Keane quizzed McGuinness

Top GAA boss Jim McGuinness has revealed how Roy Keane quizzed him for several hours about how he managed to win the All-Ireland.

The Donegal manager met the former Man Utd star at the recent Champions League game between Celtic and Barcelona in Glasgow.

“We spoke for a few hours. He was mad to know about Donegal and I was mad to know about his life,” he said at a Donegal Vocational Education Committee Adult Learner Fair.

“He said to me ‘why did you win the All-Ireland?’. I said ‘we won the All-Ireland because we were very focused. Why did you win the All-Ireland? Because they were very dedicated. Why did you win the All-Ireland? Because we took it to a very high intensity level. Why did you win the All-Ireland? Because we tried to be professional. Why did you win the All-Ireland? Because we worked hard every day’.

“This was the conversation. And every time he asked me the question I thought about it and I gave him the answer. And he said ‘That’s it’. Good players who are very focused and training at a very high intensity level.

“That’s the magic formula and that’s what you’ve just told me and that’s what we done at Man United.

“He said ‘David Beckham used to say to me when we were walking off from training that the match was a joke compared to that training.”

McGuinness told hundreds of people planning to return to education that only they had the ability to turn their lives around and fulfil their dreams.