‘Trigger’: Keane more suited to deputy role

Roy Keane may find he is perfectly suited to being in the number two seat, according to his old enemy and international team-mate, Jason McAteer.

Keane has enjoyed an impressive start as assistant to Martin O’Neill as the new management has overseen a win and a draw against Latvia and Poland respectively.

The former Manchester United skipper will warm to a long-term stint in the job and realise that his spells in charge of Sunderland and Ipswich did not go exactly according to plan for very good reasons, reckons McAteer, who believes O’Neill can control the 42-year-old’s temper and bring some new qualities out in him as a coach.