ARSENE WENGER accepts football is very much a confidence game — but has every belief Arsenal can deliver the required performance to bounce back from their midweek Carling Cup horror show with victory at Premier League bottom club West Ham today.

NEW Ipswich Town boss Paul Jewell has backed his predecessor Roy Keane to go on to be a success in management despite last week’s sacking by the Championship club.

IPSWICH manager Roy Keane admits he is feeling the pain as his side face into a relegation battle after their sixth straight Championship defeat.

ROY KEANE has revealed that he recently called in a sports psychologist in a bid to halt Ipswich’s slide down the Championship. The Tractor Boys boss takes his 17th-placed team to Preston North End tomorrow looking to end a run of five successive league defeats.

UNDERFIRE Roy Keane conceded that five successive league defeats is “unacceptable” after his Ipswich side threw away a lead to lose 3-1 at home to Swansea City on Saturday.

THE pressure is piling on Ipswich boss Roy Keane after his side slumped to their fourth successive defeat, hammered 4-1 by rivals Norwich yesterday.

ROY KEANE has accused Giovanni Trapattoni’s Ireland set-up of a lack of professionalism after Ipswich defender Darren O’Dea returned from international duty with a hamstring injury sustained during a second half in which he wasn’t expected to play.

IPSWICH TOWN chief executive Simon Clegg has dismissed suggestions of tensions between himself and Roy Keane and says he shares his manager’s frustrations regarding the slow progress of some transfers into Portman Road this summer.

ROY KEANE is famous for his focus. As a player he claimed he forgot about what he won within seconds of winning it. The target was always the next match, the next season, the next trophy.

TRUST Keano to confound expectations. Notwithstanding an excellent performance by a young, fast improving Finn Harps side, you had to imagine that Roy Keane would be considerably less than impressed at seeing his Ipswich Town Championship contenders lose 2-1 to a First Division League of Ireland team at Finn Park on Tuesday night, in what was the Tractor Boys’ first outing ahead of the new season.

Finn Harps FC are pleased to announce that they will play a friendly fixture against Roy Keane’s Ipswich Town at Finn Park, Ballybofey on Tuesday July 7 (kick-off 8pm).

SERENE Suffolk is no more — the Roy is back in town.

Ipswich have pulled off a coup with the capture of Mexican forward Giovani dos Santos on loan from Tottenham.

Charlton are set to sign Ipswich Town striker Darren Bent for a fee that could rise to £3m (€4.44m).

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Arsenal were on course to reclaim top spot in the Premiership after dominating the opening half of their north London derby against Tottenham.

Ipswich boss George Burley has been named Carling Manager of the Year.