Patrick Vieira has spoken out ahead of the Arsenal vs United match tomorrow, refleting on the infamous incidents between the two clubs.
Patrick Vieira ran away from Roy Keane ahead of the ‘Battle of Highbury’, where United beat Arsenal 4-2 on their own turf. After having a go at Gary Neville, our skipper was not very happy with Vieira, so chased him down the tunnel, having the held back by referee Graham Poll.
“I played with Roy Keane so many times, but the story that comes to my mind straight away is the argument we had at Highbury before the game in the tunnel,” said Vieira. “I remember saying a few words to Gary Neville because he was after Robert Pires every time. So I had a few words before the game and, of course, Roy Keane came to defend his own players. There were a few words going through the tunnel and of course some intimidation. So that was quite exciting and quite good.”
He has also spoken about the 0-0 at Old Trafford in which he was given his marching orders for a second yellow card with less than ten minutes to go. Ruud van Nistelrooy missed a last minute penalty, only to be hounded embarrassing by the Arsenal players.
“We played at Manchester and I was sent off during the game because I made a tackle and Van Nistelrooy acted like he was making a movie,” said Vieira. “I got really frustrated about it and wasn’t happy at all. After the game, I saw him next to the coach and we exchanged a few words. That was quite funny.”
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quite exciting – bet it was, he sat himself
Scott I sometimes wonder if you have a job
I think you will find Vieira kept it quiet when he went down the tunnel as Poll was threatening to send them both off. And I remember Keane saying i’ll see you on the pitch but then staying the feck away from big Pat all night.
A good big one will always beat a good small one.
The only running away was when Keane ran away from his Country at the world cup in 2002 because Mick McCarthy didn’t bow down before him
Dirty Patrick is an historical revisionist. But he did back down from Keane-o and he did kick at Ruud’s bollocks. He was, however, a damned-good player in his prime, which is now about six or seven years ago; he has had a long career but is now only a shadow of his former self. In his prime, he was big, fast, intimidating and skilful – like a Tom Huddlestone with an angry gene.
united and gunners have been “old-time friend” I hope history will not repeat itself cos united will be visiting emirates with the mind of disharming gunners weapon. lets see how those under-age boys will be able to withstand the pressure from determined devils…………… united4ever
Veira was always loyal to his country, er Senagel?!
Legend.
At last, tomorrow at 12.45pm, Fergies master plan to sell Silvestre to the Gooners can spring into action. Go on Micky, whats it gonna be…a well disguised own goal? a late tackle in the box to concede a penalty? playing our lads on side as we break? A silly red card? Only you and Fergie really know what ye concocted, but its gonna be worth it. Once a Manc, always a Manc!!!
Unfortunately, there will never be a rivalry in English Football like that shared between Keane & Vieira… as a Gooner, it was nice to know we had someone that could stand up to Keane both in battle and on the pitch… for me, Vieira was slightly better as a player, but Keane was a better leader… I would have LOVED to have seen them both play together for Arsenal (def not for Man U) as they weould have torn up every team they ever played against… not the same as it was these dats, especially with the Russian Moneybags from the West Side of London around… but still look forward to this game more than any other every season… just scared you lot will give us a good stuffing tomorrow, but it is as unpredictable as any other game, so u never know!
I don’t think Veira bottled it from Keane, I’ve studied it and he did the sensible thing. In reference to the horse faced cunt, he fucking dived and veira’s foot was no where near his bollocks. Roy Keane knew the score and stuck by Veira rather than that prick. Roy keane’s the only fella in football worth listening to. He’s about the MAN left in the game…
Peace and love, from Arsenal.
It would complete my life if Silvestre scored against you.
Jonny, you must have a shit life then.
No, but you see when my team scores, especially if it was one of your former players who scores, it would make me happy. Do you understand that? Does that notion hurt your brain? Sorry for putting that strain on you.
Thanks Jonny for articulating out your point , but if that completes your life then I feel sorry for you.
Its a figure of speech, kinda like when Ronaldo says he wants to stay at your club. He says it to make a point, but he doesn’t really mean it.
Similar to Fabregas I guess? and previously to him by Veira, Henry, Hleb oh and Flamani?
Jonny and veira…fuck off. ” it was funny, it made me smile, it was exciting” Yeh right you melonhead….you were fuckin shitting your pants…why fuckin change the story years on from the incident.
C’mon lads tmrw..lets hope the bitches dont winge and moan toooooo much lol.
Not particularly similar to Fabregas, no. But similar to the others, and might I add Campbell, Cole and Pires to that list. When a team loses its key player, it hurts. I’m looking forward to United’s pain when Ronaldo jets off.
Lets see with Fabregas, if and when you win absolutly nothing again this season, that will be your fourth season without a trophy I might add, the lure of joining a succesful club again might be too much for him, re uniting with his club and old team mates @ Barca I feel.
Keano would have pummeled princes patricia vieira. vieira looked scared in the tunnel. I remember Keano, the look of absolute rage that filled his eyes…oh how we miss you keano. Equally inspirational was Neville’s stone cold death stare.
Fabregas will leave when Wenger leaves I imagine, but the Arsenal curse will soon see his talents wasted at the Nou Camp. I don’t think the current manager would pick him ahead of Xavi or Iniesta, so he has to be careful. Kinda like when Flamini went to Milan, the team that has two of the finest central midfielders in the world, Pirlo and Gattuso. Flam did it for the cash but hopefully Fabregas will be more sensible.
I agree with you he would be stupid to leave, as Arsenal are bulding their team around him, but maybe he would be in place of Yaya Toure, maybe a swap deal?
Yeah I’d be happy with that, a bit of cash coming our way as well. As long as we also bought a player with real distributional skills, that would be a good outcome for me. We could use a player like him right about now. But Wenger always gets a bit confusing when it comes to swap deals…Gallas for Cole, Baptista for Reyes, refusing £16 million and Eto’o for Henry and just settling for the £16 million.
You should have bought Marcos Senna in the summer and Huntelaar, or even Scott Parker or Dacourt as he is french, there you go sorted for you!
Yeah we could use a player in the mould of Senna or Dacourt. Hopefully Wenger will sort it in January, but you can never be sure with him. We should’ve gone for Appiah and Kompany in the summer, they would’ve fitted well.
Kompany looks good, it pains me to say, Appiah in my view is shit and still on a free I think.
I think they only paid £6 million as well? Very good price. Wouldn’t hurt to take Appiah on trial, I think you’re right no one has signed him yet.
I thought the Ammmers, were interested, but mate if they are are not keen, he must be poor!
It will be a good game tomorrow both sides need a win, will be tight.
Yeah, lets hope it lives up to the games of previous seasons. Open ended counter attacking quality from both sides with both keepers tested regularly, and of course the passion that has faded a little in recent games. Any of your first teamers injured?
Scholes, Sahagreaves, Brown and Fletcher is doubtfull I think, I used to love the old games, great physical battles the recent ones seem very tame in comparison! Maybe Anderson V Fabregas could be the new one!
They were excellent games, these new players don’t understand it in the same way as the older ones. Maybe if Fabregas actually turns up to this game unlike most of the others this season!
And we play for more than 45mins!!
jonny and stephen u guys are making me cry here..lol its gonna be a great encounter though..i hope we(arsenal) show up, i don’t really care about the result as long as we play our hearts out and ronaldo doesn’t score…im expecting a battle between ronaldo(because of his talent) and gael(because of his passion)..and of course gallas and van der sar lol..
I haven’t read the comments yet, but let me just say the man is a fucking cunt. I despise him. His take on the event with Ruud is fucking laughable.
It seems rather amicable on here and it has been the same way this week leading up to the match, so I dont want to start any bickering. But seriously, I cant fucking stand Viera.
Johnny I think you said his kick was no where near his bollocks, and I agree with you that he missed, but that doesnt take away from the fact that Pat was on the ground and he attempt to karate kick Ruud does it? Does the simple fact that he didnt make contact make it ok? Like if Rooney throws a hay maker at Fab tomorrow and misses, that wont deserve to be punished? And Ruud didn’t react to the phantom contact at all!! Some players would have gone to ground in an instant after that grabbing their knee and screaming, but Ruud just backed up and looked at the ref as if to ask, “did you see what that fucking moron just did?” Man, that incident gets me so fucking angry, and his revisisionist take on it is just out of this world wrong.
And just to keep my rant going, almost the whole United team seriously disappointed me that match. Where the fuck was everyone, cough cough Keano/captain of the fucking team, when Ruud was surrounded by four lunatics all pushing him and screaming in his face? The only player on the team, the one and only who did anything to help his teammate was Ronaldo. He was all of 18 years old but he actually came and got in the scrap and pushed that fucking maniac Lauren and told him to fuck off. I’m aware of the fact that I have never even been remotely close to being a professional sportsman but every team I’ve ever been a part of would have never done that. We were always willing to back up our teammates, even the ones I didn’t like. Oh well….
He had a talk with Neville cuz he was after Pires all the time??? I can’t just imagine how that convo went. Its his job as a defender and he can go after anybody he wants, as long as its not malicious. So what exactly did he say… hey Gaz, slow down on the Pires tackles, give him some space…yeah sure..
So the horse faced cunt threw himself down on the ground when Vierra aimed a kick at his knee the same knee he had the cruciate operation on, the same knee that nearly ended his career?
Vierra never dived Jonny? What about the gane at Shitfield when hamman went to tackle him and stopped and Vierra threw himself flat on the ground. Funniest thing i’ve seen in football. Look on that turds face, Priceless. Viera was shitting himself in that tunnel, typical bully. Ran away from Keano all night long.
For those who actually saw the Ruud vs Vieira incident, he didn’t throw himself on the ground. Vieira kicked out at Ruud, and Ruud jumped backwards out of the way. Would Vieira have rathered him stay where he way and get kicked?