World Cup dreams can be a nightmare
Monday November 23 2009
LIKE Martin Luther King, I had a dream. I dreamt France went to South Africa in 2010 and won the World Cup and showed us what a sham and a mockery this tournament had become.
I dreamt that Thierry Henry, as French captain, was presented with the Jules Rimet trophy, once held proudly aloft by the great Pele, Bobby Moore, Franz Beckenbauer and France's own Didier Deschamps, only to show the world and its children that cheating does pay.
Then I dreamt that Cinderella never got to the ball and the ugly sisters had the place to themselves. By default they got to dance with Roy Keane and Stephen Ireland.
My mobile went off and I woke up. I must stay away from cheap French beer.
Artane, dublin
ROY Keane appeared at a press briefing last Friday and aired his views on the injustice done to Ireland. And instead of supporting his home country's football team, he defended Henry's handball, and launched an attack on the Irish players.
He came across as a bitter little man, and a bully with a long memory, a bad temper, and a big chip on his shoulder.
He got away with his rant because the media hacks he was addressing behaved more like cowed sheep than hard-necked sports reporters.
Football supporters both here and in Britain have been pandering to this nasty man, and excusing his bad manners for a long time now.
I think he should be advised to take a walk.
That is, get lost, because he gives Ireland a bad name.
Paddy O'brien
balbriggan, Co Dublin
THREE days on and the Hand of God, Paris version, is still running and, surprise, surprise, up pops Roy Keane. And after ranting a while, Roy's advice was to "get over it".
Sound advice, I agree, but Roy also used the opportunity to give his seven-year chip on the shoulder another outing.
By all means let's get over it, but in Roy's case my advice to him would be to concentrate on saving his job over in Ipswich and let the FAI look after their affairs.
Has he forgotten the sequence of events in Saipan along with the fact that the team almost went all the way -- without him?
Screen, Co Wexford
Irish Independent
