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🚨🎙️Roy Keane on the backlash surrounding Kylian Mbappe’s comments about Chinese leader Mao Zedong: 🗣️“The whole thing is complete nonsense. Absolute nonsense. Look, let's be completely honest about what’s actually happened here. We’re talking about a joke—a silly internet meme or a bit of banter about Kylian being called a 'dictator'—something that literally hundreds of thousands of people across social media have laughed at, giggled over, and scrolled past every single day. It’s internet culture. It’s harmless, casual commentary. So why on earth are people suddenly acting like this is some malicious, calculated attack? It’s not like Kylian came out in a formal press conference to seriously mock, degrade, or disrespect anyone. He’s just existing online, having a laugh like anyone else does, and people have completely stripped it out of context to blow it up into a massive, disproportionate geopolitical scandal. Drawing a line between a historical figure and an entire nation of people isn't complicated. If someone can’t separate political history from a footballer chuckling at a meme made about himself, that’s on them. Chairman Mao is a global historical figure, and people outside China are going to hold views on him. That doesn’t mean Mbappé got out of bed looking to wage war on a billion people. If this meme was fair game when thousands of random accounts were circulating it for views, it doesn't suddenly become an international incident the second Mbappé laughs along. You can't peddle the joke for months and then feign outrage the moment the lad at the center of it stops being your punchline and joins in. That isn't moral outrage—it’s pure hypocrisy. And honestly, the whole process isn't fair on Mbappé at all. Imagine making an innocent, self-deprecating joke online, and the next thing you know, you're facing this insane level of international backlash, involving La Liga, government officials, and everything else under the sun. It just goes to show how little it takes to trigger an extreme reaction from China over something so trivial. Flying off the handle like this doesn't represent them well at all—it doesn't reflect the maturity or stature of what a country like that should stand for on the world stage. At the end of the day, a footballer saw a joke about himself and found it funny. That is literally all that happened. Everything else is just people manufacturing drama because it suits their narrative today. I don’t issue apologies when I’ve done nothing wrong, and he shouldn't either. If I were in that Madrid dressing room, I’d tell him to pull his socks up, ignore the noise, and put the ball in the back of the net on Saturday. Let them issue all the statements they want—he shouldn't say a single word back."