Roy Keane Felt Response To Peter Crouch Tweet Summed Up 'English Arrogance'

Roy Keane has hit out at English football fans and pundits after the country's World Cup semi-final exit at the hands of Argentina.

Never one to mince his words, Keane felt that England's fans and media got ahead of themselves before the World Cup had even started and were reading too much into early phase results.

England took the lead through an Anthony Gordon goal in Wednesday night's match in Atlanta before late goals from Enzo Fernandez and Lautaro Martínez helped to send Lionel Scaloni's side to a second World Cup final in a row.

For England, it was more tournament disappointment, with a lot of the blame being laid at manager Thomas Tuchel's door. Having recruited proven winner Tuchel to finally get them over the line, the fallout has been typically harsh and unforgiving in England.

Roy Keane Felt Response To Peter Crouch Tweet Summed Up 'English Arrogance'

On the most recent episode of Stick To Football, Roy Keane, Gary Neville, Ian Wright and Peter Crouch were discussing the aftermath of England's World Cup exit.

Crouch was shocked at the vitriol that surrounded the exit of the English team, he referred to a now deleted tweet he posted in the aftermath of the Argentina defeat.

Crouch's tweet read:

Gutted we are out, but watching Argentina was an experience, Messi's a genius and a hard bastard as well like the rest of them. I'm proud of our lads and what they've achieved at the World Cup, some real heroes emerged and it was a pleasure to have been here for it.

Roy Keane felt the anger which was displayed in the replies summed up a long running problem in English football.

I think this is the bit of arrogance with English fans comes into it and pundits or whatever because, what they got beaten in a semi-final? The World Cup is going on for nearly 100 years and England have won it once. There's been 23 World Cups so why are they thinking they should be winning it? They're competing, they came up short, that's what happens in sport unfortunately.

Keane felt that despite England possessing what many tipped as a squad capable of winning the World Cup, the margins at the elite level are so fine that a semi-final exit was not the gigantic failure some England supporters and pundits were framing it to be.

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