Keane and O’Neill could be perfect match

It was only a matter of time before Martin O’Neill went into international management and it was always going to be a tug of war between the Republic and Northern Ireland, in terms of which job he took on.

Roy Keane, however, is more of a surprise appointment. With the departed Trapattoni accused of being a footballing dinosaur, it will be interesting to see how fans react to O’Neill, who seems to have been tarred with the same boring brush since his time at Sunderland.

In an ideal world O’Neill and Keane could compensate for one another’s strengths and weaknesses.