Robbie Keane announced yesterday that Wednesday's game against Oman was to be his last, writes Steve Neville.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Tributes flooded social media, with many thanking one of the real greats of Irish football for all the good times and all those goals (67 after 145 caps).<\/p>\n
Roddy Doyle has pitched in too, in typical two pints fashion, with a fitting tribute to the man who got the famous goal against Germany that "still makes me want to punch the air."<\/p>\n
We're pretty sure Irish fans across the country were having similar conversations last night. <\/p>\n
Here's the text in full:<\/p>\n
-See Robbie Keane\u2019s retirin\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n -It\u2019s weird.<\/em><\/p>\n -Why?<\/em><\/p>\n -Well, like \u2013 he used to be a teenager.<\/em><\/p>\n -I think I know what yeh mean.<\/em><\/p>\n -I\u2019ll tell yeh – when you measure your life in football, it goes past very fuckin\u2019 quickly. One minute he\u2019s a kid, the next he\u2019s retirin\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n -He was great but, wasn\u2019t he?<\/em><\/p>\n -No question. Brilliant. An\u2019 the best thing about him \u2013 he had a real Dublin head on him. <\/em><\/p>\n -Yeah, yeah \u2013 I know what yeh mean. Richard Dunne, Duffer \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n -Dublin heads.<\/em><\/p>\n -John Giles, Stapleton, Paul McGrath, Brady. You just see them an\u2019 you think –<\/em><\/p>\n -Dublin again. They couldn\u2019t\u2019ve been from annywhere else.<\/em><\/p>\n -But then yeh look at Roy Keane an\u2019 yeh think \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n -Cork.<\/em><\/p>\n -Exactly. Yeh might wish he was from Dublin but he wouldn\u2019t have been Roy if he\u2019d come from annywhere else.<\/em><\/p>\n -Yeh look at Shane Long an\u2019 yeh think \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n -The sunny south-east.<\/em><\/p>\n -Shay Given?<\/em><\/p>\n -Donegal \u2013 no question. Seamus Coleman the same.<\/em><\/p>\n -Kevin Kilbane?<\/em><\/p>\n -Da from Mayo \u2013 his fuckin\u2019 ears.<\/em><\/p>\n -Robbie Brady?<\/em><\/p>\n -Northside.<\/em><\/p>\n -Stephen Ireland?<\/em><\/p>\n -Argos.<\/em><\/p>\n -D\u2019you remember that goal Robbie \u2013 Robbie Keane, like – scored against Germany?<\/em><\/p>\n -Ah, man. <\/em><\/p>\n -Still makes me want to punch the air.<\/em><\/p>\n -Thank you, Robbie.<\/em><\/p>\n -Thank you very much.<\/em><\/p>\n The lines on Roy Keane and Stephen Ireland are sure to raise a smile but it's the final two lines that we'll all be repeating on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n "Thank you, Robbie. Thank you very much."<\/p>\n Here's a little extra sport. Watch the latest BallTalk for the best sports chat and analysis: Which teams are relegation candidates this season? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Robbie Keane announced yesterday that Wednesday's game against Oman was to be his last, writes Steve Neville. Tributes flooded social media, with many thanking one of the real greats of Irish football for all the good times and all those goals (67 after 145 caps). Roddy Doyle has pitched in too, in typical two pints […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}READ MORE: Robbie Keane's career in numbers<\/h3>\n
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