🚨 Roy Keane on Lisandro Martínez’s red card and Manchester United’s disastrous 2-1 defeat to Leeds United at Old Trafford:
“I’m sitting here watching this, and I’m absolutely baffled. You’re 2-0 down at Old Trafford against Leeds, a game where you need to show some fight and pride and your senior centre-half gets sent off for pulling Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s ponytail. Are we in a primary school playground? I hear people making excuses, crying that it was a soft pull and VAR shouldn't have intervened. I don't care if he was trying to braid it! It is sheer, unbelievable stupidity. You've abandoned your teammates when they needed you most.
And look at the situation they've put themselves in now. They play Chelsea on Saturday. If they turn up with this same gutless mentality, Liverpool and Aston Villa will be rubbing their hands together, and United will be sitting in fifth place by Sunday evening wondering what happened. You're Manchester United, you're getting completely outworked by Leeds in your own backyard, and your defenders are busy pulling hair. It’s an absolute disgrace. I'd be ashamed to look in the mirror after that.”
I'm not a military strategist, but it seems to me that if you are in a war with Israel gathering your senior leadership together in one place is not a great idea.
@calvinokello4 All African countries are poor, Okello. The difference is the level of ambition. Ethiopia has ambition. Most of Kenya doesn't have any ambition to build anything. Most, not all.
With war drums beating in Ethiopia, global diaspora could unify around "silence the guns" instead of arguing over which ethnic region suffered most. Unified diaspora could exert great pressure with demand for cease fire on all fronts. Time for Silent Majority to speak loudly!
@benjimk if china alone made countries look like this, half the world would already be spotless. infrastructure helps, but mindset does the heavy lifting.
In Ethiopia, labor productivity is so low, 3 people end up doing the job of one person getting 1/3rd of a reasonable livable salary. Many would rather do little and earn little than push themselves to learn skills and acquire more responsibilities. Universities have a lot to do.