Premier League - Managers: Keane future doubt
Eurosport - Sun, 30 Nov 21:22:00 2008
All the reaction following Saturday's matches in the Premier League - including Sunderland manager Roy Keane's confession that he is not sure whether he is the right man for the job after the 4-1 defeat at home to Bolton.
Sunderland 1-4 Bolton Wanderers
Roy Keane: "I ask myself every single day if I am the right man for Sunderland. I asked myself this morning and I said that I was. Tomorrow morning if the answer's no we will have to look at it. I have to be honest in my assessment. It's not about what's best for Roy Keane. It's Sunderland Football Club. I might wake up on Monday morning and think I'm the right man. On Tuesday it might be different. I'm the manager of this football club and ultimately I'm responsible and I've never shied away from that. That's part of being a manager and that's why I take full responsibility for today and the run we're on and everything else."
Gary Megson: "There's no secret and the only thing we're doing differently that we weren't doing beforehand is scoring goals. Our performances are not much different except in terms of confidence. When we score goals all the other aspects of our game come to the fore and people start to realise what we've got ... [Johan Elmander] scored two fantastic goals and had one kicked off the line so I'm really pleased with him. People have focused on the fact that he hasn't scored enough goals but his performances have always been really good."
Aston Villa 0-0 Fulham
Martin O'Neill: "I think from the outside it is easy to throw at us that we have choked but I don't believe that. We went into the game full of confidence and with our hopes high after the previous two games. It is tough. Fulham were cock-a-hoop after their draw at Liverpool, played the same system, and it was tough for us to break them down. But as regards choking, I do not accept that. Every game is hard and we are not brilliant enough at the moment to steamroll teams but we are doing fine."
Roy Hodgson: "We are having an impressive sequence of results and it is down to the discipline and hard work we are showing. I thought in the first half we did quite well in terms of passing the ball around and were not just defending. We were under siege a bit in the second half, the most we have been for a while, and Villa threw everything at us in that period."
Stoke City 1-1 Hull City
Tony Pulis: "When you go a goal down in the Premier League it is very difficult to come back. I was pleased with the character of the lads in the second half, their effort and commitment was first class. In the final third at times we need that little bit more to open teams up. But it is a good point, we are building, the transfer window opens in four weeks' time and we will be trying to do some business."
Phil Brown on Stoke's penalty: "We've been robbed by a poor decision, in my opinion. It wasn't a spectacle by any stretch of the imagination. But we came in 1-0 up - I said the first goal in today's game would be important and it should have been enough to win it - but we were a little bit undone by a dubious decision. It was a very theatrical dive. You have to be 100 per cent right when you make decisions like that and I don't think you can be in that situation."
Middlesbrough 0-0 Newcastle United
Gareth Southgate: "It was very much a point gained, a hard-earned point, but one we certainly deserved. We had the majority of the game, certainly in the second half - it was pretty much one-way traffic for long periods of the second half. We allowed them a few breaks and they had a chance near the end which we shouldn't have allowed them to have, but I am very pleased with how we played. Sometimes you draw a game and you are disappointed with the performance, but I thought bar the finishing touch, we had pretty much everything today."
Newcastle assistant manager Chris Hughton on Obafemi Martins's furious reaction to being substituted: "You want nobody to be happy to be taken off, but any issues that way are always dealt with in-house, and that's always the correct way to approach it, always ... On the back of last week, what we wanted to do was keep a clean sheet. We felt we had enough in the team to score us a goal here."
Wigan Athletic 2-1 West Bromwich
Steve Bruce: "We have to thank our goalkeeper (Chris Kirkland) - he was fantastic - and in my eyes is one of the best goalkeepers in the country if not the best. With his fragile back we have decided to put the reins on him and keep him fresh. That's why we have changed his training regime. He was one of the old-fashioned types who just wanted balls blasted at him from six yards. He was a workaholic. He would be on the pitch at 9am and still there at 2pm. That work left him a bit stiff."
Tony Mowbray: "I thought we played OK today, the balance of the team was fine. We created more than enough chances to win the game but ended up losing it. Generally week-in, week-out we are better than the opposition on the balance of play. Yet football is about being clinical in both boxes. We have got to keep going. We have what we have - but we paid a heavy price in this game."
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Keane will be ok top man.
jack torrance
thank you jack for confirming my statement that, i will take you to the cleaners each and every time; you have no answer to my arguments so you resort to personal attacks!
Back of the net!!!!!
You do realise that i don't take this Newcastle-Sunderland 'rivallry' half as seriously as you don't you?
That is sooo 1970's; move on man, this is just supposed to be harmless banter.
I have many friends who are sunderland fans, they are season ticket holders, and they all want keane out; funny that, i mean, do you actually attend the games?
Speaking of wise, at least he brought in 2 current Argentinian internationals at a fraction of the cost that 'the legend' would've splashed out, and Bassong - all 3 would walk straight into your side.
Keano is a legend.
Roy might not be doing too well at the moment as a manager, but no-one can ever take away the fact that he was a legend as a player. Dirty? occasionally when necessary, Roy always stamped (pardon the pun) his authority on a game from the kick-off and people knew he would not take any @#$% from them, ask anyone who has ever played against him.
Possibly the Greatest Footballer that England has seen in a very very long time, old school, not afraid of the hard knocks like the imported prima donnas that we see today. Oops, I've tripped and messed my hair, or cracked a nail, or " Victoria, can I play today ".
Rock on Roy. " Keano, Keano, Keano"
I hope he takes Sunderland down instead of quitting/sacking. That way he will never be able to visit the north-east again without running the risk of getting his swede caved in. Never liked the bloke. He's a nasty dirty whinging cheat with little managerial skills. This weekend is the FIST time he has ever taken the blame instead of pushing it onto the poor performance of the ref. Go read them, there all there in the Sunderland page news history.
Sunderland were doing fine until Jones came back from injury and Chops went on loan. The style sunderland plays with Jones up front doesn't suit Cisse.
Keane . . .top bloke.Stay and make us proud.Wise . . legend
Cameron w . ."Fabulous defensive display" guess that's why they pay Owen £110,000 a week. PHD eh? what does that stand for, a Penniless Humpty Dumpty? You brighten up the long winter nights with your meaningless diatribe.I raise my glass of Port to your Styrofoam cup of white cider.
Keane must b sacked and replace by Allardyce or Keegan ...sunderland have good quality players but keane was changin the side too many lately so there was no consisty
remember when keane bring back sunderland back to high division...n make them survive in one hard season...now they seem like a bit problem plus hull n stoke is in good starting performer....lucky they still got half season to go....i guess he can manage n fix sunderland squad soon....
One lone striker all the time. No wonder we've scored the least number of goals in the Premier League. To be honest, that lone striker is not Premiership calibre. I think we're suffering from "Newcastle syndrome" in not having given Kevin Phillips a 2-year contract. I just don't believe that was the manager's decision.
The basic things are:
1. Even the best manager cannot win the title with a team of average players!
2. Even the worst manager can steer Man U or Barcelona to their respective league title.
3. It is better to RESIGN then get SACKED! At least there are some compensation before you get the Boot!
anyone who writes his name as being peter grant wilson has to be a pompas @#$% to begin with so what he writes can only be drivle
Hull supporters have gone dead quiet latesly as their team wanders down the hill of no return.
Keane wants to jump ship which is typical of a mediocre manager.
Could Keane be another Keegan?
the frightening thing we seem to be seeing is the number of players going straight into management and after a brief honeymoon period ,failing badly.
being a great player doesnt necessarily mean being a natural managemet material.
bryan robson was expected to take over alex's mantle,
ince was good in the lower divisions,but there are bigger personalities on the firld that are not overawed by these new player managers,
there is of course the odd exception, mark hughes and possibly tony adams, but look at shearer he had a helluva lot more sense to get back in,
he'll wait till hes good and ready if ever. martin keown knew better not to get involved in tony adams dream team of management
maybe this is roy keanes honeymonn period waning,
good luck to yee all,
me, i'm irish and a spurs fan for my trouble but will always support them.
mags_039
How am i self-opinionated? It was claimed that i was probably claiming invalidity benefit, all i did was merely put the record straight. Look at what i have posted, no don't look . . . read what i have posted, and please tell me that i am wrong about Roy Keane's dealings in the transfer market; not only did he buy questionable talent, he also paid at grossly inflated prices. And just for the record, i know how bad Newcastle are, and i know that there is a good chance they may be relegated.
ronnie
the job in hand is staying in the prem
not getting into it
he is failing !
Let's face it keano got sudnerland to the premiership, and if fergie thought hed be a great manager, i don't think a bunch of homos on here posting their views matters.
cameron
u pompous self opinionated @#$%
but yer right about keane
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