Quinny, Stan, Mick n’ me

THERE is a poster on display in Sunderland’s ground advertising ‘A Spectacular Wedding Fayre At The Stadium Of Light’. The event doesn’t take place until October but anybody wandering into the Directors’ Suite yesterday could have been forgiven for thinking that they had stumbled upon a preview, as celebratory speeches were made and cameras snapped the happy couple at the top table.

It was a sight we thought we’d never see but, no matter how hard you rubbed your eyes, there it was: Niall Quinn and Roy Keane, side by side, smiling broadly and shaking hands for posterity.

Ireland may still have been in of a state of shock, but Keane, by turns funny and forthright yesterday, claimed the call from Quinn had not taken him by surprise.