BOHEMIAN Rhapsody was a flamboyant piece to begin with but give it to a character called Macartacus pining “I’m a poor manager, nobody loves me” to competing choruses of “Let him go”, “No, no, do not let him go,” and not even Freddie Mercury in a space shuttle could go further over the top.

‘ROY RAGE’ was one of the biggest back page headlines of the week, suggesting the confrontation with Patrick Vieira in the tunnel at Highbury marked a return to the good old bad old days for His Corkness.

THEY think it’s all over ... well it’s only just begun. I, Keano, the musical show of Roy Keane’s infamous Saipan row with Mick McCarthy, opens at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre from next Tuesday, February 8 until February 19.

The Saipan saga, which rocked Irish soccer, is set to divide the nation again except this time the battlefield will be Dublin’s Olympia Theatre.

HE came, he saw and he went home in a tiff.