Keane leaves us wanting more in new book

The release of another ex-Man United star’s autobiography has come and gone but it makes you wonder why it really needed a big launch party at a swanky London hotel with a load of Y-list ‘celebs’ and media groupies present — is the content so lacking?

But whilst Rio Ferdinand might have needed such gimmicks to promote his own tale last week (what do you mean you didn’t even realise?) the headlines which greeted Roy Keane’s The Second Half show that true star quality doesn’t come manufactured.

The fights and bust-ups gained most of the media attention but tales of Keane’s fall-outs with Peter Schmeichel, Carlos Queiroz and Alex Ferguson are by now old hat to seasoned United watchers. What’s interesting is to compare Keane’s version with that in Fergie’s book: both are actually fairly similar but with the obvious difference that in Fergie’s, he renders himself all but blameless. Where does the truth lie?