Keane linked with return to Forest roots

Roy Keane has been linked with an emotional return to the club he started his career in England with after Nottingham Forest yesterday sacked Steve Cotterill.

The Al-Hasawi family from Kuwait assumed control of the Championship club on Tuesday and wasted little time in implementing their plans for the Reds, parting company with Cotterill within 48 hours.

Keane enjoyed a three-year spell at Forest as a player between 1990 and 1993 and quickly emerged as one of the bookies’ favourites to replace Cotterill along with ex-Ireland boss and Keane’s former adversary Mick McCarthy and Peterborough boss Darren Ferguson.