"I'm as serious a person as you are and I'm able to see the glass as half full."
"Great! Half full, half empty? Can we at least agree it's not full yet?"
So said Toby Ziegler in The West Wing just after his heart was broken for the last and final time.
Robbie Keane has had surgery on his injured knee.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDodUsWG3SH/?taken-by=robbiekeane
There are two ways to look at this...
- We're screwed. Our record goal-scorer is banjoed.
- We're grand. He's getting minor surgery out of the way in time for the Euros.
Within 48 hours of Rob Elliot being ruled out of Euro 2016 with a cruciate injury and
Jon Walters undergoing his own knee surgery, we're inclined to be more fretful.
We could choose to take Keane's defiant words as a soothing balm. He'll be back sooner than ever, sure he said/posted so himself.
Then, this happened:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDoe57hG3VA/?taken-by=robbiekeane
Say a prayer Ireland.
Say 2,016 prayers.
