3 weeks ago
West Ham striker Michail Antonio has labelled Manchester United fable Roy Keane's disapproval of existent footballers hosting podcasts arsenic a "dinosaur mentality".
Without straight mentioning immoderate player, shot pundit Keane told nan Stick To Football, external podcast: "I deliberation that [podcasts] tin beryllium a distraction for a player, peculiarly if you’re connected nan backmost of a defeat, and you’re successful nan adjacent time and everyone is having a spot of a laugh.
"I don’t deliberation you should laughter for a week aliases 2 if you’ve been beaten."
Antonio has co-hosted nan BBC Sounds Footballer's Football Podcast since December 2021 - initially pinch Newcastle guardant Callum Wilson and now pinch Fulham skipper Tom Cairney.
The 34-year-old gives penetration into nan world of top-level shot from a player's constituent of view.
Antonio responded successful nan latest section to 52-year-old Keane's remarks.
He said: "It's dinosaur mentality because erstwhile he [Keane] was playing, each manager, each fan, everybody, perpetually said, 'Focus connected your football. Go to slumber pinch a shot successful your arms - nan only point you're allowed to deliberation astir is football. Your woman deals pinch your kids, don't play pinch your kids - football.'
"That's what it was erstwhile he was playing. Obviously successful clip players who played pinch him went bankrupt because each they did deliberation astir was shot and that's each it was.
"Now, evidently footballers are focusing connected their football, tin do their football, but tin besides attraction connected different things: business, fashion, immoderate are rappers now. People attraction connected different things.
"If I've sewage clip to do this past why shouldn't I? With nan podcast I understand that if you've sewage battered connected nan play - which I did - it's not a point astir being sad for 2 weeks because there's different crippled coming adjacent week. You're meant to hide what happened connected nan past play and make it amended nan adjacent week.
"That's why a batch of players struggle pinch intelligence wellness problems because group are telling them they're meant to struggle for 2 full weeks because they sewage battered connected nan weekend. No, you woody pinch it. You are sad erstwhile you time off and for that night.
"I drove location Sunday pinch nary music, conscionable reasoning astir nan game. I couldn't deliberation consecutive - I could only deliberation astir nan game. I was embarrassed."
Antonio's co-host, Fulham's Cairney, added: "Speaking aft a conclusion is difficult, it's hard, but societal media wasn't moreover a point backmost successful his [Keane's] day. It's a wholly caller procreation and you could reason players successful our time are much master than successful his day.
"Imagine really galore went to nan pub aft a game, aliases really galore drunk. A batch of them had drinks each play and they retired astatine specified an earlier property compared to players now.
"I get what he's saying, but times person changed. It's not easy to speak aft a defeat."
