Roy Keane looks to beat his boss... for a good cause

When Roy Keane is in the dugout, can it ever be called a ‘friendly’?

“Martin will want to beat me, and I’ll want to beat Martin, that’s where the pride kicks in. You want to do well, I’m looking forward to it,” Roy told the assembled press in Cork City Hall yesterday.

The Martin is Martin O’Neill, Roy’s boss. The occasion isn’t a cup final or league decider but a tribute to Liam Miller, another Cork man who, like Keane wore the colours of Manchester United, Celtic, and Republic of Ireland before he passed away earlier this year at just 36 following a battle with cancer.