Keane takes it one game at a time

IT’S surely only a matter of time now before the Black Cats are officially renamed the Green Cats.

To an Irish manager, Irish chairman, Irish board members and Irish players, Sunderland have now added another Irish dimension, with bookmakers Boylesports set to take overfrom Reg Vardy as the club's official sponsor at the end of the season.

At the Stadium of Light yesterday, Roy Keane made suitably approving noises about the new deal, while never leaving anyone in doubt about where his main priorities lie.