A warning from history

"Jesus, it was unbelievable … he slaughtered everyone … it was horrendous … venomous … he absolutely overstepped the mark … the worst imaginable spectacle…”

For those already inclined to take a jaundiced view of the concept of Roy Keane as manager of Ireland, Alex Ferguson’s book will resound like a warning from history.

The quotes above, with a snatch of Carlos Quieroz thrown in, form the bloody guts of Fergie’s account of the player’s infamous 2005 gloves-off critique of some of his Manchester United team-mates and the manager himself, a flashpoint incident which, we’re told, made up Fergie’s mind that he was “finished with” Keane at Old Trafford.