Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has dismissed criticism by Roy Keane in which the Irishman said Arsenal players were too interested in taking selfies and how their hair looked to win things.
“Arsenal have some really good players – some good characters who roll their sleeves up,” he said, “but they also have one or two players who are more interested in selfies and six-packs, guys who are trying to get their pictures taken every day of the week.
“Instead of focusing on the Premier League, it’s all about how their bodies look, how their hair is, more so than winning football matches.”
It was all a bit ‘old man yells at cloud‘ stuff from the former Manchester United man, and Oxlade-Chamberlain has roundly rebuffed Keane’s rant as that of a man struggling to adapt to the world we live in.
“It’s a new era, isn’t it?”, he said. “Some people do it, some don’t. We’re serious about winning trophies.
“Personally, and I can speak for the rest of the squad, we’ve been serious every single year I’ve been at the club about winning trophies.
“You can see that on the pitch. A lot of people don’t see when we lose and go through tough times how upset and disappointed we are. We’ve always wanted to win trophies and in the last years we’ve won a few. This season we want to go that one better.”
And having scored the winner against Chelsea on Sunday, the Ox is looking for a run of fitness which will help him achieve his potential.
“I feel good,” he said. “You know what football is like – you can never speak too soon, so I take each game as it comes. I’m putting in the work off the pitch and fitness gives you the platform and allows you to do the things you want to do. So, fingers crossed I have better luck this season.
“The medical and fitness teams have been really good, not just for me but all the boys through pre-season. I believe we’re all at a good level physically.
“We’re not 100% there yet – that comes a few weeks into the season but they’ve done a really good job on us and I feel good. Fingers crossed we stay in good nick and it gives us a good chance for the season.”
Roy Keane will say anything to try and stay relevant
And fail whilst doing so.
Relevant he is not,….. he sounds like a grumpy old man, angry because everything is now passing him by. and the Ox should have told him to shut the fuck up or “get with the program man!”….
put him in a room with Joey Barton and Ramires then throw them a ball !
I fucking love him!
Roy Keane?
Who’s Roy Keane?
That’s exactly what I was wondering.
Roy Keane is that guy who sits in the kitchen at all the parties. He’s the guy who proclaims to an ever dwindling crowd of listeners how much better and more fun it was in his day. All around him will be happy people having fun, celebrating, drinking, dancing, laughing, shagging and just having the fun to end all fun but it’s wasted on him because he knows how much better it was in his day. Now if only everyone would just stop doing what they are doing and do it his way. Yeah, those damned kids, no respect or… Read more »
I don’t think Roy Keane goes to parties.
He takes his dog out for a walk, that’s about as much socialising as he does.
If only the social media outlet had been there for Keane in ’99. Then he might have played in the European Cup Final rather than being banned for being an over aggressive nasty little cunt.
Roy Keane must just sit down. Finger crossing is the in thing now, not six packs. COYG!
Roy Keane must just sit down…on a cactus.
A manly man like him should relish the prickles.
Christ, for a minute there I really thought that Gandalf had let himself go.
2015/16 is gonna be the year of the OX.
roy’s clock still dates back to the 16th century, cant really fault him.
To just think that people abused Wenger in the transfer windows for signing this guy once. 16 million pounds for this guy is a bargain when you have got Sterling being sold for 50 million pounds. I will take the Ox each and every day over Sterling and for me he has already paid back a good chunk of those 16m by going past 4 United players with a single shake of hips and leaving Blind flat on his arse… That was perhaps one of the best moments in the last year FA cup..
That’s odd, I could have sworn the players who “were too interested in taking selfies and how their hair looked” have already bagged two F.A. Cups and two Community Shields…
Nobody should give a crap about what that failure of a manager thinks. For what he did to Haaland years ago he should of been jailed. I’m embarrassed I come from a country where he’s still given employment. Maybe what he wants is for us to not show up and walk our dogs.
Roy keane must be so ashamed of himself on Sunday as well as some ESPNFC pundits
Roy keane is just angry he was stuck playing in an era where shorts resembled elephants ears and shirts that could pass for the popes rob.
i wouldn’t mind him.
Roy Keane seems more interested in arsenal than his career! Mug
In fairness, Roy Keane Really doesn’t deserve a response. Snub him. It’s more painful. Remember how wenger snubbed Mourinho and he was crying to the press like my 2years old cousin?
this career-ending (remember Haaland?), dirty old cunt needs putting in his place, just keep dick-riding chelsea and leave us alone you twisted evil being ….excellent job the OX!!
‘They didn’t have selfies in my day’ they didn’t have iPhones then u cantankerous old cunt!
They did have cantankerous old cunts though. The kind that go on and on for a long time. Like Roy Keane.
Keane is also the man who said after a match that ‘Arsenal shouldn’t be celebrating beating a second division team’… We were celebrating the fact that we’d reached the FA Cup Final. Cunt.
no point there to begin with, no one cares more about their looks than say christiano ronaldo, yet absolutely no one works harder to be the best than ronaldo. but what do i expect from a spud fan…
That is a great point about Ronaldo actually, I hadn’t thought of that. Completely undercuts Keane’s argument.
What a fabulous, mature young man the Ox is. Good on him….really hope he has a great season.
Am not surprised that Roy Keane is against selfie because he will be shocked to see how he looks in a selfie.
We want the EPL. Wenger wants it too.
Roy Keane probably never had abs in his life.
In fairness he was a fitness freak – i’d imagine he had abs. in fact his abs probably had abs But he was too focused on winning titles he never once looked downwards in case he noticed his own body… Some men you see are heterosexual and you need to keep them away from women, some are gay – they need to be kept away from men and some are just w@nkers…. If Roy Keane was to put into google ‘Arsenal Player Selfies’ he would get 0.8 million hits, ‘Chelsea Player Selfies’ would get 1.6 million and ‘Man Utd Player… Read more »
I had said last year when this young man got injured that it was important to get him back as soon as possible because i thought he had become and important part of the arsenal team, his game had improve last year by modeling Sanchez. He takes on and goes by opponents as if they were standing still. I think there is another player quite similar to the OX and his name is Gnarby he possess the abilities and perhaps will even become more dangerous if given the chance to blossom. I hope both of them get a lot of… Read more »
Voted down for violating the Wilshere rule*, despite agreeing with the sentiment.
*If you are going to talk about one of your club’s players, the least you can do is get their fucking name right. — Gnabry….Gnabry…etc
They are almost mirror images of each other.
Just imagine the insanity that he’ll speak as Keane continues to age… absolutely hilarious.
The word ‘dated’ comes to mind when Roy Keane opens his mouth. What century does he live in?
Have to love Ninja Turtle. Banter.;)
Plus he does it on the pitch too.
Like Ramsey and Walcott before, Ox can score goals and come good at 23yrs.
If Coquelin is anything to go by last season (Another at 23yrs), it should be instructive to most that there is such a thing as improvement.
Welbeck, Jack are also around the same age. All these players tend to mature around 23/24yrs. Wenger has accumulated a number of players around this age by design.
The one or two players ?? Chambo must be there definitely according to….what’s his name?. …anyway, chambo looks the real deal and ..snubbed manure! !! Green eyed monster? Yes, he would wish one or two gunners were in manure. Sorry mate, we all love selfies. …and we are the real deal
Dear old Keano, sad and bitter. Tossing toys out of his pram coz he doesn’t look as good as the lads… How sad.
Roy Keane needs to shut up. Chelsea players are also on social media, doesn’t stop them from winning.
All he had to say is he doesn’t like Arsenal (maybe due to viera).
Stupid cunt, he never succeeded as a coach
Or at social media. Or at being social for that matter.
Just hope Ox stays fit. He’s potentially the best player we have. As soon as the goals start..watch out.
This is such baseless, pointless, vacuous crap I honestly didn’t understand why anyone was taking it seriously.
Until I realised it’s exactly the sort of thing Katie Hopkins might say. It’s that bollocks.
Which, I suppose, makes Roy Keane the new Katie Hopkins.
Harsh.
Hardly. Given that Keane got away with the ‘pre-meditated’ leg-break of Alf-Inge Haaland only to re-invent himself as a worldy-wise cave-dwelling beardy football guru, I think it’s appropriate to see just how far he’s come in the pond-life food chain.
Anyway the grumpy old cunt hates us still. It’s only right we reciprocate by comparing him in units of Katie Hopkins. I thought I was being generous by stopping at just the one.
We’ve won the FA Cup, Barclay’s Cheesy Puffs Asia Cup, Emirates Cup, and Charity Shield since May ffs. We seem to be doing alright.
Roy Keane has now joined the Cuntery club of John Terry Esquires did he not see all the selfies taken after we won 2 FA cups ” 2 charity Shields and the Emirates trophy PPFFFttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
Who is the biggest cunt of those two? I to and I fro but I can’t reach a conclusion.
So what? The Arsenal players take selfies after every game they win.
Let’s hope that we see them taking selfies 38 times during the premier league, 13 times during the Champions League, 6 times during the League cup and 7 times during the FA cup as well as the Johnson’s paint trophy and the LDV Vans trophy
Roy Keane is right. Why are you people misinterpreting Keane? Is it because he isn’t a gooner legend? I know if is someone like Henry, many people would have echoed it.
Now, what did Roy mean? Is Keane against selfies? No. He isn’t. Then what did he mean again? He is saying ‘everything shouldn’t be about selfies’. A man don’t need to upload selfies all the time when you aren’t a woman. that is what keane mean and we all know that
Hold up it’s Albert Einstein. Don’t give up the day job. D’oh.
DRINK!
The Ox is human, while kean is an evil cunt trying to get noticed. Just ignore the bastard.
He’s just jealous.
Let’s face it, who the fuck would want to look at a picture of Roy Keane?
Maybe it’s the honest misunderstanding of Keane thinking a selfie has something to do with masturbation.
It is a stupid thing to say and probably nutshells why he could never succeed as a manager. However, I do like seeing him on TV as he makes the other cunts (excluding Ian Wright Wright Wright) look really uncomfortable. Would love to him lose it completely and steam into Michael cuntface Owen whilst taking a selfie. Now that would be TV at its finest.
He disrespected a fellow professional when he tried to end Haaland’s career. He disrespected the people that paid his wages when he referred to Manure fans as the ‘prawn sandwich brigade’. He disrespected the man who employed him when he left Man United. He even disrespected his own country when he walked out on the Irish World Cup squad. Why does anyone ever listen to anything this vacuous, self absorbed cunt says? Disembowelling IS the only option. I’ll volunteer.
Funny how Keane’s never said anything about a certain Man Utd captain’s worries about how his hairs looking.
Lov the occasional prawn sandwich myself!
Fan engagement = revenue = better prospects for a club.
Breaking legs of rivals = better prospects for a club.
Which route to choose? Decisions, decisions…
I can forgive Keane almost anything because with his grumpiness towards United and Taggart especially he has got that entitled bunch so confused. One of their greatest ever players has losses them off so much. Hilarious. Some of the losers even dare to suggest he wasn’t a great player.