Tom Tyrrell: ‘He was woven into fabric of Manchester United’

“Keane’s run through, Roy Keane going through, Keane shoots, Roy Keane, oh Roy Keane gets his 50th goal for Manchester United! He’s had a long wait for it, but he hit it running into the penalty area, a bullet into the bottom corner. That’s just what this game needed.”

Iwas 11 days into my job as Sports Editor of Today FM in February 2005 and I knew at that moment if I didn’t make a complete dog’s breakfast of it, I was going to be ok. I was going to be fine because our match commentator on Premiership Live, Tom Tyrrell, had just brilliantly captured Roy Keane’s 50th goal for Manchester United.

Roy Keane is our greatest football icon, so if we had the exclusive right to convey one of his landmark goals to listeners across Ireland, it needed to be done with high quality.