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Brian Reade Column: Football: It's the name of the game.


Byline: Brian Reade Brian Reade is an award-winning writer who has two weekly opinion columns, one on sport, in the Daily Mirror. He is a left-wing republican with very outspoken views, and has interviewed many well known people, including Mohammed Ali.  

I AM pleased Roy Keane Roy Maurice Keane (born 10 August, 1971 in Mayfield, Cork City, Ireland) is an Irish former professional footballer and the current manager of English Premier League club Sunderland.  has been taken to task for attacking sections of Manchester United fans whom he claims don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)

"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party.
 "how to spell football, never mind understand it".

They CAN spell it Roy. It's just that most of the people who populate Old Trafford these days spell it "futbol", "fussbol", "faisbool", "fursbal" and a word I can't type on this keyboard because the fans on the Beijing coaches use a different alphabet.

So give 'em a break eh, Roy?

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Title Annotation:Sport
Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Nov 11, 2000
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