Former team-mates must bury hatchet

YOU can already hear people humming the theme tune to The Odd Couple.

Chairman Quinny and Gaffer Keano – who could ever have predicted this double act? If last night’s sensational news is confirmed, Niall Quinn has pulled off the most unlikely coup in securing Roy Keane’s services as the new manager of struggling Sunderland.

Here, after all, are two men who were widely perceived to be on opposite banks of the great divide which opened up on the island of Saipan in 2002. Mick McCarthy may have been Keane’s nemesis in Irish sport’s greatest ever civil war, but it seemed as if Niall Quinn wasn’t too far behind.