If you've been active on social media at all in the last few days, chances are a typically blunt and scything Roy Keane quote will probably have popped up on your timeline, with (soon to be ex) Manchester United player Angel Di Maria the victim of a classic moment of Keano criticism.
Roy Keane has his say on the Di Maria situation... pic.twitter.com/vpEQ8PIe1E
— Top Corner (@HITCtopcorner) July 27, 2015
The above is an example, but many places with large followings on the likes of Facebook and Twitter, and even the London Times, have decided that this sounds like something Roy Keane would say, and therefore it must be true.
Actually, the quote is correct, only he didn't say it last weekend, he said it eight years ago, and he didn't say it about Angel Di Maria, he said it about Egyptian striker and complete chancer Mido, which can be found in an article from the Guardian in 2007:
If a player doesn't want to come to Sunderland then all well and good. But if he decides he doesn't want to come because his wife wants to go shopping in London, then it's a sad state of affairs. It's not a football move, it's a lifestyle move. It tells me the player is weak and his wife runs his life.
Not Angel Di Maria, but Mido.
So there you have it. Don't believe everything you read on the internet, and definitely don't believe everything you read on Facebook/Twitter.
via The Guradian... in 2007.
