A 2-2 draw against Hungary in Dublin was backed up by a shocking performance as Ireland were beaten 2-1 in Armenia, leaving World Cup qualifying hopes in tatters.<\/p>\n
Keane was one of many candidates the FAI spoke to before Heimir Hallgrimsson was appointed as Ireland boss, with the former Manchester United scathing in his criticism of how the appointment of the Icelandic coach was conducted.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah I spoke to them, they spoke to every Tom, Dick, and Harry, but even that was a farce,\u201d said Keane on the latest edition of the Stick To Football podcast, reflecting on his talks with the FAI.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe amount of people who have come out in the last six months that said they were offered the job. But that\u2019s the FAI, I\u2019ve said it before, they couldn\u2019t organise a piss-up in a brewery.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s sad, it\u2019s a long way back. But the FAI as well need to get their house in order.<\/p>\n
\u201cGet some proper people in there. Some people who interviewed me for the job, they\u2019re gone now, there\u2019s always people coming and going.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou hope this manager can get his act together and get some results, but it doesn\u2019t look good.<\/p>\n
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\u201cYou look at the manager and you fear for him. He\u2019s up against it. He\u2019ll be under huge pressure. The Irish media are really powerful over there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keane described the defeat in Armenia as \u2018a sore one\u2019, as he hinted he would still be interested to taking on the job of Ireland manager despite the lack of quality players available.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, you don\u2019t know until you are asked the question,\u201d he said when he was asked if he would take on the Ireland job. \u201cIt is not on my radar. I hate talking about jobs when there is somebody in there.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason you might take the job is because you think you might help the team. You could help them. You could get them organised, a bit of fight, a bit of spirit, although I know that\u2019s not always enough. They do lack real quality, of course.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor all the negatives, it is still a great job for somebody because you can go in and work in international football.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the flow of the job. I love the fact of having the players for those two weeks and there are a couple of games coming up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a different energy to your life, it is not that day-in, day-out.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you hope this manager can get his act together and get some results but it doesn’t look good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 2-2 draw against Hungary in Dublin was backed up by a shocking performance as Ireland were beaten…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,18142,19,17,2724,5788,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-57758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-fai","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kevin-palmer","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\/57758","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=57758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}