Keane sending out right signal by staying put

He hasn’t gone away, you know.

But nor, one suspects, has any number of stories which will link Roy Keane with any number of clubs between now and when he does finally and definitively cut his Irish ties.

Hopefully, that will be later rather than sooner — and, ideally, not before he has sat in the dug-out alongside Martin O’Neill and watched Ireland perform with distinction in the green fields of France two summers from now.