Keane: The Autobiography

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His tolerance for anything that didn’t meet his standards was incredibly low – yet slightly hypocritical when his own drinking had to be having a damaging impact on his own game.

I only played with him for two seasons at the end of my career, and he had some injuries, but I saw more than enough to appreciate his brilliance. Not at all sycophantic as many of these sports bios can be, instead this is just like Keano was on the field. A genuine pleasure; it is a masterpiece of the genre and one that paints, in an entirely unintentional way, an extremely flattering portrait of the man . A man as “tough” as he could still endlessly complain about the lack of resources of the Irish national team.A very good read - we're given alot of information about the young life of Roy Keane that established him as the footballing superstar he became. An appeal, should one be forthcoming, will be heard by a different committee, headed by an independent QC and two senior figures from the FA council with legal backgrounds. After spending four years as a player, Roy became the captain in 1997, a role he would hold for four years.

The allegation, Keane said, “hurt me … the idea that I’d almost bragged about deliberately injuring a player, in the hope of selling some extra books”. Photograph: Kieran Galvin/EPA Photograph: Kieran Galvin/EPA Tragic hero: the trials and tribulations of Aston Villa assistant manager Roy Keane, as told by Roddy Doyle.But passages in isolation do not capture the sheer self-rightous, Where the Wild Things Are pride of both parties. The professional athlete that we see on our televisions are as fictitious as any literary character, and thus I can judge Roy Keane as a character; and I’ve always liked characters in books or movies that have contradictions. The Ferguson regime at Old Trafford along with some juicy details of the famous dressing room hairdryer. It can be fascinating to see how the same events or relationships are told differently with the benefit of more experience or changed dynamics. Our hero, close to godlike, even though he says it himself, wins through multiple battles and triumphs: he carries his brothers ( Darren Fletcher and the Nevilles in the case of Keane, Trotty and Harmy for KP) when they falter, he never once wavers in his fortitude or spirit, lends glory to all he touches, but is inevitably, at the last, misunderstood and betrayed by men who, in honour and courage, are barely fit to lace his Nikes.