Legends like Roy Keane deliver even when a cause is lost

Roy Keane follows one of the great truisms of sport: the measure of a player can be in how he plays when his team are being beaten. Picture: Matthew Lewis/Getty Images

Micah was laughing but Roy wasn’t joking.

This time the sole source of shtick from this renowned double act was courtesy of Mr Richards himself, cackling in an irritating and ill-timed manner having misread that instead of playing up again to being Angry Old Roy, his Sky colleague had just articulated the essence of the young Roy Keane.