Advantages: Nice insight into the controversial aspects to Roy's playing career Disadvantages: Doesn't cover his time at Celtic, or any of his managerial work
actually came late into the professional game, having seemingly missed his chance he was noticed by a Nottingham Forrest Scout while playing for Cobh Ramblers in the Irish league. A couple of seasons with Nottingham Forrest ended with them relegated and Roy moving to Manchester United for the then record fee of £3.75 million. Manchester is where Roy made his name as an uncompromising player, giving no quarter and helping the team pick up virtually every trophy available. The drinking culture, prevalent in many teams in the eighties and nineties is also touched upon with honesty, Roy freely admitting that he did more than his share of socialising in his early Manchester days.
That Alf-Inge Håland incident
A couple of incidents stand out above all others in the playing career of Roy Keane, the 2002 World Cup walkout and the Alf ...
Advantages: Classic single after classic single Disadvantages: He never stuck at anything
Rock icons, don't ya just love 'em?
As they go, RoyWood has been better and longer lasting than most. Kicking off in that Brummie classic power pop band of the 60's The Move, Wood was always the slick and clever one in that wonderful pop outfit as they ran up a string of solid gold hits which were also very very good.
'Fire Brigade', 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow,' 'Blackberry Way', 'Flowers In The Rain' and many, many more mark out The Move as a band that meant as much as The Kinks, but unfortunately they never got the credit their glorious record really deserved. Perhaps it was the presence of that soon to be cabaret singer, the very very naff Carl Wayne, perhaps it was just that they were too ready to become pop icons. Whatever, The Move should have been mega, and just as they were at the peak of their powers, up popped Roy ...
Advantages: Strong performances by a talented cast Disadvantages: A bit more gratuitous violence than you'd want young children to witness
Note: Some plot details are disclosed in this opinion.
Based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy is the kind of movie that you just almost have to like. With a script that is largely unmarred by shades of moral gray, good is clearly good, evil is clearly evil, marital love and fidelity triumph over all challenges, and justice prevails at the end of the day. It is, in a word, wholesome.
Toss in a healthy dose of standing stones, Highland lochs, and good Scottish scenery in general, and--well, you just about have to like this movie. At least, Himself and I do. We own a VHS copy, and when we crave escape to the Highlands or exposure to political and personal honor (try to find either these days), we pull out Rob Roy for uplifting dose of courage and valor--plus a wee bit or romance.
During its best moments, this film makes ...
BawBaw 14.01.2005
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