Store’s own goal hits Roy Keane's book of revelations

It’s supposed to be one of the literary events of the year, but Thursday’s launch of Roy Keane’s book The Second Half has already been scuppered by the type of basic error the Irish assistant manager might rail against.

Tesco has launched an investigation in the UK after one of its Manchester stores put copies of the book up for sale three days early.

That ensured all manner of details and revelations are already in the public domain, despite the attempts of publishers Weidenfeld and Nicolson to embargo the entire contents until Thursday’s launch at the RDS in Dublin.