Roy Keane has called out Covid-19, accusing it of being a sloppy pandemic.
The former Ireland and Manchester United captain launched his broadside as Sky Sports debated Covid’s impact on the Premier League.
“Covid is like today’s players; too cossetted, wrapped up in cotton wool,” said the Cork man. “It wouldn’t have lasted five minutes in my day – Vieira would have smashed it off the pitch.
If you’re a proper pandemic you want to keep the pressure up until you’ve killed everyone off. Not scoring in these little dribs and drabs.
They’re all talking about lockdown going to Level 3, that it’s the way to defeat Covid. A proper pandemic would beat the lockdown low press, like Giggsy used to. We played every game like it was Level 5.”
“Covid is a sloppy virus,” Keane concluded. “Every game it gives someone different symptoms, be it fever or loss of taste. Where’s the consistency? It’ll never beat the human race and content for the top prizes without consistency.”
Jamie Redknapp countered Keane by claiming that Covid was a “top, top pandemic” and would hold its own “against your Lampards, your Gerrards.”
Chelsea are believed to be preparing a £80M bid for Covid.