Keane offers advice to Coleman as he ‘starts all over again’

On the day Ireland captain Seamus Coleman was in Liverpool breaking his silence about his injury nightmare, former skipper Robbie Keane was in Dublin offering words of advice to the Donegal man as he begins the long road to recovery at Everton.

Keane was in the Aviva last month on the night Coleman’s leg was badly broken in a tackle by Neil Taylor, whose red card punishment was yesterday extended by FIFA to a two-match ban, meaning he will miss Wales’ next World Cup qualifiers against Serbia and Austria.

For Coleman, of course, the punishment is far greater, with the full-back ruled out for the rest of this season and, potentially, for the year.