"VAN NISTELROOY FEIGNED INJURY!" Martin Keown says the Dutch striker caused Vieira to be sent off!

18 years ago Van Nistelrooy missed a crucial penalty against Arsenal in the title race, which lead to iconic scenes involving Martin Keown!
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[@KingJaffeJoffer99]

RIP Jose Reyes

[@MrMoneyLong]

🙏

[@hellobanking802]

The days when the badge meant something and the players showed care. Long gone.

[@rohithraman6488]

I think most footballers these days do care, it's just that some of the most famous footballers don't really care that much and they get all the headlines

[@USCFlash]

oh please, op. there are plenty of huge players who stay at their clubs. Del Piero, Totti, Raul Sergio Ramos, Xavi, Iniesta, DeRossi, Schole, Giggs, Gerrard, Lampard Terry, neville, MAldini There are certainly plenty of mercenaries out there....but what about clubs showing they care to players? Players are commodities to the clubs. Clubs sell off their youth players, ditch their injured & old. lowball contracts.

[@tharcisse7103]

Media killed that part of the game. Everyone's afraid of being dragged out in public and stoned now so clubs and players try their best to limit drama and hide emotions.

[@timothyosullivan222]

"Romantic Ireland is dead and gone. It's with O'Leary in the grave!"

[@rosshaugh7937]

RVN never went down after Viera kicked out at him..

[@skaaya1]

What are you talking about? Go back and rewatch the clip. RVN (who was known as a very sneaky dirty player) sneakily stretches out his right leg while he's coming down from the jump, to trying to make contact / kick Viera, first 🙄.

[@rosshaugh7937]

@@skaaya1 rewatch the clip yourself, he doesn’t do anything. Viera kicks out petulantly. 3 or 4 arsenal players after the penalty were disgraceful.

[@barryjohnlcs9829]

@@skaaya1 If nowadays player will go down directly, in order to make sure the opponent be sent away.

[@kbonh22]

​@JJ 7 Auba What did you expect him to do? Let himself be kicked?

[@kbonh22]

Viera tried to kick him. Ruud avoided it. No 'feigning' involved whatsoever. Martin needs to get his glasses or his memory checked.

[@watermarginramsgate180]

So you sidestep the donkey ruud jumping on Vieira specsavers is waiting for you

[@lrdbas1981]

simon looks like a proud wife just smiling

[@denboy3394]

Simons face while Martins trying to justify what happened is priceless 🤣

[@MalcolmTann0]

One of the best games in premier league history

[@stephenmason9527]

"With the greatest will in the world" Happy Birthday to Simon!

[@stephenburke682]

"Man utd and Arsenal fans talk about it all the time" says Jim. Do they? As a utd fan the only time I think of that incident is when videos like this pop up and bring it to my attention

[@civic5555]

why didn't you ask him why he intentionally hit van nistelrooy just after he missed the penalty? why didn't you mention that Vieira tried to kick him, even if he didn't get him..?

[@ay613]

Always thought he was sent off due to intent like all van nistelrooy did is move his legs away as vieira kicked out so he wouldn't be kicked it's the same reason Keane was sent off for trying to punch shearer in 2001.

[@shebeshimillion7250]

keane made contact tho

[@84Jason1]

@@shebeshimillion7250 irrelevant if he made contact or not the intent was there

[@Kusun0ki]

What an embarrassing answer from Keown his behaviour was cringe looking back at that incident

[@joshclarkefitness]

How did van nistelrooy fain injury, viera went to kick him made no contact and he flinched out of shock he didn’t go down or act hurt and I’m not praising him because of course he didn’t get touched but it’s not like he went up to the ref and tried to get him sent off or even acted like he got touched which in this current era we see all the time, so Martin is talking nonsense by saying he feigned injury

[@chriswilkinson7636]

That's how I saw it. It was just a reflex action from Van Nistelrooy. He didn't go to ground or anything. Let's not forget it was Patrick Viera who tried to kick him

[@burlhorse61]

He was a knob.

[@davidbuthlay4368]

Arsenal had a massive bee in their bonnet with Van Nistelrooy before then and this moment was the excuse to unload. I never did quite get what their problem was with him at that time tbh….

[@burlhorse61]

@@davidbuthlay4368 couldn't stand him either

[@antonytaylor8582]

He doesn’t feign injury… he didn’t even go down.. Viera kicks out, doesn’t make any contact but V Nistelrooy jumps back, ref sees it and sends Viera off. Have a watch back Martin without your biased glasses on.

[@notfirstyourlast]

Spot on.

[@humblesmith1215]

Get over it! Why you getting your knickers in a twist? Just enjoy listening to it

[@antonytaylor8582]

@@humblesmith1215 Ok A- I’ve nothing to get over, was simply making an observation of Martin’s incorrect statement, they brought it up, my comment was perfectly calm. 2- How did you know I wear knickers?!…

[@84Jason1]

@@humblesmith1215 enjoy listening to nonsense? Makes out Arsenal where in the right to target Ruud like they did

[@humblesmith1215]

@@antonytaylor8582 Do you wear knickers? 😂 It’s just a figure of speech. But I hear you loud and clear. Fair enough. Salute

[@davidbatey1932]

Ruud didn’t go down at all, he jumped back to avoid the attempted kick from Viera, and then everybody piled in, he didn’t feign anything

[@kJ922-h3j]

Yeah viera got himself sent off. If it was reversed any Arsenal player would have been rolling on the floor for the same thing

[@wingedflyingdonkey7777]

Ruud jumped into Vieira studs in the midriff a cowards challenge, watch it back, as usual at Old Trafford the reaction is punished not the offence. Was hilarious nonetheless, the scenes at the final whistle were some of the best handbags comedy footballers pushing and shoving. Not a punch thrown lol

[@kJ922-h3j]

@@wingedflyingdonkey7777 “studs in the midriff” !? Ffs lol you REALLY need to watch that again, he essentially just pushed viera over with his leg

[@kJ922-h3j]

@jj7auba16 he kicked out at him with studs shown and Ruud moved back and then tried to highlight it to the referee, just like every player on every team would! Like I said if it was an Arsenal player they would have been rolling on the floor

[@crsocial6489]

Parlours story telling is genius.

[@VinylLondon]

Lauren trying to get a refund 😆

[@burlhorse61]

that's the funniest part of Parlour's story

[@deanbailey67]

Ralph was a legend ❤️

[@michaeldalessandro2595]

Shame on the presenters for not calling out this complete rubbish. RVN stayed on his feet for the entire incident.

[@Policestate41]

He never feigned injury, he never even went down he just jumped back when viera kicked out at him

[@englishblackie]

Shame he didn't make with contact him and give him something to go down for!

[@skaaya1]

What are you talking about? Go back and rewatch the clip. RVN (who was known as a very sneaky dirty player) sneakily stretches out his right leg while he's coming down from the jump, to trying to make contact / kick Viera, first 🙄.

[@Mitotracker]

Look at Simon's smile, he loved it

[@TheLaazR]

Damn. I feel like Martin was gonna have an emotional moment eulogising his friend, the Late Jose Reyes. Then Jim interrupted him to talk about that El Crappico 😂😂

[@benitotommassi5820]

Van Nistelrooy literally did nothing wrong. Vieira fouled him, Ruud reacted to Vieira going to kick him and Vieira got sent off. Arsenal, and Keown especially, feared him and their relief of the penalty missed boiled over at the end. Watch it again, Martin.

[@ezenwaikechukwu4244]

Ruud fouled viera initially. That's the truth. United fan

[@benitotommassi5820]

@@ezenwaikechukwu4244 no he didn't. He jumped for the ball and Vieira got underneath him. Vieira makes no attempt for the ball at all and you can see Van nistelrooy try to pull out mid air, and they collide. Vieira then cops the hump and kicks out. But, even if it was a foul, the bottom line is Vieira got sent off for being petulant and kicking out at someone who collided with him, RVN did nothing wrong.

[@ezenwaikechukwu4244]

@@benitotommassi5820 the bottom line is that it's a foul. Van didn't go for the ball. That's my opinion though. But yours is yours and am not excuses what Martin did either.

[@kJ922-h3j]

@@ezenwaikechukwu4244 Ruud fouling him beforehand is irrelevant to the incident that Martin conveniently doesn’t remember correctly

[@skaaya1]

What are you talking about? Go back and rewatch the clip. RVN (who was known as a very sneaky dirty player) sneakily stretches out his right leg while he's coming down from the jump, to trying to make contact / kick Viera, first 🙄.

[@limericklad2000]

He still doesn't get it. The fact that there was no contact is and was irrelevant. Kicking out is a yellow card offense whether you make contact or not. They had nothing to complain about.

[@walkermorgan1710]

Love simons smile during this story

[@stephenmason9527]

He was the very picture of listening intently! LOL

[@accountformelyknownasarsen3072]

Haha, he certainly seemed to enjoy it.

[@martinpower6254]

Simon is a fool

[@walkermorgan1710]

@@martinpower6254 haha why?

[@mark2shooter]

It was a red before Ruud started blowing it up.

[@SB-ou5yp]

The selco logo in the background got me thinking of Klobby again

[@macoooos9204]

It's disingenuous for Keown to complain about van Nistlerooy when Arsenal had Robert Pires in their team who would dive & fake injury constantly.

[@ibez07]

vieira kicks out at rvn and rvn is the bad guy for getting out of the way?

[@kbonh22]

Arsenal fan logic.

[@kJ922-h3j]

Absolute crap, viera got himself sent off. If it was reversed any of your mob would have been rolling on the floor for the same thing

[@kJ922-h3j]

@JJ 7 Auba of course it is, it’s the intent, just cause Ruud saw it coming and moved means nothing. And again the exact same thing…pires would have been rolling around on the floor

[@bmcg8888]

​@jj7auba16ever hear of violent intent in football you absolute clown😅

[@romainesmith7980]

The fact that Martin Keown doesn't regret anything about that day i respect him more.

[@donnyannessa654]

I think he’s a disgrace.

[@barryjohnlcs9829]

He should be ashamed of it, but how in some ways he make himself proud of it. It's a complete disgrace.

[@carlosvan21]

Exactly .... as a man united supporter that's what you want to see.... Passion and mahem.... bring it on !!! Great man Martin Keown

[@Tarek_ElMaddah]

Van Nistelrooy is the disgrace

[@Snotzalotz]

The man acted like a complete thug, and then points fingers in other directions because he’s a self absorbed prick

[@ninjackunited6609]

VAN NISTEROOY DID NOT GO TO GROUND OR FEIGN INJURY...HE JUMPED OUT OF THE WAY WHEN VIERA KICKED OUT AT HIM.

[@beefsuprem0241]

Class from keown on Reyes 😇👏

[@aodhreilly1968]

Shame he got cut off to tell the rest of that story

[@niallhanrahan8102]

Nothing class about known dirty player

[@beefsuprem0241]

@@niallhanrahan8102 no different to any defender from his time. And irrelevant to paying respects to deceased collegue, passed before his time.

[@richardjones3792]

Cringe

[@hassasinali7979]

My wife will kill me looooool bless him. Lauren the legend

[@daedralord1]

Rudd clearly didn’t fake injury

[@welshhibby]

I love the banter !

[@danielx5740]

Martin should be a manager...real men would run threw a brick wall for this man..

[@spinynormanbest6410]

He might as well, cos he wasn't a player 😉😉

[@wiffer22222]

He didn't feign injury. Deluded

[@stokiebrad1235]

Martin:love players Martin: hate RVN ...also RVN never went down lol

[@cyrilthesquirrel1546]

Best thing I think about this, Is Simons demeanour, wanted to let - and gave Martin the platform, 10/10.

[@joesimpson4473]

In what world did RVN go down? He literally just jumps out of the way of Viera's kick and looks at the referee

[@skaaya1]

Go back and rewatch the clip. RVN (who was known as a very sneaky dirty player) sneakily stretches out his right leg while he's coming down from the jump, to trying to make contact / kick Viera, first 🙄.

[@MrSleeplessnights]

I love Martin, Tony, Patrick, Thierry, Manuel, Ray, David and all the old boys. Arsenal was a team full or HARD men. And we have never replaced that since those boys left. Gilberto deserves mention but as a team, we've never got that hardness back. More soft than anything. We won't win anything without fixing this.

[@Yamah12a]

What you about? Saka is a menace on the pitch lol.

[@jamescooling]

Not only did ruud not feign injury, he didn't even go down 😂 this is how keowns mind works.

[@siyabongatshabalala2098]

The way Martin Keon conducts himself is very disciplined person in real life! He is always honest and very sincere

[@kartinmarl.7804]

Is this sarcasm?

[@geoffcrawford9211]

Er…

[@Barberdon2022]

Jordan buzzing keown got fined because Jordan has spent yrs paying off fines loool

[@shandyguy211]

Not Keowns proudest moment!

[@rmrm9191]

He didn't go down though did he Martin? 😂

[@EdgarHernandez-gn3bg]

Exactly martin you are just a big bully.

[@garethwellens6050]

Rudd never went down

[@johnjonesToffeeman]

Keown is a sociopath

[@Darchie]

I remember watching that game. The Arsenal players lost their heads. That's what happened. Veira kicked out at Van Nistelrooy. The ref seen it and sent him off for violent conduct. Known, Parlour then went after Van Nistelrooy after he missed the penalty. They done the same the year later when they got beat at old Trafford. Pizza Gate. You can be a bad loser but still conduct yourself the right way. The Arsenal mob around this time were a disgrace. Keown can paint this sort of picture (which is interesting) but the reality is what you see on the cameras. Life can be mad sometimes. Things always come back to haunt you. I still remember Van Nistelrooy screaming down the camera a year on after he scored the penalty and United ended Arsenal's unbeaten run.

[@edwindsouza8816]

Tough-guy Keane was nowhere to be seen defending his teammates...

[@september7917pm]

Keown has a bad memory, van nistelrooy did not go down, did not pretend to be injured. Simply jumped out of the way of viera kicking out of him. Idiot and very average defender

[@alexbelton5923]

18 years on and keown is still blaming ruud for his physical abuse.

[@kevin084life]

Imagine VAR was around back in 2003 Premier League 🤯

[@andylowe3564]

Arsenal wudnt be invincible for a start off

[@yt_lucid381]

Man united fewer penalties

[@ditshabamohlala8789]

@@andylowe3564 and United wouldn't have won half of the trophies they won, bye *B*

[@kbonh22]

Then Viera would have still been sent off 😂

[@JSL2000]

Jim White is straight from the Alan Brazil school of talking all over the other presenters. I'd actually like to hear a bit of what they have to say without being interrupted all the time.

[@Mr_GMS]

what they did to Reyes still needs correcting.

[@stephenmayo9868]

Great memories.

[@mrbcoolkid8623]

Those were the days. I remember that game like it was yesterday

[@Moonlightgraeme]

If I did what Keown did to Ruud I would be done for assault.

[@MW-zd5gn]

I think 99% of us wish football was still like the early 00s late 90s. Simon = Top LAD proper clobber

[@amanplayz518]

Corrupt era of football

[@MW-zd5gn]

@@hellobanking802 cheers cop. Bloody top LAD

[@MW-zd5gn]

@@amanplayz518 cry more for the current era of diving, whinging, stopping the game for VAR, sending players off for saying boo. Pathetic generation of football

[@hellobanking802]

@@MW-zd5gn 👍

[@amanplayz518]

@@MW-zd5gn 70s and 80s were the best level playing field

[@pr1bob]

Annual Keown v Ruud vid 😂

[@5thdawg917]

Remember watching that game as kid. It was incredible. A young Ronaldo also played in that game. 18 years ago & 18 years young & still going strong.

[@eriknebularraven]

❤️

[@craigmoorebrightsparkprodu799]

Keown deserved a lot worse than what he got. He's convinced himself over the years that he was right to act the way he did, evident by the fact that he says RVN went down when he didn't. Great game though. Remember it well.

[@rishabhaniket1952]

I would really like to read the thesis paper Keown keeps writing ✍️

[@crsocial6489]

“Can i appeal”😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@liammufc11]

Viera got himself sent off. If he didn't kick out at ruud then he wouldn't of get sent off simple as that. Ruud didn't go down, he stepped back when viera kicked out at him. and looked at the ref and was like "did you see that ref". There was no contact but the intent was there and that's why he got a red card. Keown talking absolute rubbish here.

[@CarlitoGio]

It's my brothers birthday too. Arsenal fan. No regrets is a great philosophy in life

[@GutzOverFear]

Whenever something like that happens to Ruud he always manages to get revenge. 😅 Like the season after this one he scores a penalty to help end Arsenal's 49 game unbeaten streak. Then in 2005 an Andorran player laughs in his face after he missed a penalty. He goes on to score and celebrate in that same player's face as he in turn makes a surprised pikachu face. 😳

[@ajinstockholm4902]

Thanks Van, you could have ended the invincible there and then, wow, what a miss🤣

[@adebolabloke6962]

This was the difference between Arsenal 2004 and Chelsea 2005. Yes Arsenal were unbeaten but the number of draws that could and SHOULD have been defeats. This one, Yakubu's sitter missed for Portsmouth. Chelsea might have lost 1 game but they were far more dominant in the rest than Arsenal were. Chelsea: you wondered what it was going to take to stop them. Arsenal: you always knew it would just take one team to get stuck into them to end the run. And of course that's what Man United eventually did

[@wtfamiactuallyright1823]

Points at Keown, while scowling and saying: Shame. Shame. Shame... 😀

[@l.apastore4208]

I was at the Ivy in Chelsea Gardens last week. Bit overblown that tbh

[@chriser555]

As a United fan, I must say I really like Martin Keown and have a lot of respect for him. Easy to say that now that he's retired

[@stefane8763]

One of the best games op the prem era, EASY. That game was war not a game

[@chriser555]

@@stefane8763 they don't make them like that any more

[@burlhorse61]

@@stefane8763 completely different era though.thought the arsenal players were right-but i'm biased.lol

[@benitotommassi5820]

I love his punditry and his attitude to football, even if I don't agree with what he says sometimes. He was a horrible player though. King of the shirt pull and box grapple.

[@USCFlash]

pssssh...he is garbage. I'll respect Adams & Dixon....not Keown. Dirty player & a liar too.

[@gabrielc.774]

Strange that Martin didn't get a red card after the game was over for taking a swipe at RVN. If he claimed that RVN feigned an injury then why didn't RVN do it again when Keown took a swipe at him ? It shows that Keown made a false accusation

[@mjjj-bk5ti]

This story has been told so many times

[@johnmitchell2269]

Can't blame Keown, most people as ugly as that tend to be angry all the time.

[@ozzy7058]

Lol didn't this guy play with Pires....

[@unclebuck567]

RvN goes down? What is Martin on??

[@questioneverything751]

How often are we going to say Aubamayang wasn’t up for it ? When are we going to realize that he is done

[@garethjones2917]

Arsenal Players when he missed the penalty should be ashamed of them selfs getting in his face.

[@chrisb4474]

Why? He wound them up and they showed passion

[@issyjas3309]

Quite sad that Keown is only remembered for that incident

[@bordeauxbobby]

known just lying like we aint got the footage

[@minimeee04]

Get over it Martin get over it, it will only eat you up.

[@ciaranmckenna1777]

David Brent at it again...

[@pushit2thelimit242]

Love this guy

[@johnjonesToffeeman]

Kicked sheedys eye out

[@00zishi]

What’s Keown talking about van nistelroy didn’t feign injury or go down that was totally viera’s fault for getting sent off.

[@eriknebularraven]

YOUNG CR7 ❤️

[@anthonyto1993]

Funny watching this after the recent video of Athletico

[@barrylee6256]

Ruud never went down. He pointed out a kick aimed at himself. Keane asked Ruud after the game 'Are you ok'. Ruud said 'Yeah, sorry. Awful pen I know'. Keown and the others meant nothing to him. He still laughs about it 'Saying he missed the Keown bingo wing'.

[@mjs8224]

Viera stupidly kicked out and got sent off Martin. Very simple.

[@JJ-ev9uz]

simon is the star of the show hahaha

[@shishibenterfa]

Happy birthday Mr Jordan

[@fullclipzzz1278]

As a Utd fan I hated keown as a player but really like him as a pundit

[@2HatHudders]

Same! He's matured well..

[@alexbelton5923]

You keep celebrating physically abusing a man who was far far better than yourself

[@daveanthat4191]

Jordan doesn't even cover his mouth whilst yawning. Manners maketh 'man'

[@salford6]

Guy kicked out and Ruud moved and looked at the ref 🤷🏻‍♂️ early onset dementia Martin 👍🏻 lucky Keane didn’t see you getting brave either that day or you’d of got slapped about

[@sharmarkeali3344]

Keown would’ve snapped Keane in half 😂

[@salford6]

@@sharmarkeali3344 🤣🤣🤣

[@pfjpeter]

No United fans talk about it.....Arsenal fans yes..because they have nothing else.

[@mrpotato442]

Arsenals invincible team had an illusion that nobody could/should tackle them .. nobody went to work on their players.

[@watermarginramsgate180]

You're weird and wrong

[@mrpotato442]

@@watermarginramsgate180 weird ?? Ok. Why is that? Very strange reply.

[@Tom-lv3ss]

Class

[@ekonamare7219]

I’m a big fan of Keown as a pundit, underrated.

[@tris87don16]

👏🏿👏🏿 keown