Rebel rouser

SO ROY KEANE says that Liam Miller’s being from Cork is a factor in the Sunderland player’s omission from the Irish squad for today’s game against Wales and Wednesday’s against Slovakia.

I say Roy Keane is wrong. But then I’m from Dublin. So I would say that, wouldn’t I? On the other hand, my dear old ma hailed from Mayfield. Does that make my credentials less suspect?

It certainly helped the first time I encountered Roy Keane. I was the new Sunday Press soccer correspondent at the time and, understandably, the Cork man didn’t know me from Adam when I suddenly pounced on him in the car park outside the City Ground in Nottingham.