Richard Keogh: Derby County sack captain for 'gross misconduct'

[millertop]

Never said it did make sense

I guess club is probably thinking he was thinking straight when he got in the car with a drunk driver and should have known better.

Personally I think all 3 should be sacked with a 3 year ban from football

They offered him reduced wages but he refused so they sacked him for refusing a pay cut, now his lawyers are fighting his sacking

He doesn’t drive and wasn’t wearing a seat belt so he’s an idiot

Did he not drink? The three were at the bar when others had left

[Scum-Triumphant]

This link Says he was drinking.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...21466.html?amp

[Scum-Triumphant]

All 3 are as bad as each other. Keogh is the oldest, the most injured and the least valuable.

Derby are a ****ehouse of a club and should’ve either sacked all 3 or kept all 3.

[Silly-miller]

He doesn’t drive and wasn’t wearing a seat belt so he’s an idiot

Did he not drink? The three were at the bar when others had left

Don’t know if he drank or not but tbh there’s rumours that he stayed to watch the other two but tbh it doesn’t matter he wasn’t driving. It make derby look bad tbh they look like they will over look criminals so long as they can play

I don’t have a police report just know what my dad reads on his fan page and dcfc news

[Silly-miller]

All 3 are as bad as each other. Keogh is the oldest, the most injured and the least valuable.

Derby are a ****ehouse of a club and should’ve either sacked all 3 or kept all 3.

Well I can’t argue with that

Lesson of the day don’t listen to ya dads half assed reading powers lol

[flourbasher]

Understandably there's been lots of conjecture following the sacking of Richard Keogh - with many questioning why the club captain has been sacked, yet Mason Bennett and Tom Lawrence have kept their jobs.

It's understood several factors counted against Keogh. He was the club captain, a senior player and it was felt he should have taken more responsibility on the night in question. These reasons, coupled with a serious injury sustained through a non-football activity, are why the club have felt it necessary to terminate Keogh's contract.

We almost certainly haven't heard the last of this, with Keogh expected to appeal against the decision.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Understandably there's been lots of conjecture following the sacking of Richard Keogh - with many questioning why the club captain has been sacked, yet Mason Bennett and Tom Lawrence have kept their jobs.

It's understood several factors counted against Keogh. He was the club captain, a senior player and it was felt he should have taken more responsibility on the night in question. These reasons, coupled with a serious injury sustained through a non-football activity, are why the club have felt it necessary to terminate Keogh's contract.

We almost certainly haven't heard the last of this, with Keogh expected to appeal against the decision.

I would have thought that all football clubs (inc RUFC) have contract clauses that require players not to undertake activities that can cause injury, ie hang gliding, playing amateur rugby etc. Whilst getting drunk and crashing cars is an extreme example of "putting self at risk" it would probably still let the club punish Keogh in this way.

However, not applying the same rule to their other two players seems to be an indication that there's playing time left in them where Keogh hasn't.

But hey. it's football, all about money not fairness

[WanChaiMiller]

The free market at work.

[CAMiller]

I wasn't aware that fully grown men earning what they earn needed a baby sitter.