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🚨Roy Keane on on Jesús Owono’s life-ending challenge on Jesús de Miguel during the FC Andorra vs Tenerife match: 🗣️ “The goalkeeper’s allowed to come out. That’s his job. But not like that. Not with the knee up like that, not at that speed, not with that much force when a man’s running onto the ball and can’t even see him coming. Winning the ball is one thing. Taking another player’s life is another. You don’t get to treat a human being like an obstacle just because you’re trying to clear a ball in the 97th minute of a 2-2. I’ve seen some nasty collisions in this game. Higuaín and Neuer in the World Cup final — that was horrible to watch. But this… this is different. The speed, the way the knee comes up, the impact into the chest… and a man dies. At 30. That’s not a football incident anymore. That’s something I struggle to even process. He was a husband. A father. His partner and their little girl were in the stadium watching. They came to see him play football. They expected him to come home. Instead they got the worst news imaginable. That’s what this is about. Not the red card, not the three points, not Owono’s career. A 30-year-old man went out to do his job and never went home to his family. A red card is nowhere near enough. Not for this. The Spanish authorities need to look at this properly. They need to examine every angle — the challenge, the force, whether there was any criminal negligence or something more serious. If the investigation finds serious wrongdoing, then there have to be proper consequences. Football sanctions, and if the law says so, legal ones. A lifetime ban should be on the table if that’s what the evidence supports. An apology and a red card don’t wipe this away. We’ve normalised dangerous challenges for too long. Players need to understand that their decisions have real consequences. A match, three points, a trophy, a career — none of it is worth another man’s life. None of it. This isn’t about the scoreline. It isn’t about the goalkeeper. It isn’t about the referee. It’s about a 30-year-old father who went out to play football and never came home. That’s the only conversation that matters.”