Wish he could caress my balls

It’s weirdly common for taller players, they move almost gracefully because of their long strides, compared to smaller players who are taking smaller, quicker, more aggressive strides. Players like Phillip Billing, Charles de Ketelaere, Yaya Toure. It’s really cool to watch😂

French players lol tall but elegant

Keane was miles better

@@JP3RS1984 Nah never

a bloody fine one too

So true. A primitive player😂😂😂👎👎

@@paulusjodhi7236hard to dislike his football

Quite impressive for a farmer to have won so many trophies while being the captain of the team then

And this "characters" is what Arsenal players pussies

lol, he get a lot of red cards as well

"Without hurting anyone" 😅😂

the french were great for arsenal at the time

Need to think ahead of Roy Keane's flying kicks.

Facts!

He was behind Roy Keane in terms of silverwares won.

@@RealistGunner To be honest, I didn’t know how good he was because I was still at my early days in my footballing interest but I knew Arsenal were very good in every department back then.

@@RealistGunner I have to disagree with that. I was mature enough that time to know that Rooney was a better all round player than Henry. Definitely.

nah PGMOL would stand by them and fuck Arsenal up before anything developed

@@paulie4450 who the fuck or what are you on about bollocks

Lol forgetting Vieira starting a fight in the tunnel in other games, then in the same game getting completely outplayed and outclassed by the better players.

@@lf67hh28 really outclassed really. Your opinion

@@stephenbuffery180 Several times over the years, yes. Facts dont lie.

Tbf he was like 6'3 and very strong. He had the physical makeup to have a distinct advantage. Brilliant player as well. But if he was Keane's size or even just a normal 6ft player. Doubt he would have been as able.

@@mattvanemden7573 6'4

@@zinowor Nah, he 6 ft 3

@@nelzsonjr if you can google 1 result of Vieira being 6'3 then he is 6'3

He gave keane scholes footballing lesson in this game

He wasn’t a hard man. Just played against 11 soft cunts week in week out.

Overrated player

People go by looks. He puts on stern face and pretends to be hard. Either shaves his head or (now) has grey hair so people mistakenly take him for some wise passionate sage. It’s annoying tbh. Keane was not a good footballer. He was a hacker and a cheater.

Not a hard man, just a scumbag

You mens are chattin out yer baksoides aen't yer? Keano captained United to the Treble and won more than Viera over his career.

😂😂😂

At least Scholes played beautifully the rest of the time. Keane didn't even offer that much.

@@CognizantCheddar Keane didn't offer much?

@@bottlewaddle6677 I saw Keane more as an enforcer rather than a true midfielder. Scholes handles the playmaking while Keane handles the opposing midfield. He showed some quality at times but he was more focused on roughing up the opposing team and with how lenient the bookings were back then, he essentially got away from having several match suspensions for accumulating too many cards.

​@@allainangcao28 Roy Keane the most underrated footballer in prem history. He cpuld ping them passes just as well as Scholesy and his positioning and awareness was exceptional. He won more trophies than Vieira and deservedly so too.

Who's the best player you've ever seen play in that position? Asking out of curiosity

@@downtoearth5443 honestly, it would have to be Vieira. I grew up watching Middlesbrough in the late 90s, early 2000s, and any time Arsenal came to the Riverside, it was like watching a midfield masterclass from Vieira. The way he held players off, effortlessly. The way he looked like he was jogging, while still completely dominating. The way he would play a killer pass - yet still while being labeled a defensive midfielder. He was something to behold.

@@bensmac5361 Yes. In his pomp, he was, as you quite rightly said, truly a sight to behold.

Keane can only tackle, no skills, dribble nothing.

@@hafizur91 Clown.

Power over the FA too.

Rubbish haha. I can tell that United ruined both your childhoods

You know nothing juventus 99 fool.

Conspiracy theories abound. Refs supporting man united like arsenal didnt get howard webb giving them handball goals😂just bitterness because we used to bully you back then. Stop crying 20 years later. The refs used to give bad decisions against united all the time

Viera isn’t even top 5 dms, hes dog shit. Got dominated when united beat Arsenal 6-1, where was viera then? Wheres his champions league? 😂😂😂

Back when football was interesting.

You just described everything Keane wasn't.

Who won it all

@@stevetaylor1412 so did Phil Neville mate 😂😂😂

Lmao

​@@stevetaylor1412 Alex Ferguson won it all. He could have won with an alternative player to Keane, but Keane probably wouldn't have won so much at a different team

Nonsense

I've never liked Keane. He's self-centred, cold, arrogant, and not as bright as he thinks he is.

Keane's box-to-box work ethic was the only thing truly world-class about him. Aside from that, he was a dirty hack that won by making the beautiful game look ugly.

@@greatbriton8425 same. The guy may be a great player on his best day but all I see when I look at him is a hooligan in football boots.

​@@benstonks9047 Go and have it out with him to his face and give him a piece of your mind.

​@@CognizantCheddar He was an upgrade on Vinnie Jones. He wasn't as brave as Vinnie, but was more talented for sure

Interestingly, it's the main theme song for GRAND THEFT AUTO III game

​@itsjoemofo haha, can't imagine that as GTA is a violent game this music is very chilled

​@itsjoemofo haha, can't imagine that as GTA is a violent game this music is very chilled

Vieira has more red cards than Keane ,and Pires won more penalty's (6) in one season ,than Giggs won in 20! (5!!)

@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 well maybe Pires was getting fouled. And my point is that Man U were masters of the little fouls that don’t get booked.

@@patinho5589 Lol 6 in 1 season v 5 in 20 seasons and your answer is "maybe Pires was getting fouled" Like Giggs wasn't? Over TWENTY seasons?!

@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 I don’t know. I haven’t seen the footage of the penalties and the penalty claims.

@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 pires was brilliant 🤩

That's why they suffering now

Nonsense. Thuggish with Van Nistelroy, Beckham, Giggs?

Arsenal fans when they had Keown ,Adams and Wright breaking people's bones to succeed ; "aaaah men's football" Arsenal fans when Wenger stopped buying players suited towards the English game ; "Man U were thugs ,the ref's were biased towards them"

What drugs do you take?

Next time you’re in Manchester, I’ll I’ll get some crack for your pipe sir.

He could NEVER bully Viera. Viera would KILL him in a real fight!

Keane also stayed clear of Duncan Ferguson xD.

Keane was a fake hard man .. he needed micah richards to protect him off the field when he got headbutted 😂 not so tough without protection of FA & fergie’s refs

@@TheChampIsHere_ what he did to Halaands Dad was unforgiveable.

@@michaelbailey8729 especially as if you watch that,haaland doesn't break keanes leg,he does it himself,trying to foul him.no wonder haaland,who would have had no idea rk's leg was broken, went over and shouted at him.what keane did in revenge should have been a life ban...

Bollocks. Stop making conspiracy theories up mate, you sound deranged. United used to ger awful decisions against them, you wont remember that tho as it doesn’t fit your agenda

When did viera tacklee like that? Have you seen when man united beat arsenal 6-1 and keane absolutely dominated viera all day🤣🤣wen has viera ever beat united like that🤣🤣🤣

The fact that you say that means you didn’t watch football back then and just watched these compilations made by Arsenal fans. Both teams were playing the same and playing tough with fouls that in todays game would be reds was the norm. Just watch the match from Community Shield from 2003 when both Neville and and Cole got a yellow for fouls in the first 2 minutes. You’ll see how both teams were playing tough. Also watch FA Cup final from 2005 and tell me Lauren didn’t actually do worse vs young Ronaldo. He had like 8 fouls that today would at least be a yellow. Also Vieira could have seen a red from the fouls on Ronaldo. But of course you are only watching what it suits you as Arsenal fan.

As an itaian football fan who's been at Old Trafford several times and sympathizes for both Arsenal and United, i don't love theories about coaches or teams corrupting referees or similar stuff (that has been proven to be true only about one team and that's juventus). I do think that Man Utd's status as most iconic english football team at some points of football history has contributed to them being treated a bit more softly than other teams by some refs. But that has been known to happen to many important and influential clubs. That said, anybody who says Roy Keane was better than Vieira and talks about ucl wins and shit, doesn't know much about football in my opinion.

Roy Keane isnt an angry small man

@@DCescoriaHe is

@@MB-dk5pq Yeah, he would, but compared to class such is Vieira, Keane is nothing

It was normal back then he actually went for the ball most of the time

You could say the exact same about viera, this was just a bad game from united & arsenal were insane that season. Keane pocketed viera quite a few times tho.

Seems that everyone forgets that Keane was playing against the likes of Vinnie Jones, David Batty and Rob Lee on weekly basis

@@ocearbhaill3894 Name me ONE player Viera tried to or put out of football? You can pretend all you want that Vieira was not judged by a different standard, if he made half the fouls Scholes did I could probably understand

@@MrAllenm94 Roy Keane lol?

I've never heard anyone but the most rabid ManU supporters claim Keane was better than Vieira 😀 Vieira was always the superior footballer, by quite a margin I'd say. It's just that Keane always had Scholes next to him, who was so versatile that you could afford to have a (comparatively) low-skill wrecking ball next to him. They made a good partnership, but the thing is, Vieira would shine no matter who was next to him, whereas Keane would not have.

@@Jugistoteles The one game with the bust up in the tunnel before the match Man u won 4-2. Only time Keane could ever say he got the better of Vieira, despite the head to head being slightly in favour of Keane for wins (7v5, which could easily be reversed if there were some decent refereeing in some of those encounters). On paper, they had similar careers. 7 top flight leagues, a UCL, but Vieira also had a World Cup, another WC final, and Euro 2000, AND was the beating heart of the Invincibles. Clear winner here is Vieira, who is, clearly one of the best ever DMs. Better than Kante or Makele. And daylight between Vieira and Keane.

@@emilpindur9400 Vieira never won the UCL. He was a bit part player in the World Cup win and was a sub throughout. Go on about Scholes being the real driving force all you want, but surely you've got to apply the same reasoning to Zidane in the 98 World Cup, plus all the other world class team mates that carried him to victory? Keane played for Ireland FFS so of course he's not going to do as well. Also, other than that 4-2 you mentioned, wasn't there a game where Keane scored twice in a 2-1 victory at Arsenal? Pretty sure he got the better of him that day too, not to mention when United beat Arsenal SIX - 1, and most other occasions TBH. Keane was the beating heart of the treble winners (who lost less games that season than the self titled 'invincibles' did in 03/04 and won 3x the trophies), a team that won three in a row, 7PLs in 9 years and broke records for points and winning with most games to spare - none of which Vieira did. Also - head to head in the PL - it’s Keane 5-3 vieira, and Keane missed one of those seasons through injury. Arsenal fans like to moan about refs, but you got away with murder yourselves - the 'battle of Old Trafford' in 2003 being a prime example. Plus David Ellary did all he could to win you that semi in 99 - but Vieira won it in the end - by passing it to Giggs

​@@Jugistoteles "I've never heard anyone but the most rabid ManU supporters claim Keane was better than Vieira" Laughable that you call Keane a " (comparatively) low-skill wrecking ball". Such nonsense. Keane was the all around superior football player. Scored more goals and a better passer to boot. Keane was an attacking midfielder in his early days at Forest and was the clear better passer and assist man. He scored 33 goals in 154 games for Forest, over three seasons from the age of 19 to 21, with far less of a skilled cast around him than Vieira had at Arsenal. How many goals did Vieira score? at that age? 10 Goals in 173 games for Arsenal (his first 4 seasons, I even gave Vieira an extra year and season, to make it look closer) Vieira was powerful, stronger and better at defending. Fact remains....Roy Keane scored more goals with his head as well. Keane's goals powered United in the Champions League two years straight....Vieira rarely ever scored in the CL. Vieira scored a whopping 2 goals in 66 European Games for Arsenal. Keane scored 14 goals in 84 European Games for Man Utd. At age 30 Keane had played total games = 472 - 77 goals At age 30 Vieira had played total games = 523 - 43 goals (Keane nearly doubles Vieira in terms of goals per game at this point) Vieira should have been scoring 10 goals a year with his head, from corners and free kicks with his strength, athleticism, power and height. Frankly it's embarrassing that he did not. People love to point to the Vieira/Keane battles....fact is, Vieira was 5 years younger, and did not start to get the edge on Keane till post 2001, when Keane was 29 and had gone through severe knee and hip injuries. Arsenal fans always seem to forget the Keane pre-2000, when trying to assess the Viera-Keane rivalry. " It's just that Keane always had Scholes next to him" Oh, always? Is that so? Scholes did not even finally secure the starting midfield spot next to Keane full time until 1997-1998 and Keane missed half that season as you may recall. Before that, he never started more than 16 games in a season and was shuttled around at striker as well in his first three years. You seem to forget, that Keane played for Forest from 90 to 93.... Keane arrived at United in 1993, displacing Bryan Robson.....he had Paul Ince beside him for the first two years, then Nicky Butt was his primary partner in 95-96 & 96-97. 98-99 was the first year that Keane/Scholes were the full first choice pairing, with both healthy. "Vieira would shine no matter who was next to him, whereas Keane would not have" Really? Keane was shining with Nicky Butt next to him, who provided little in the way of attacking capability. Vieira was in full decline by the beginning of the 2004 season at only 28, and he had Gilberto Silva next to him, who was hardly a poor player. Did Vieira shine at Juve with Emerson next to him? Nope. He was only 29 when he got there. and Inter? He was 30 when he got there....How'd he do with Figo, Cambiasso and Stankovic next to him? He got beaten out for the starting role by Olivier DaCourt, and was never even a full time starter again. How about the 2002 world cup? 26 years old....in his prime....total failure without Zidane next to him. Why did he not stamp his authority on that World Cup? 2006 world cup, still only 30...totally average, even with superstars around him. Average in the group stage at best. Good vs Spain in the 1st round knockout, Decent in the quarters vs Brazil, Average vs Portugal in the Semis, Let Materazzi outfight him for Italy's equalizer in the final, poor, then limped off in the 60th minute into the sunset How about France in general....he had legends next to him....Keane had virtually nothing with Ireland....and yet, Vieira had 101 caps and 6 goals for France, while Keane had 9 goals in 67.....and had to shoulder far more of the attacking load in central midfield than Vieira did with the attacking superstars around him. Get over it....Vieira was a great footballer, powerful, strong, ferocious and a driving force....but simply not as good all around as Keane.

@USCFlash Cool story but you, for most of your essay, seem to confuse player ability with goals scored. You also make several erroneous claims / questionable interpretations but I won't go into them because this is KZfaq comment section and it's Christmas over here. All that's not to say you didn't make some good points there. You wrote *a lot*, by the way! 😁 A part of me hopes you copy-pasted some of that from something you've wrote elsewhere before. But anyway. This is as much as I'll engage over here - thought I'd say that to save further time for you. Why I'm even is responding is to acknowledge the work you put in (I don't usually respond because of kids, busy job etc and there's hardly any time for this). So, Happy Holidays if this is a holiday you're celebrating!

Aged well

He would be sent off every match.

no he'd get a fist in his feckin' gob and whimper away

Keane is better proper leader 🇮🇪🇮🇪.. all the French are good for is cheating 🖐 henry

who says keane of all people better than viera 😂😂 that's cap mate

🤣🤣🤣 out

@@GOD-zt6sf Why is it cap ?🙄.Theres a load of pros I’ve heard say it ,just cos you haven’t doesn’t mean it’s not true .

U expect keane to win the world cup witb Ireland? 🤣🤣 even messi couldnt do that. And noone is calling Keane or veira the goat. Messi gets that praise so the burden of winning trophies is greater. I hope this clears things up. But for u to be confused by this you must be incredibly stupid so i think you are probably still baffled

At least Thomas Partey is trying to some degree.

@@rarefootball10 Partey is good, finally we have a midfielder of that profile who is a colossus in the middle of the park. But even still, he cannot lace Paddy’s boots. Paddy rarely got injured, he was a man of steel. Proper captain. But regardless, hopefully Partey does it for us this year!

Except to Keane obviously..

😆😆😆@@rarefootball10

its from gta 3

pundit? useless like his manager stints

No probs, Solomon. At least you got to watch Sunil Chhetri

@@downtoearth5443 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Not really. One of them playing football, the other trying to hurt his fellow professional. Smh

@@maltlickytexas shut it marry poppins football was more physcial back then. You had to get stuck in

Roy keane bossed viera about when he beat him 6-1, won more medals, and had a better career. All round better footballer, viera was mediocre. Not good enough

Premier league was better than serie a and la liga back then you fool😂😂bless ya

There's a documentary where his own players say he used to tell them to play dirty

@@danymuembo9238 if I'm not mistaken even the reason David Beckham hit the shoes was a game between Arsenal vs Arsenal when he told the players play rough and dirty game with arsenal then becks said something after 1st half , correct me if I'm wrong

Viera actually got more red cards in the EPL dummy. So some research first before posting nonsense

Underrated comment 😂

Pogba suffers from having the most stupid sounding surname in world football. It’s like a word my 2 year old would come Up with 😊

​@@RaferJeffersonIII french names are weird

@@Fifa20340 the French are just basically weird

Pogba nowhere near as technically good

Keane bullied viera when united beat arsenal 6-1 .don’t remember arsenal giving united a beating that bad?