Monday Dec 17:
Roy Keane made a stupid comment about Van Dijk yesterday and that’s the main headline in sports media today. “Roy Keane calls Virgil Van Dijk arrogant - was he right? Let’s discuss”. This is the world we live in now. I don’t even think Keane believes anything he said yesterday, he’s just there performing a role. He did the same thing last season with that “big baby” shit he said about Robbo. To quote the man himself, “that’s his job”. He said what he said and today social media is awash with clips of it and chatter about whether he was right or not.
There wasn’t anything even remotely arrogant or disrespectful about what Van Dijk said. It maybe doesn’t look great when you see it written down and the quotes are used in isolation, but that interview was nothing. Only one team was trying to win, we were really frustrated with the draw and they were buzzing. All facts, and none of it presented with any commentary. He wasn’t mocking them.
The fact that Virgil has had to comment on it today is ridiculous. I like Keane, he’s brilliant on the Overlap and generally I like his stupid, meathead soundbites when he’s a pundit. If you enjoy it when he’s ripping on Maguire, De Gea, Rashford whoever, or laughing at Spurs, then there’s no point getting riled up when he comes out with this nonsense. He’s performing a role and Sky will be delighted with the traction it got. Shout out to Studge for getting under his skin all day though and for bringing up his lack of Champions League medals.
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