Ah, the age thing again. How often do you older posters need to use this one? I've been watching United since around 1996 so unless Keane was a very angry and fairly limited holding player 3 years into his career with us, then I'm afraid you're once more spouting a load of old rubbish.
To be fair, I think this thread highlights some of the problems that come up with people of our age talking about things in the 90's and earlier. We're generally basing things off second-hand information, and much of that naturally doesn't tell the whole story. Even if it's not second-hand information, it's first-hand information at a time when you couldn't properly process it, when you couldn't take it all in, so again it doesn't tell the whole story.
If it's second-hand information it's usually only the '
shocking, disgraceful' stuff that is alluded to, and then sensationalised, and so that portrays Keane in a different way to how you would have viewed him if you were 10 years older, I think. As for the first-hand information, it's just dependent on whatever sticks, whatever you take in - generally that'll be the big story in it without the necessary background information, because you just don't care enough about that at that age, and it'll mirror how the media made it seem in some ways.
Maybe it'll be Rooney in a decade or so dividing opinions in the same way? Continuously reckless on the pitch as a young lad, caught spitting at the a press-person, repeatedly cheating on his wife, granny-shagger, the whole 'that's what you call support' thing etc...he could easily be portrayed as a cnut, but do you think you'd be talking about him as a cnut when he's finished his career? I can't. He represents so much of what we're brought up to love about the game.
This is directly
not aimed at you, is slightly aimed at Boss(not to be a cnut), but it's a general point. I just don't see the point of having such a strong opinion about something you can't fully understand or appreciate.
Where do you get that from?
hell no