Robbie Keane Sets New British & Irish Isles Record
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Luxembourg?, I'll give to ye, USA?, .. 1950: USA 1, England 0, one of Englands bogey teams1
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Well now that you bring it up, 22 of Bobby Charlton's 49 goals came in friendlies (44.9%).Bobby Charlton scored his goals against real opposition, not the Faroe Islands, Macedonia, Eritrea, Lithuania and the Vatican City.
Who would you rather have in your side, the GREAT Sir Bobby Charlton (it's all in the name) or frying pan face Robby Keane?
By contrast, only 16 of Robbie Keane's 51 goals scored so far came in friendlies (31.4%).
You might also like to consider that for much of Charlton's time, England were one of the major forces in World Football - including four years as reigning World Champions.
Ireland have fluctuated between being ranked 56th to 12th in the World during Keane's international career.
This means that Ireland & Robbie Keane will have played a far greater percentage of their matches against higher ranked opposition than England & Bobby Charlton ever did.
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Well now that you bring it up, 22 of Bobby Charlton's 49 goals came in friendlies (44.9%).Bobby Charlton scored his goals against real opposition, not the Faroe Islands, Macedonia, Eritrea, Lithuania and the Vatican City.
Who would you rather have in your side, the GREAT Sir Bobby Charlton (it's all in the name) or frying pan face Robby Keane?
By contrast, only 16 of Robbie Keane's 51 goals scored so far came in friendlies (31.4%).
You might also like to consider that for much of Charlton's time, England were one of the major forces in World Football - including four years as reigning World Champions.
Ireland have fluctuated between being ranked 56th to 12th in the World during Keane's international career.
This means that Ireland & Robbie Keane will have played a far greater percentage of their matches against higher ranked opposition than England & Bobby Charlton ever did.
As you know, Charlton (Bobby) was much more than just a goalscorer. He was the main creative player in the England team for many years as well as a major source of international goals.Anyway, 50 or 100 is surely an arbitrary number. A ratio of goals scored to games played is a better mark of a strikers' ability, given that 'modern' defences are far more proficient than those around in (say) the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Amongst the deadliest strikers I can find who regualrly played 'top level' international football: Greaves: 57 Games, 44 Goals, Hurst 49/24, Law 55/30, Eusebio 64/41 and Pele 92/77. The games to goals ratio increases as time goes by. All down to modern defensive football, so Keane has done very well, despite my contention that many games nowadays are played against international 'pub teams'
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68% of us don't care.0
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Can't believe the Spurs fan is arguing Keane's international achievements are better than those of Bobby Charlton. Have a day off.0
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...neither can I. I can tell you who I'd rather see in a Tottenham shirt right now...and its not Robbie Keane.
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99% believe Keene isnt good enough to tie Bobby Charltons laces.
151% think Spurs are just gobshites
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Why can't we just get along0
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Keano...51 goals...and none of them against Eritea, Lithuania or The ..em Vatican City...Not bad considering the crap service he gets!!0
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and 5 against Scotland ;-)Bobby Charlton scored his goals against real opposition, not the Faroe Islands, Macedonia, Eritrea, Lithuania and the Vatican City.
Who would you rather have in your side, the GREAT Sir Bobby Charlton (it's all in the name) or frying pan face Robby Keane?
5 of Bobby's goals were against Luxembourg and 4 against USA.
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I reckon Keane has a better shots per goal ratio!
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He will retire from international football after Ireland's friendly against Oman
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37178551
67 goals in 145 appearances, that's an amazing record6 -
Fantastic achievement despite what others think and say.2
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FFS there are some ignorant cranks on this board. Not interested? Don't fucking read it then.
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Is that you Roger?0
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Predictable cranksredsek said:FFS there are some ignorant cranks on this board. Not interested? Don't fucking read it then.
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I didn't feel he merited another thread, when he's already got an existing oneCurb_It said:
Unfortunately its a 5 year old post that has gotten bumped today for some reason. I personally would have created a new thread to honour lovely Robbie. :-)redsek said:FFS there are some ignorant cranks on this board. Not interested? Don't fucking read it then.
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Especially since he's been supporting this thread since he was a boy, reading it on the terraces, chanting its name.killerandflash said:
I didn't feel he merited another thread, when he's already got an existing oneCurb_It said:
Unfortunately its a 5 year old post that has gotten bumped today for some reason. I personally would have created a new thread to honour lovely Robbie. :-)redsek said:FFS there are some ignorant cranks on this board. Not interested? Don't fucking read it then.
Saved you the effort @BedsaddickBedsaddick said:
Predictable cranksredsek said:FFS there are some ignorant cranks on this board. Not interested? Don't fucking read it then.
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cracking player for the irish, hope he gets a great farewell.2
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Haha beat me to it.SDAddick said:
Especially since he's been supporting this thread since he was a boy, reading it on the terraces, chanting its name.killerandflash said:
I didn't feel he merited another thread, when he's already got an existing oneCurb_It said:
Unfortunately its a 5 year old post that has gotten bumped today for some reason. I personally would have created a new thread to honour lovely Robbie. :-)redsek said:FFS there are some ignorant cranks on this board. Not interested? Don't fucking read it then.
Saved you the effort @BedsaddickBedsaddick said:
Predictable cranksredsek said:FFS there are some ignorant cranks on this board. Not interested? Don't fucking read it then.
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Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside picking up a "like" from a comment 5 years ago but does make me rue the fact that the "like" and "lol" option wasn't available in years gone by and the many that I missed out on , we move on
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Nice guys as well Robbie1
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Scored 1 in the first half, ROI lead 3-0.2
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