Roy Keane ‘shocked’ by Manchester bombing

Roy Keane has expressed his shock at the Manchester bombing atrocity and also revealed his reservations about how much football can hope to achieve in the face of such horror.

The former Manchester United captain said: “When it happens on your doorstep it seems to hit home a bit more. Shocking. It’s the planet we live on. People go out to try and injure innocent people, children. Shocking.”

Keane, whose home is on the outskirts of Manchester, said of his first hearing news of the attack: “I knew where my family were. I knew they were at home. But you always know of people that might be there and thank God my family were not in that area at the time.”