Celtic and Roy - A match made in Paradise

AS you will read elsewhere in these pages today, your correspondent happened to be in the company of Damien Duff on Thursday morning when the news broke that Roy Keane had signed on the dotted line for Celtic.

I'd just switched off the tape recorder and switched on the mobile phone when a text popped up to say that the deal had finally been done.

I gave the news to Duff and was taken aback when a look of what I first took to be shock registered on his face.