Robbie Keane

Got thumped by Abdoulaye Faye after reprimanding him for wearing flip-flops during a warm up. He's a professional and all that other stuff but there's so many other things that go into it these days it's hard to tell if that's enough all by itself.

Whether he has what it takes to be a good Manager/Head Coach or not - and I make no judgement on that myself - with his CV, Robbie HAS to get his next job right, otherwise his career in coaching will be over before it's hardly begun.

Which means he should avoid a club where the first team squad has been failing and so needs a major clear-out, which is the case with most vacancies which arise. Also a club where the Owner is a nutter and the whole structure between  manager and owner is unstable and unfit for purpose. Ideally he would be allowed to bring in his own assistants. Above all he needs a club where he will be given proper money and time to get it right.

Of course, very few clubs offer all of these things, if only because such clubs (Liverpool, M.City, basically) will already be happy with their current manager/head coach. And even if one such club should have a vacancy, there will be hundreds of better qualified applicants than Robbie.

But even if he were to settle for only half of those requirements, that would still rule out 90%+ of the clubs in England and Scotland! Which probably explains why he hasn't accepted any opoortunities he may have had to date. (That and the FAI money lol)

Anyhow, I personally wish him well.

I thought we played Oman later than that?

By nobody at Portsmouth id say tho as much as i love Robbie. There's more chance of one of us getting it than himself.

Life long dream and all that jazz