying shame that Irelands most profilic player for years was not on the squad....like Brazil without Pele. Mind you, I'll bet some of the players who were around when the shit hit the fan will be thinking, "Oh shite, I hope he doesn't remember I sided with McCarthy"
 
 I was almost hoping Sunderland would've made it to the FA Cup final so we could've had a showdown between Keane and McCarthy.

[Barcelona]

Ranieri can say whatever he wants, but to have the chance of playing with one more player in the second half when the score was 1-1 and then lose 3-1 just tells you how bad a coach he is. He didn't do anything special as a coach in Italy and Spain and he certainly hasn't showed too much in England either. I agree with him that Abramovich does not know a shit about soccer, but neither does he.

[mankie]

Originally posted by Barcelona:
  Ranieri can say whatever he wants, but to have the chance of playing with one more player in the second half when the score was 1-1 and then lose 3-1 just tells you how bad a coach he is. He didn't do anything special as a coach in Italy and Spain and he certainly hasn't showed too much in England either. I agree with him that Abramovich does not know a shit about soccer, but neither does he.

I think he's done an okay job at Chelski considering he was given all the quality players with quality player egos and tried to make a team out of them all, that's not easy and there's only a handful of managers that could pull that off.
 
 I do believe he's a good manager, but not a great one...he should be given another year at least with Chelski because he's done better than I expected in one season.

[Barcelona]

Mankie, if you have a chance don't miss the Real Madrid - Barcelona this Sunday at 1:30 pm. Beckham vs Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho and Henry are considered the best players of the year in Europe.

[ratioci nation]

for you people that like this "sport" here are some anthems and chants http://www.lksfans.pl/ftp/mp3_kibice/Mp3%20Kibice/

[brennser]

dearie me, big rons in trouble

[mankie]

Originally posted by brennser:
  dearie me, big rons in trouble

YOWZER!!!! That's strong language, even for a dumb yorkshire pudding eating git!
 
 Of course, he could've said he was a black man trapped in a white mans body, and that statement would've been completely acceptable.

[Barcelona]

<img src="http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040425/capt.xpw10704252005.spain_soccer_xpw107.jpg" alt=" - " />
 
 Yes, we did it! 1-2.

[ChampionshipVinyl]

Newcastle 2 - Chelsea 1 = Arsenal Title!!  

[ChampionshipVinyl]

So who do you think is getting relegated?

[Barcelona]

So Valencia won the UEFA cup against Marseille. I think Valencia has been the best team in Europe this year. Even in the case that Porto won the Champions League final next week, I would still think that Valencia was the best team. They don't have any big star, but they are an incredibly serious team, very effective. I doubt Arsenal would beat them.