{"id":532703,"date":"2025-10-28T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/532703\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T06:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:30:21","slug":"roy-keane-says-he-regrets-taking-one-job-but-he-did-it-out-of-respect-for-celtic-hero-martin-oneill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/532703\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Keane says he regrets taking one job, but he did it out of ‘respect’ for Celtic hero Martin O’Neill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Roy Keane had just missed Martin O\u2019Neill\u2019s legendary Celtic spell when he moved to Glasgow in 2005. <\/strong><\/p>\n

But that didn\u2019t stop the duo from sharing the same dressing room in their careers, with O\u2019Neill<\/a> as the manager and Keane<\/a> as his assistant.<\/p>\n

The most notable one was their stint with the Republic of Ireland, including guiding the nation to the European Championships.<\/p>\n

But one spell that Keane, who won two trophies at Celtic<\/a>, wants to forget, and seemingly isn\u2019t happy about, is their spell together at Nottingham Forest and working under the controversial owner, Evangelos Marinakis<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"MartinPhoto by James Williamson \u2013 AMA\/Getty ImagesRoy Keane on working with Celtic hero Martin O\u2019Neill at Nottingham Forest<\/p>\n

Celtic fans would have heard about Marinakis because the Forest owner sacked Ange Postecoglou<\/a> after only 39 days in charge. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why that subject was brought up on the Overlap, and Keane was asked whether he had worked under the Greek owner before. <\/p>\n

When Keane answered that he did, the legendary midfielder explained that he wished that he didn\u2019t, but he only did it out of \u2018respect\u2019 for Celtic hero O\u2019Neill<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Paul Scholes:<\/strong> \u201cDid you work for him, Roy? Did you work for Evangelos Marinakis?\u201d<\/p>\n

Keane:<\/strong> \u201cYeah, I went in with Martin. Over a few months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scholes:<\/strong> \u201cDid you have any dealings with him?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Keane:<\/strong> \u201cOne. When I was going in there. But I only went in there to work with Martin. My respect for Martin, but I shouldn\u2019t have. But my loyalty and respect to Martin. Obviously, I made sure I had a get-out clause in the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scholes:<\/strong> \u201cDid you feel that as soon as you met him?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ian Wright:<\/strong> \u201cYou don\u2019t want to talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gary Neville:<\/strong> \u201cI thought you might have got on with him, to be honest with you. (Then laughs). It is sort of a good match.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wright: <\/strong>\u201cRoy doesn\u2019t want to talk about it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Keane:<\/strong> \u201cNo, no, no. You get vibes of people. Of course, chemistry. I was going in as the assistant manager; it\u2019s different. I went in there to work with Martin. I went in for a few months. My plan was always to try and help Martin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, Martin O\u2019Neill, his CV, when you think about it, and what he did at the club previously. How many games did you think Martin got at Forest?\u201d<\/p>\n

Overlap panel guess between 15-25 games. <\/p>\n

Keane: <\/strong>\u201c19, so if a manager like Martin is getting 19 games. What chance have you got? I had already left the club. I think they announced the new manager, I think, 24 minutes later, when Martin was still in the building. You are on about treating people properly. Blah, blah, blah.\u201d<\/p>\n

What happened with O\u2019Neill and Keane at Forest<\/p>\n

That Forest gig was the last time O\u2019Neill and Keane were in the dugout, as Sabri Lamouchi was the man who replaced the Irishman 18 minutes after he was sacked. <\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill lasted five months after moving to the City Ground in January 2019, and then was booted out days before the new season. <\/p>\n

By then, Keane had left, and it was suggested by The Guardian<\/a> in 2019 that O\u2019Neill had a \u2018falling out with the players.\u2019<\/p>\n

But as Keane touched upon, it\u2019s not about sacking O\u2019Neill; it\u2019s how Marinakis is going about it<\/a> because Postecoglou was booted out<\/a> moments after Forest\u2019s defeat to Chelsea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Keane had just missed Martin O\u2019Neill\u2019s legendary Celtic spell when he moved to Glasgow in 2005. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79673,1677,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-532703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-martin-oneill","10":"tag-roy-keane","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115450389193904202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}