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You could go through a whole list of TV personalities and say the same thing to be honest and I'd include the likes of Kelly Cates in that. Just bland and extremely boring.Keys and Gray seem like such relics of the ‘90s that it’s almost implausible to think that they were only sacked in 2011. I think of them as being around during the early Mourinho days at Chelsea, when Keane was kicked out of United at the latest.
Weird to think they were around in 2010, when modern football was in full swing. Guardiola was over halfway through his third season as Barcelona coach when they were sacked. Just let that sink in.
Briefly, I'll answer some of you. I resigned from Sky. Simple. I wasn't pushed nor was I sacked. I left of my own accord after they sacked Andy. My views on that are well known. He was a scapegoat for the mis-deeds of others, some of whom have since faced justice, others have slipped away quietly and hope to surface again elsewhere. I doubt it will happen. Not if the FBI pursue their investigations.
When Andy and I invented MNF our objective was to talk about 'football'. It is again now that we've re-created the original formula at BeIN Sports.
Didn’t know about this one.The Sunday Mirror was given the footage in which Keys can be heard calling former player David Johnson 'choco jocko' when discussing the striker's hopes of becoming a Scottish international with Ray Wilkins and Graeme Souness.
His comment came as a response to Souness asking: "He looks like a jock doesn't he?"
Keys himself has categorically denied suggestions he is racist, saying: "I absolutely refute any suggestion of any racism.
"This was off-air and 11 years ago and anyone who knows me knows that Ruud Gullit, Dion Dublin and Ian Wright are not only my past associates but some of my best friends.”
That's from 2015 mate.https://mobile.twitter.com/richardajkeys/status/597053575496269826
Not sure how to embed tweets but Keys spouting off about Man City bidding for Pogba
That's from 2015 mate.
I have no idea what he's trying to say here. Who'd have taken it? Both of them? "...simply waiting if have appointed..." What?So what would I have done now? If I knew I’d got Poch in the bag and was simply waiting if have appointed Laurent Blanc. He’d have taken it. I’ve heard from sources that have checked.
The man is clinically fed up. I've seen him eat a plastic pie."Not once did I come up short. Ever."
What is it about that sentence that just sounds insane? It's so Partridge, yet also feels even more unhinged.
What on earth is going on at Manchester United? Ole Gunnar Solsjkaer. Really? ‘Ah, he’s one of us’ United fans will say. So was Wilf McGuiness.
So Bruce is the right man for the job, for the exact same reason that Ole wasn’t? Erm...Bruce is the right man for the job now. He knows the club. He knows what the supporters want. They want to be entertained and have fun when they watch their team play.
The man is clinically fed up. I've seen him eat a plastic pie.
didnt he bang his daughter's mate? is that what he means by not coming up short?I refer to my private life. I will not dignify the scandalous bullying and character assassination by commenting beyond saying I am a father and husband that gave everything and more to his family. Not once did I come up short. Ever
You couldnt make this shit up.So Bruce is the right man for the job, for the exact same reason that Ole wasn’t? Erm...
Obviously I have wasted my time writing parody threads.Richard Keys said:Yet more nauseating shit.
My pal Brucey waited his whole life for the Newcastle job. Then he turned it down. Then he said he'd take it, as the shelf-stacking job at Asda had gone. As my old friend Nelson Mandela, a black man, said to me last night, "Rich, our mate Brucey will turn Newcastle into a global name...like the Umbrella Corporation." And Admiral Nelson was right. And so am I. And you're not. And neither is Benitez. Or Sky.
How was he ever a professional journalist? He can’t write or use punctuation properly.Why Steve Bruce was right to take Newcastle
My goodness. There are some angry people in the world. Not just angry - plain rude as well. Experts in everything who actually know nothing about the subject they’re mouthing off about. I refer to my private life. I will not dignify the scandalous bullying and character assassination by commenting beyond saying I am a father and husband that gave everything and more to his family. Not once did I come up short. Ever.
Now. Let’s get round to the original reason for breaking my summer holiday promise that I wouldn’t blog again until the season started - Steve Bruce. Good on you Brucey. It takes a ‘man’ to step into the chaos and abuse you’re now getting - simply for fulfilling a lifetimes ambition. After previously saying ‘no’ - he’s now got the job he grew up dreaming of. Just like Bobby Robson. Do you all remember when Bob took it - at a time when Newcastle were owned by another vilified owner - the late Freddy Shepherd? Remember him? Poor fella. He got pelters for doing his best at St James’ Park. Some people have got very short memories eh? I remember saying when Mike Ashley ripped the club from beneath his hospital bed that some time soon Newcastle fans would look back on the ‘Shepherd Years’ with affection. Guess what? Yep. I got hammered then as well. Bruce is the right man for the job now. He knows the club. He knows what the supporters want. They want to be entertained and have fun when they watch their team play. Oh for Keegan’s wonderful entertainers. I’m not suggesting that there aren’t issues at Newcastle. Of course there are - but back a man like Mike Ashley into a corner and you’re only making things worse. Benitez did that - and played poker with a poor hand. None of us wants to be beaten up Ashley constantly is. I’m equally sure he meant it a couple of years ago when he said he wasn’t going anywhere until Newcastle won something. Fingers crossed if you’re a Newcastle fan - Brucey might just make that happen!
‘Sell it’ Geordie fans scream. That club has been for sale for 5 years. The question is ‘why won’t it sell’? Is it because it’s toxic? I refer again to the late Freddy Shepherd. He couldn’t escape brutal criticism - even when he went deeply into personal debt to fund the club. Nor could Sir John Hall. And he gave the Geordies their club back - and Keegan. I ask you - what’s the ‘up’ side to owning Newcastle? I’m sorry - but it’s true.
Bruce is apparently a ‘dinosaur’. Funny that. We used to call a guy like him ‘experienced’. All his life he’s been working toward this. There have been highs and lows in his career. On the upside - 4 promotions with bang ordinary teams. He gave Wigan their highest ever PL finish. He was the last man to finish in the top 10 with Sunderland, before being sacked because he couldn’t deny his heart really lay at St James’. He’s managed in a mad house at Hull. He laid the foundations for Villa to go up last season - and that’s in no way a slight on Dean Smith. Dean did a fantastic job to get it over the line. No, Bruce has a vast library of experiences to call on in a situation like this.
He was apparently little more than 11th choice for the job. Nonsense. That story came from China via a Spanish football ‘expert’. A British broadcaster ran with it - newspapers repeated it. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Sloppy lazy journalism. When I started in this line of work my first editor told me ‘check - check it again. And then check it again’. No-one could’ve checked that fairy tale.
I’ve tweeted on the subject of Benitez. I’ve blogged. I’ve said he deserved great credit for staying and getting them back after relegation - but he did have the biggest budget in the C’ship and being able to sign 18 players helped. 18 players for £102m. Fact Rafa. Chris Hughton did the same job on relatively buttons.
Which brings me to Alan Shearer’s comments saying he told Bruce not to take it. Why? They spent most of the summer together. Alan knew how it was all unfolding. Why not back his mate publicly and get Geordies on his side? I know Alan has issues with Ashley. The owner was wrong to turn Shearer’s bar into the ‘No 9’ bar. Alan is a legend at St James’ - but he forgive Ashley for turfing him out after he took them down. I remember the time well. I remember my little mate Ray Wilkins telling me after Chelsea had played them - in Alan’s first game I think - ‘Keysie, he’ll suffocate them. It won’t work’. How right was he? I must say Alan’s strange choice of assistant didn’t help. Iain Dowie didn’t do him any favours - certainly not the night I sat with him having dinner in Newcastle and he told me ‘it’s not my team yet’. ‘Yet’? Ffs. I’ll never forget that. Not quite the No2 you want covering your backside eh?
At the start of the following season Alan was in turmoil because he couldn’t nail the job. It was obviously a money issue. I called and said ‘Do it for nothing. You don’t need the money. Tell Ashley to pay you at the end of the season when you’ve got them up. You’ll cement your legendary status in concrete. He can’t turn an offer like that down’. Chris Hughton got the job. Come on Al. Give Brucey your public backing. At the end of the day - it’s Newcastle. It’s not Ashley.
Ashley will eventually leave. There been at least two bidders in the data room all summer - but still no resolution. Let’s hope for all our sakes there is soon, but if Newcastle fans want an example of bad owners look at Bolton. At Coventry. At Bury. At Blackpool. I could go on.
Newcastle are a PL team. Of course they could go down - but I don’t believe they will. If Bruce has got a deal like his predecessors then his bonuses will click in if he finishes 10th or better. Is that why Rafa always tossed off the Cup competitions? Steve Bruce is a proud Geordie. Managing Newcastle won’t mean as much to anyone else working in the game. My message to him would be ‘Good luck - and now go and win something’. Brucey knows better than anyone that it’s time someone did that at St James’ Park.
https://richardajkeys.com/index.php/blog/212-why-steve-bruce-was-right-to-take-newcastle
What even is this sentence?!None of us wants to be beaten up Ashley constantly is.
Do you have a Keys parody thread that I've not seen?Obviously I have wasted my time writing parody threads.
I was going to point this out last night but I'd had a few and thought I must be missing some kind of joke here. But no he really is crazy.didnt he bang his daughter's mate? is that what he means by not coming up short?
edit ... while his wife had cancer
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...s-cancer-stricken-wife-daughter-s-friend.html