Ready to rewrite the pages of history

Right or wrong? Who knows? The days when there are absolutes in sport, much less life, are getting rarer, but when human emotion is involved, perspectives will always be blurred.

Roy Keane's leaving of Ireland was complicated. Sport, passion, one man's crusade, Irishness, Englishness, treachery, traitors, heroism and heroes. Isolation and vindication.

At a human level, the most longed-for volte face in Irish sport is littered with emotional land mines. Saipan saw to that. But assume this position and read on the full story did not confer right on anyone's side. There was no black or white, and there never will be. Mick McCarthy made mistakes, so did Roy Keane. They've moved on. Let's try that.