IRELAND SKIPPER ROBBIE Keane was named Senior International Player of the Year last night and sent a video message to those present at RTE studios as he was unable to attend.
The 33-year-old, who has been rested for Wednesday’s friendly against Serbia, was joined by LA Galaxy boss Bruce Arena for the link.
It’s unclear whether he was simply trying to stop himself from laughing at the gag which was about to follow, but Arena’s stiff facial expression was priceless.
Even Roy Keane afforded himself a little chuckle.
Have we ever had a better servant than Robbie Keane? Legend.
Eh, yes we have. Shay Given, Paul McGrath, Ronnie Whelan, Niall Quinn, should I keep going?
How are they better servants? On a par maybe. Surely not better though.
Ronnie Whelan had a poor international career as did many of his contemporaries at Liverpool despite been world class players.
Jack didn’t fancy Whelan, or anyone that was inclined to knock the ball around on the ground. Not that being in 2WC and EC squads is really that bad an international career, anyway.
Good trick Bruce does keeping every muscle in his face from moving
Fair play! Nice to see a bit of humour. Those awards can be dire shite the best of times.
Cringe.
Robbie has the appearances record for Ireland and the goal scoring record for Ireland. In fact he has obliterated the goal scoring one. Always disappoints me that some people won’t give him the credit he deserves.
I wouldn’t even mention Robbie Keane in the same breath as Paul Mc Grath, Kevin Moran, Ronnie Whelan or Liam Brady. Ok so he has the goal scoring record. I’d probably have it too if I had about 130 caps. I didn’t bother check how much he has. He’s good at scoring off the field though. His wife isn’t bad. I’ll probably get a pile of red thumbs for that but I don’t care
An award for Robbie Keane? What did he do?
8 goals in 9 games in 2013 maybe?…. 6 of which were in the qualifiers… out of 6 games played.
So we qualified ?