Roy Keane makes funny quip on future son-in-law’s debut goal as England beat Ireland 5-0 to gain A league promotion.
Roy Keane has joked his daughter’s engagement to Taylor Harwood-Bellis is “not done and dusted”. The Southampton defender scored on his England debut against the Republic of Ireland.
Harwood-Bellis offended his prospective father-in-law by scoring the game-winning goal in England’s 5-0 beating of Ireland. Harwood-Bellis plans to marry Keane’s daughter Leah.
It happened 17 minutes after he made his debut, capping an unforgettable evening for the 22-year-old at Wembley.
Keane, who played 67 times for Ireland between 1991 and 2005, said while working as a pundit for ITV: “It’s bittersweet for me this. It is not done and dusted yet. Things can change very quickly in the Keane household, let me tell you. Over the last few months he has got a goal threat, even playing for Southampton. It is nice for him.
“It’s good for him, it’s good for him to make his debut, like I say he has a goal threat. He’s a nice kid, his family have done a great job, he is a really nice kid.”
Heimir Hallgrímsson, meanwhile, was angry with his team’s crushing 5-0 loss at Wembley and implied that his players “gave up” following Liam Scales’ dismissal.
“I’m lost for words.” the Republic of Ireland manager said, after the penalty incident and red card preceded three goals in six minutes for England. “Six minutes of kind of madness. Yeah, it was a shock, conceding a penalty, conceding a goal, losing a player. We probably lost our heads at this moment, leading into a second goal and a third goal. And from there you can see, yeah, we maybe lost our head, gave up.
“We’ve talked and I said before we’re struggling with confidence, and they clearly took away all confidence from what we did really well in the first half. So, yeah, you cannot explain things like this. It just happened. It is a slap in the face and was difficult to come back from it.”