Richard Keyes seemingly doesn’t know when he’s beaten.
A few days back, the disgraced former Sky Sports presenter took to Twitter to criticise Jamie Carragher – who’s labelled Arsenal’s players ‘cowards’ for their abysmal performance against Crystal Palace – shown on Monday Night Football…
Carragher ended him by retorting: ‘Interested in what your verdict is on why you failed to keep your job at Sky? Not heard you mention it before,’ which got over 16,0000 retweets.
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Keyes should have accepted the lighthearted comeback but instead took to his infamous blog and made endless sarcastic remarks which pointed to Carra’s hypocrisy.
He wrote: “All today’s young ‘analysts’ had bad games – some many many more than others – but they seem to have forgotten that. Analyse the game – stop name calling if someone is having a bad time on the pitch.
“Which brings me to my point. I was really disappointed to see Jamie Carragher call Arsenal’s players ‘cowards’ after the game at Palace. ‘Cowards’? There was a time in British history that kind of insult would bring men to arms at dawn in a pistol fight for honour. No. I’m sorry, those players could be accused of many things on the other night – but cowardice? No. No. No.
“Which brings me to my point. I was really disappointed to see Jamie Carragher call Arsenal’s players ‘cowards’ after the game at Palace. ‘Cowards’? There was a time in British history that kind of insult would bring men to arms at dawn in a pistol fight for honour. No. I’m sorry, those players could be accused of many things on the other night – but cowardice? No. No. No.
“My advice to today’s analysts – stick with talking about the football. Have an empathy with a player or players that are short on confidence and struggling to find their game. Respect our wonderful product. Remember what it was like when you played. We all still need each other. Cherish our wonderful sport. Yes, if required criticise, but make it constructive. We’re turning people off with a constant string of vitriol. Love football and it will love you back – keeping some of us working and all of us fascinated.”
Carragher is rated as one of the best pundits on British televisions because he isn’t afraid to say it how he sees it. Arsenal are in turmoil and our former centre-back thinks it’s a character issue, not a footballing one.
As a result, he’s entitled to call it in that manner, without high-horse Keyes going at him about it…
If there’s anyone who probably shouldn’t take the moral high-ground, it’s Keyes.
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