Sunset Strip better for Keane than bench down at the Lane

KEANE for LA Galaxy? If it comes to pass, we can expect to be deluged with Posh ‘n’ Becks comparisons, as Robbie and Claudine set up home on the West Coast.

But how life on the Sunset Strip impacts on life in the Irish strip will be of more concern to football folk as the skipper and record goalscorer makes the most sensational — and, one presumes, final — move of a have-boots-will-travel career.

Only this week, as he prepared to lead Ireland out against Croatia, the Dubliner was hinting heavily that his time at Spurs was finally up. That had most of his audience pondering a short hop, skip and jump to Leicester or Wolves or West Brom rather than a transatlantic odyssey.