Keane meets Keane as Cork hails Roy

He famously quoted “fail to prepare, prepare to fail” at the height of the Saipan controversy, and in his new book explains that for him being “on time” for training means showing up half an hour early.

So Roy Keane must have been impressed by the dedication on show as his native Cork queued for hours to meet the assistant Ireland manager at a book signing yesterday.

Keane was joined by ghostwriter Roddy Doyle at Eason’s on St Patrick’s Street, where the pair posed for photos and signed copies of The Second Half, the former Manchester United captain’s second autobiography.