{"id":42317,"date":"2025-09-04T04:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/42317\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T04:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:30:11","slug":"conor-mckeon-almost-20-years-after-retiring-as-a-player-roy-keanes-appeal-goes-on-as-we-hang-on-his-every-utterance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/42317\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McKeon: Almost 20 years after retiring as a player, Roy Keane\u2019s appeal goes on as we hang on his every utterance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">His playing days may be over nearly two decades but the 54-year-old has a commercial and public appeal umatched by many of his peers\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roy Keane and Ian Wright on an episode of 'The Overlap' podcast\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/95b32361-31e6-4ad7-8d39-c604fd9cf65f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Roy Keane and Ian Wright on an episode of &#8216;The Overlap&#8217; podcast<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Diadora. Remember them? Roberto Baggio. Marco van Basten. Italian leather. Minimalist style. The thinking man\u2019s boot. Your sleek, understated alternative to the more meat-and-two-veg range; your Puma Kings, your Umbro Specialis. Peak mid-\u201990s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Diadora ruled Italy when Serie A was the best league, with the best teams and the best players. Weah, Totti, Signori, Inzaghi, Vieri. Golazzo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His playing days may be over nearly two decades but the 54-year-old has a commercial and public appeal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[31891,18,19,17,20,5788,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-42317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-conor-mckeon","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-roy-keane","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}