Old foes left with plenty to ponder

EVEN with precious little other than pride at stake, it would have been out of character for Roy Keane or Arsene Wenger to lose any focus. That said, they could have been excused yesterday if their thoughts occasionally drifted to events elsewhere.

Both are well versed in the intensity of the climax to a Premier League campaign, Keane from his days as Manchester United captain and Wenger as manager of arch-rivals Arsenal.

The fact that neither of them had any say in the destiny of the title yesterday was, of course, a far greater source of chagrin to Frenchman Wenger than Keane, who was always going to have to be content with survival in his first season in top flight management.