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Roy Keane was the first to predict his own role in Saipan. 'In this bad movie I was going to be the fall guy‚' he wrote in the
autobiography published a couple months after the 2002
World Cup and a couple of decades before the Pacific storm hit the big screen. It is the instance when the penny drops in
Keane's own compelling account. His
Republic of Ireland team-mates were not exactly with him. Even if they were not entirely with his boss
Mick McCarthy either. And the moment when he begins to realise that he may have unwittingly helped
McCarthy achieve what he wanted‚ bec
ause the self-destruction of his captain‚ biggest star‚ leader of all-conquering
Manchester United and social hand grenade came in exchange for the relief of enhanced dressing room harmony.