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Why is there ever a debate about who was the best Irish Sports person ever? *READ OP*

  • 22-07-2020 5:25pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 2,730 ✭✭✭


    It is Roy Keane

    There is no other Irish person close. Who ever is second, is a distant second

    He is the most influential sports person in Irish sporting History, and in British football history, and one of the most influential in World soccer history

    19 major titles

    An inspirational force of nature with the guile, skill and will to win at all costs, he almost demanded it, and he inspired his team to do it. One of a very select few Irish sports persons to excel in the heat of battle.

    He literally dragged Man utd to their first Champions league win. Putting in an inspirational performance against Juventus in the the semi finals when they were looking at certain defeat against. Diego Maradona was left slack jawed at the dominance of the performance

    This is a player that would have been the first pick on any team or country in the world.

    This is a guy who played in the biggest and most competitive sport on the planet

    His legend will live on for centuries

    Mod:

    partyguinness and Randy Archer do not post in this thread again.

    Constant back and forth bickering cleaned up. Anymore of this nonsense will result in further thread bans and/or other sanctions


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  • Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    No, he’s neither.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Katie Taylor could go the distance.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,730 ✭✭✭sxt


    No, he’s neither.

    Can you name an Irish sports star that would compare?


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Michelle Smith de Bruin


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭italodisco


    I hate to say it, as I can't stand him, but conor mcgregor would certainly be up there on the list


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,286 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Keane doesn’t even have as many Olympic medals as Jack B. Yeats.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    italodisco wrote: »
    I hate to say it, as I can't stand him, but conor mcgregor would certainly be up there on the list

    Couldn't think of a worse ambassador, McGregor is a feral knackbag.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Ap McCoy


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    italodisco wrote: »
    I hate to say it, as I can't stand him, but conor mcgregor would certainly be up there on the list




    Not a fcukin chance


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,730 ✭✭✭sxt


    italodisco wrote: »
    I hate to say it, as I can't stand him, but conor mcgregor would certainly be up there on the list

    In regards to the amount of people who play football vs the people who practise MMA World wide, I don't think he can be


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    James Cecil Parke


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Collie D wrote: »
    Keane doesn’t even have as many Olympic medals as Jack B. Yeats.

    Or Nobel prize


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,153 ✭✭✭ratracer


    Seán Kelly!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,552 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    George Best


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭joe40


    sxt wrote: »
    Roy Keane

    There is no other Irish person close. Who ever is second, is a distant second

    He is the most influential sports person in Irish sporting History, and in British football history

    Any objections?

    Yeah, you're probably right. The sport Keane played in, is played by millions of people world wide, so to be competitive at a high level in such a popular sport is indeed a great achievement.

    There are probably only a handful of elite MMA fighter so McGregor doesn't compare.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,117 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Edgware wrote: »
    Or Nobel prize
    You're mixing up your Yeatses there!


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,286 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    cdeb wrote: »
    You're mixing up your Keatses there!

    And you’re mixing your Yeats with your Keats :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,216 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Christy ring


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,117 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Collie D wrote: »
    And you’re mixing your Yeats with our Keats :)
    Damned ninja edit wasn't quick enough! :mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,198 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    By what measure? Henry Shefflin earned more silverware, captained more teams, and played for longer. Not international though.

    The question is, as both Keane and Shefflin would agree no doubt, pointless. And any answer would be incorrect as it could easily be logically dismantled. ‘Who was the best ever’ is a mindset lads carry over from the playground debates of which was the best dinosaur, and Oasis v Blur.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 15,216 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    The o Donovan brothers


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭DrGreenThumb82


    Jack Charlton. Won a World Cup. Beat that Roy Keane


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,117 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Clifton Hugh Lancelot de Verdon Wrottesley

    Came fourth in the skeleton in the Winter Olympics despite us not having any aul bit of snow since that one time yer man hit his head off the footpath on the news


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    Michelle Smith de Bruin

    Our most successful Olympian does get forgotten about in these lists.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,158 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    If there's no debate, it calls into question the logic of starting a thread about it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    endacl wrote: »
    By what measure? Henry Shefflin earned more silverware, captained more teams, and played for longer. Not international though.

    The question is, as both Keane and Shefflin would agree no doubt, pointless. And any answer would be incorrect as it could easily be logically dismantled. ‘Who was the best ever’ is a mindset lads carry over from the playground debates of which was the best dinosaur, and Oasis v Blur.

    Aye. 'Tis subjective.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,696 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    joe40 wrote: »

    There are probably only a handful of elite MMA fighter so McGregor doesn't compare.

    Yes, there’s only 5 elite MMA fighters in the world today.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,216 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Pillar caffrey


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,270 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Roy Keane is not even the best footballer. In this order
    1. Liam Brady
    2. Paul McGrath
    3. John Giles
    4. Roy Keane


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    italodisco wrote: »
    I hate to say it, as I can't stand him, but conor mcgregor would certainly be up there on the list

    BOllocks.


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