Peter Schmeichel refuses to be sucked in to another Roy Keane row

The daily newspapers had hardly been bundled onto shelves around the country on Wednesday morning when word arrived that Peter Schmeichel wouldn’t talk about Roy Keane when he arrived in Dublin yesterday.

In town for a Carlsberg promotion, the great Dane’s agent had apparently taken note of the Republic of Ireland assistant manager’s assertion this week that he would have “fuck all” to say to his former Manchester United colleague if they were to meet.

That and Keane’s tongue-in-cheek reference to the brawl between the pair 20 years ago when the goalkeeper was supposedly left with a black eye.