Former Republic of Ireland captain Roy Keane has lifted the lid on his quarrel with Mick McCarthy which saw him sent home before the 2002 World Cup. The infamous bust-up between the pair occurred while the team were preparing for the upcoming 2002 World Cup on the Japanese Island of Saipan. The facilities were so poor that the team arrived without footballs and Keane did not hold back on McCarthy's handling of it. After much drama‚ angst‚ and conflict‚ Keane‚ who was‚ without a doubt‚ Ireland's best player at the time‚ left the camp before the start of the tournament‚ much to the anger and dismay of the Irish.

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Mick McCarthy has made his lingering feelings on Roy Keane - and the new Steve Coogan film depicting their 2002 World Cup fall-out - very clear in an x-rated speech at an event this week. McCarthy and Keane's two decade-long feud was dredged up this year with the release of Saipan‚ which sees Steve Coogan and Eanna Hardwicke star as the manager and captain of Ireland on a fateful pre-World Cup trip. The pair fell out at the Republic of Ireland's training camp on the pacific island of Saipan almost 24 years ago. The facilities were so poor that the team arrived without footballs and Keane did not hold back on McCarthy's handling of it. After much drama‚ angst and conflict‚ he flew home.

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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‚ because 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.

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