Keane will make a fantastic manager, insists McLaren

ENGLAND boss Steve McClaren has warned Roy Keane he will not have to go looking for confrontation if he accepts Sunderland’s offer to launch his management career.

The 35-year-old former Manchester United captain is understood to be in talks with Black Cats’ chairman and former international team-mate Niall Quinn over the vacant post at the Stadium of Light. Keane’s proposed appointment has sparked a debate over his famously combustible temperament but McClaren – who worked closely with the midfielder during his time as Alex Ferguson’s number two – is confident he could handle whatever confrontation came his way.

McClaren said: “In the process of management, you do not have to seek it, it will come to you. And put it this way, whatever confrontation comes to him, he will be able to handle.