Maurice Brosnan: As a film, ‘Saipan’ stands up. For the truth, we have real sport

Saipan is a good movie. So does the inaccurate depiction of so many people and events matter? 

Eanna Hardwicke as Roy Keane in a screenshot from Saipan

Beware that old scourge. Every season, every sport, will suffer its wrath. Over and over again, a battle-hardened combatant will emerge from the long grass and take aim at one perennial enemy: The narrative.

Lazy narratives. Debunked narratives. The narrative that is out there, apparently left to wander while nobody was watching the gate. The sporting person’s bogeyman. A catch-all cliché that somehow manages to capture everything and nothing at the same time. Written off? The narrative. Over-hyped? Same culprit.