O’Neill: Keane and Fergie owe each other

Martin O’Neill hopes Roy Keane and Alex Ferguson can overcome their bitter war of words to acknowledge their mutual debt.

“The two of them were brilliant for each other over a number of years and I think that’s something that shouldn’t be forgotten over time,” the Ireland manager has said. “People can have their arguments and who am I to step into anyone else’s argument, who am I to intervene?

“I’m not [doing] that, but what I maintain is that the two of them were magnificent for each other and from an outsider’s viewpoint it’d be nice if at some stage or another they recognise that publicly. I know that deep down they know they were superb for each other.”