Nothing funny or clever about Benitez’s treatment of Keane

THEY like a joke in Liverpool. And now football has given them one. It is called the Robbie Keane saga.

What a wonderful day ladies and gentleman. What a time to fork out £20 million (€22m), buy a centre forward, leave him on the bench each week and say: How’s that for a striker with no matches?

That might be the Ken Dodd way of viewing how Keane has been shuttled between pitch and bench and stand and reserves in what is rapidly turning into one of football’s most traumatic career moves.