Only the media will shed tears for Keane

Philip Ham has had a front row seat for Roy Keane’s Ipswich Town career. He recalls the highs and lows of two tumultuous years dealing with the Corkman.

THEY said it would never work, the marriage of genteel Ipswich Town from sleepy Suffolk and football’s one-man riot, Roy Keane.

And they were so right. From (almost) start to finish Keane’s time at Portman Road has been a massive and expensive footballing failure, one which was brought to an end when owner and chairman Marcus Evans gave the Cork man the bad news by phone on Thursday afternoon.