“You know what I liked about him? He didn’t mince his words.” It is coming up on 11 years since Roy Keane has full held the reins at a football club. Given how his managerial career started, few would have suspected he would have stayed away from taking the top seat. After hanging up his […]

3 years ago

“I wasn’t going to say, ‘Roy, what’s all that about?’” Luke Chadwick has recalled his car journey with Roy Keane after the Irishman’s red card against Manchester City in April 2001. The former Manchester United captain was sent off in the game for an infamous challenge on Alf-Inge Haaland. The pair had previous, and Keane […]

3 years ago

This is the story of Poo-gate, a scandal involving rival football clubs, a play-off semi-final, a turd and a Wilfried Zaha masterclass.

5 years ago

“Man United were playing their own game of Toro, which was essentially ‘stitch each other up’, and everyone else is playing the normal game…” Joe Cole and David James have recalled how Manchester United players would form their own unit when called up to represent the England team. Cole and James, who were speaking on […]

5 years ago

“If the division was decided on characters, I think we would have won it!” Back in 1990, before he set off for his Italia ’90 adventure with Ireland, Andy Townsend had a decision to make – Arsenal or Chelsea. Having jumped from non-league Weymouth to Southampton, in 1985, the midfielder cut his first division teeth […]

5 years ago

In the first episode of JOE’s new football podcast with Coral, Joe Cole and Alan Shearer join Tom Davis ahead of the international break

5 years ago