Keane's Sixteen - "Are You In Or Out?"
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 9:41AM So according to The Sun (via 606 and rehashed on various blogs before the lazy red top hacks decided to latch onto anything anti-Spurs post-City thrashing) sixteen first team players have 'heaped shame on the club' by having a secret party in Dublin behind the back of Harry.
Tabloid gold, jumping all over this because Harry 'cancelled' Xmas stating there would be no festive party for the players as football and football only would take priority. The Dublin trip happened prior to that statement. A golfing trip (that Redknapp was aware of) that was actually spent in a bar and nightclub thanks to party organiser Robbie Keane who took £2000 a piece to fix things up. Maybe that's why he stood by the tunnel shaking the hands of the players as they run out for the second half. A sort of guard of honour moment for Keane's Keyser Söze bluff with the usual suspects guilty of leaving Spurs shamed, so shamed, so very very shamed.
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Visit The Sun's website to see the photos. Yes, there are photos on The Suns website. That's the photos of the bar and club. Taken at some random point in time during the day. There's also a photo of a private jet flying through the sky. Not the actual private jet used by some of the players but a good likeness for it. It's damning evidence.
If the players trained brilliantly the day later, then if the 16 did go out on the lash (if anyone in Dublin has mobile pics of the players or perhaps the Dublin newspapers covered the story and the paparazzi took snaps of drunken dentist chair action - then feel free to link/share) they didn't appear to show it the next day in training. And losing 1-0 to Wolves had more to do with football than hangovers.
If you want to be all Mulder about it and claim that players did get smashed out their heads and the matter was dealt with behind closed doors (hence Harry's 'no Xmas party' statement 48 hours after Dublin) then that's fine. It's all been confirmed by a Spurs insider, so its practically fact. And if the club punished players, then we'd have heard something about it no doubt.
So in conclusion, it sounds like they went to Ireland, played some golf (or didn't) and then went to a bar and a club before travelling back in time for training the next morning and showing no sign of drink fatigue.
It was apparently a 'audacious plot planned with military precision'. What was? Travelling to Dublin for a couple of drinks and then travelling back home again? Ooh. That must have taken some serious blue-printing to get it organised. Keane's 16. It's a little bit like Oceans but with no casino. No females either. Gio and Bale didn't travel, apparently preferring to stay home and wash their hair.
Additional footnote; the story remained on ice until after Spurs beat City.
GTFI.
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Reader Comments (46)
It's in the Sun for christs sake. Amazes me how retarded some spurs fans are to read that pile of shite. Can we not track them down and make them support the Woolwich?
Typical tabloid non story. Spurs do well so lets exaggerate and make it sound like half of Dublin was potentially ruined in the wake of a Keane organised piss-fest.
Good morning Sir Spooky of Levy.
I read this in the rag this morning. How I laughed. I'm betting Harry knew about this and sanctioned a quiet drink on the sly. ' Just make sure you don't get caught'. And they haven't really been caught because from the looks of it nothing actually happened out there. Read the story on their website. Plenty of hearsay and nothing more.
Its The Sun. Its a no brainer.
Wouldn't put it past Keane and co to have gone out in Dublin but the distinct lack of photos and incidents suggests this is a major non-starter.
No Bale, Pav, Wilson or Gio?
WIlson - good boy, professional, doesn't fraternise with the kids
Pav - probably at home emailing Roma pleading with them to sign him
Gio - can't afford to fall off the wagon again
Bale - too monkey-like with the barnet and ears. would scare locals
'..before travelling back in time for training the next morning and showing no sign of drink fatigue.'
Not quite true; after their performance against Everton, they had a well deserved day off on the Wednesday.
having been re-located to the fair isle for ten years i can shed some light on these two fine establishments. gibneys in malahide is very respectable middle class boozer in an expensive tourist trap, hardly the location for a right jollyup, mrs brown. however copper face jacks is. slapper faced jacks, as the locals will have it,retains that last throw of the dice aura. a haunt for nurses and police that could be found anywhere in provincial england/essex.so, an ideal place for a footballers xmas 'dinner'. as is the custom i can imagine woodgate/keano and king rolling out on to harcourt st, trousers half mast, straight to the chipper from where they will then chase the kebab to the taxi rank. hardly earth shattering news, well done lads for sorting it out and also to redknapp for brushing off the story.
Theres nothing wrong with a Spurs fan perusing the Sun and all the other tabloids. The only way this is detrimental is if the person reading the 'article' believes it word for word.
Spooky is bang on with this. Would the article have been as interesting in the NOTW after the loss to Wolves? Not really, that would've simply aided as a ready made excuse for a poor performance. But after a decent performance (I'm personally not too happy with alot of the sloppiness) against the future champions © (guaranteed because of their infinite budget) we obviously needed to be brought down a peg or two. What better way than by causing a rift in a team obviously brimming with spirit(s) and playing for eachother?
I'm so UTTERLY ashamed, nay REPULSED at 'Keane's Sixteen'
AM I FU*K!?!?
Who gives a toss? The reason we lost to Wolves is because they played an almost perfect game of 'parking the bus' and we struggled to break them down. In football that sometimes happens.
THEN we go and batter City into only their second defeat of the season, keep a clean sheet and our second string CB line up keeps close to £100m worth of talent deathly silent.
The Sun can go and suck balls for all I care. A no mark paper written and mass produced for no mark idiots.
Bring on the Blackburn!
COYS
Fucking tabloids
No one at the club other than the players was told about this little excursion (which, incidentally was NOT a golf trip) and therefore contravened the supposed ban on this sort of activity (which was never actually formally set but Harry discouraged the players in press interviews only) I'm told some players were quite clearly still drunk at training on the Wednesday. Harry's comments are pure spin designed to protect the players I'm afraid. Thank god the residents of the Emerald Isle haven't quite got the nack of this new fangled modern camera phone technology yet.
Agree that there is no real story here and The Sun are clearly having a slow day. However, the real story was in the performance against Wolves where we seemed ncredibly slow and sluggish, whilst speed of thought seemed to be at an absolute mimumum. Is it too much to ask that blokes who are paid in excess of £40k per week don't drink for 9 months of the year/ Oh and Jenas havning 'food poisoning?' All the players eat together at lunch and I doubt they try anything particularly risque in the kitchen at home. Either JJ had alcohol poisoning, being one of the party-boy ring leaders that he is, or he ate a particularly dodgy kebab on the way home.
I'm not reacting to The Sun. I heard about this days ago. Thought the club had squashed the story but obviously The Sun needed to fill some empty space.
The Sun + Sky = Murdoch
Move along, nothing more to see here.
Don't always agree with your ramblings but i think you're on the button here.
Custis and chums have presumably spent the best part of a week going through bins and going door to door through Dublin to check if any young girls fancied claiming they were gang-raped.
This is as big a non-story as I can remember about this club for a good few years.
"THE CLUB HAS BEEN SHAMED!"
No, we really haven't....
Slow news day in footie world at the current bun today clearly! If this is club 'shame' then I'd hate to think what 'devastating news' might be to the club? 'Daniel Levy accidently eats "pigs in blankets" on christmas day'?
The Sun love to hate us, just to show they aren't biased because 'arrys on the payroll. It keeps the mugs down the road buying their pile of tosh (even if they will be none too pleased with two EPL managers having a pop at whinger insame said paper).
Doesn't this sort of thing happen all the time though? Or maybe it doesn't. Maybe it only happens at clubs like Spurs. Fox Mulder - you've done more in that post than The Sun managed in their article which is why I still can't quite believe the players would be so stupid. I know they've been stupid in the past but if they've gone behind Harry back again after the King/Crouch/Woodgate nights out then shame.
Has Robbie been on the bench since the Dublin trip? Is that why he was so keen to shake hands and look to be making an effort?
WE NEED A SCULLY IN HERE !!
Fox Mulder may have nailed it.
Jenas. Sick. Suspicious.
Harry shrugging smells of a carpet sweep.
Then again, there is as much hear say in his post as there is in The Suns.
Papparazzi would have spotted it,
so it must be shit..................just like we played against WOLVES............3 Days later trounced Citeh as much as we out played Aston Vanilla (the team everybody licks) and let Neverton off the hook.
Need I say more
COYS
Fox Mulder,
'I'm told some players were quite clearly still drunk at training on the Wednesday.'
Redknapp says they had a day off on wednesday. Maybe he meant an off day.
I'm not sure who is less believable in all this: Redknapp, The Sun, or the person you were 'told' by.
The players went to Dublin. If it was on the sly, they got found out and its been dealt with, but anyone would think we've lost 3-0 at home the way the papers are droning on about this. The fact this story originated in 606 and then got copy and pasted onto various message boards and blogs and then still doesn't get printed in the press says it all.
Harry probably knew about it. Jenas might have had a dodgy kebab and that's the cause of embarrassment. Which is why Harry is just brushing it all off. We beat City 3-0 so fuck off red tops.
I'm told that Jenas' 'illness' was due to a large an unsavoury portion of Irish cock served up by a back street (pun intended) rent boy. I'm told he was feeling a little bit sore but happy.
They went to Ireland because why would Irish paps give a Donkeys about Spurs players having a night out. In fact they most likely wouldn't have even been hanging around outside waiting for a picture like they do in London. I can't imagine there is much call for celebrity paps in Dublin - at least not as high voluke as in London/Essex etc.
Not trying to stir up trouble but if the night out had even a 1% effect on the performance against Wolves then that's 1% too many.
"given the day off on Wednesday?" Not sure if that's true but if you were Harry and half your squad rocked up to training steaming wouldn't you give them the day off too. No point in training when everyone's wrecked is there?
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What a pratt you are FOX MULDER.
Unless someone can provide vomit or photographic evidence of drunken slurring then I can not believe that this took place.
Niko Krancjar Superstar, comes from Croatia, plays like Ginola
THAT IS ALL!
Now let's forget about this Ireland golf trip shit and start focusing on Blackburn Rovers.
Robin Van Persie took my sister man. She was just 6 years old. And he took her.
I'm still haunted by my memories - A bright white light. Arsene Wenger creeping into my room. The Anal probe.
LOL
My cousin's, friend's, dog walker's, ex-tennis partner told me that the bar entertainment was Elvis... The REAL Elvis... There might be something to Mulder's crazy theories... Wenger and Sol Campbell were there too, just ask my source - 'Deep Throat'
Sorry, I konw its been stupidly sensationalised, but am I the only one who still thinks professional football players shouldnt drink during the season?
I feel crap for days after a heavy one.
This is all old news. Harry Hotspur broke the story last week :-)
If this is club 'shame' then I'd hate to think what 'devastating news' might be to the club? 'Daniel Levy accidently eats "pigs in blankets" on christmas day'?
Tricky is a genius and The Sun and The Mirror are cocks.
What you meant to say is that Harry Hotspur copy and pasted it from somewhere else then dressed it in drivel and passed it off as his own slice of ingenious ITK tittle tat.
The Sun. Where lies come true.
Looks like Harry was not in the know after:
From the Beeb:
Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp says he will "severely" punish the Spurs players that flew to Dublin for a secret Christmas party last week.
Redknapp had banned any celebrations and did not know his squad travelled to Ireland four days before their 1-0 home defeat by Wolves on 12 December.
"It's being dealt with internally," Redknapp told BBC Radio 5 live.
"We will get Saturday's game [against Blackburn] out of the way and then, believe you me, it will be sorted out."
More follows.
Didn't he announce the ban after the Wolves loss?
So, Harry brushes it under the carpet, understates its importance, the story spreads from The Sun to the rest of the papers, and now Harry is using words like 'severely'.
Praise the ITK people who feel the necessity to spread the message of good will in the first place.
The infidels win the day again.
Reckon Harry is keeping up appearances?
Harry is saying what he's saying because he has to be seen making those types of noises after he's banged on about boozing.
It's already been dealt with.
If The Sun and company can BS their way through this story, so can we.
The club need to get some better PR people to help cover stuff like this up... Maybe we should hire the ones that the Arse use to cover up their satanic sex parties with little boys.... You heard it here firist! First stop DML, next stop Sun Front Page!!!!
Good to hear Keano was in the same form in Dublin as he is on the pitch, no birds thats due to him "not being able to score in a brothel presently!!"
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"...Aston Vanilla (the team everyone licks)..."
Uh. What? Not to knock a fellow Yid but they are hardly relegation material this year. They've beaten Chelsea, United and Liverpool this season and we managed a draw with them because they fell apart in the second half.
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Thats why I love it when spurs win. Not because we are further up the league table but I dont have to read about DAVSPURS' (generally incoherent) rubbish. Surely if ther was some kind of conspiracy theory, Mulder or Scully would have sorted it out? COYS!!!!!!