Roy Keane: Let’s make Ireland proud

Roy Keane is refusing to fix a boundary to the march of the nation at Euro 2016.

Ireland’s assistant manager spoke infectiously yesterday about how exciting and memorable an experience it had been for the management and players as Ireland booked their passage to France with that play-off victory over Bosnia last November.

“But that’s over with now, all that stops,” he said, abruptly changing gear. “It’s refocus now on what we can bring to the tournament and have an Irish team we can be proud of. Go over there and be remembered. Don’t go over there with the attitude that we’re just happy to be here. We can’t. Thank God we don’t have a manager who thinks that way. Same with the staff and the players.