Roy Keane: 'I think Wales got results before without Bale'

If Ireland are to extract a buzz from their final two World Cup group games, then they’re going to have to search for it within, not in the fact that Gareth Bale will be absent for Wales.

Yesterday morning’s breaking news that the Real Madrid superstar is out of the games against Georgia and Ireland might have dominated football conversation here and in Wales but, when he met the daily press a little later in the day, Roy Keane took exception to the idea that it would have created a buzz inside the Irish camp.

“I think that you are way off the point here, talking about a buzz,” he said. “This idea of a buzz and that we were going around knocking on each other’s doors and hugging each other! Jaysus, it’s not...I think Wales got results before without Bale.