Ipswich Town
Walters Blasts Keane
By Aston
September 19 2010
Former Town striker Jon Walters has again blasted the way Town manager Roy Keane treated him in his final few weeks at Town before his move to Stoke City.
Walters: "Roy annoyed me because he made me out to be a bad egg which is not what I am all about.
"What happened was this. At the start of pre-season, I was aware of interest from a couple of Premier League teams.
"So Roy pulled me into his office and said: 'How are you?' I said: 'My head's not the best but I'm okay.' We talked about things and I said if an offer is right for the club and yourself, I would like to take it.
"He was completely fine with me and said I could have a couple of weeks to think about it and if I still felt the same way then I could move on.
"But within two weeks, we spoke again. Nothing had changed. No realistic offers had come in. That was it. 'Fair enough,' I said. 'You know me. I am not going to be a bad egg around the place. I'll train, give everything and just get on with it. I am not the type of person who sulks.'
"And he agreed. So I carried on as normal, captained the side in the first game of the season against Middlesbrough and if there was any doubt I was messing about, you would have seen it during that match.
"But I gave 100 per cent. Then three days later, it all kicked off. We had Exeter away and all during the week everybody in my family had a vomiting bug. So I quarantined myself from the wife and kids to try and avoid it.
"But at 3am on the Tuesday morning I was throwing up. I even took a picture of my sick and sent it to the physio because I knew Roy wouldn't believe me, what with it being a cup tie, clubs being interested in me and all that sort of thing.
"So I got the physio and doctor to smell my breath the next morning just after I'd been sick again.
"The next day I trained, even though I'd been wiped out. Then I got a text on Thursday night saying 'have you seen the papers?'. Roy had a pop at me, basically saying certain players were throwing one in.
"A day later, he brought me into the office, said I was going to be playing but I didn't deserve to be captain because of my behaviour. Things got animated and he came out and told the papers my reaction was unbelievably overboard.
"But I still thought I would play even though I knew I wouldn't be captain.
"Keane suggested I had my head turned by every Tom, Dick and Harry.
"But I hadn't moaned or told him I wanted to leave. I had trained well. It was disappointing it got made out that I had stamped my foot down when that simply wasn't the case."
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