Roy Keane - new assistant manager (CONFIRMED)

[Risso]

[PeterWithe]

Just noticed his ghostwriter is Roddy Doyle, is that the Commitments Roddy Doyle or a namesake?

[Big Dick Edwards]

Just noticed his ghostwriter is Roddy Doyle, is that the Commitments Roddy Doyle or a namesake?

It's the same Roddy Doyle.

[Holte Sweet]

I often find myself wondering theses days whether clubs employ people as much for PR reasons as for football .

[Chris Smith]

Just noticed his ghostwriter is Roddy Doyle, is that the Commitments Roddy Doyle or a namesake?

It's the same Roddy Doyle.

There is a piece in the Guardian today, when Roddy met Roy, about it. This quote amused me:

As a Chelsea fan, Doyle says, he always used to take “a certain pleasure in seeing him sent off”. But even then, he adds approvingly, “he always seemed to home in on people you’d like to see suffer a bit, like Alan Shearer. All the lads he went for had a certain git quality. His taste in enemies was quite good.”

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/10/roy-keane-roddy-doyle-the-second-half

[CJ]

Wonder if the beard's gone so he matches the picture on the front of his book? Coincidence? I think not

[Chico Hamilton III]

Just noticed his ghostwriter is Roddy Doyle, is that the Commitments Roddy Doyle or a namesake?

It's the same Roddy Doyle.

I was thumbing through the book in Sainsburys today and I noticed that the photos in the middle had all been printed twice. Checked another copy and it was exactly the same. Strange. There's a picture of Keane in a Villa tracky with Lambert. Actually, there's two pictures.

[eamonn]

I doubt its full of tits, fanny and Villa.

[PeterWithesShin]

Roy Keane has said he will quit Aston Villa if his work with the Republic of Ireland suffers.

Paul Lambert's assistant manager at Villa Park is also No.2 to Martin O'Neill at the Republic of Ireland – and he said Villa boss Lambert was well aware of his position.

“I feel that if I am taking my eye off the ball with Ireland, then I will leave Aston Villa,” said Keane.

“There is no doubt about that. I have told Paul Lambert that, told Martin that and told the FAI that.

“But at the moment, it is OK. If we lose three or four on the spin (with Ireland), then I will leave Villa.

“But I’m still getting to games, I am on the training pitch at Villa, improving and am working with Irish lads like young Jack Grealish.

“The guilt would kill me if I thought ‘I am on a cushy one here’. I couldn’t work that way.

“I said before that you could do only one job, but I said that because I was only in the Ireland job a short period of time.

“I didn’t just jump into it with Villa. I sat down with Paul Lambert, had a think, and sat down Martin and the FAI and thought, I can adapt to this.

“It felt like a full-time job, but, having been in the Ireland job a while, I felt I could manage to do both.”

Meanwhile, Keane praised his namesake Robbie following the striker’s 12-minute hat-trick in the Republic’s 7-0 European Championship qualifying victory over Gibraltar on Saturday.

“He keeps doing it, he keeps doing the business and trains well, he’s a good professional. I’m not surprised by that at all,’’ said Keane.

[Villan For Life]

Just noticed his ghostwriter is Roddy Doyle, is that the Commitments Roddy Doyle or a namesake?

It's the same Roddy Doyle.

I was thumbing through the book in Sainsburys today and I noticed that the photos in the middle had all been printed twice. Checked another copy and it was exactly the same. Strange. There's a picture of Keane in a Villa tracky with Lambert. Actually, there's two pictures.

I noticed that in Waterstones, very odd.

I also checked the Villa references in the index and there are a few words about joining the Villa. He said we were a club that he "always had a soft spot" for us. Soft spot because of a guaranteed 6 points every season, eh Roy?

[Ron Manager]

Roy Keane has said he will quit Aston Villa if his work with the Republic of Ireland suffers.

Paul Lambert's assistant manager at Villa Park is also No.2 to Martin O'Neill at the Republic of Ireland – and he said Villa boss Lambert was well aware of his position.

“I feel that if I am taking my eye off the ball with Ireland, then I will leave Aston Villa,” said Keane.

“There is no doubt about that. I have told Paul Lambert that, told Martin that and told the FAI that.

“But at the moment, it is OK. If we lose three or four on the spin (with Ireland), then I will leave Villa.

“But I’m still getting to games, I am on the training pitch at Villa, improving and am working with Irish lads like young Jack Grealish.

“The guilt would kill me if I thought ‘I am on a cushy one here’. I couldn’t work that way.

“I said before that you could do only one job, but I said that because I was only in the Ireland job a short period of time.

“I didn’t just jump into it with Villa. I sat down with Paul Lambert, had a think, and sat down Martin and the FAI and thought, I can adapt to this.

“It felt like a full-time job, but, having been in the Ireland job a while, I felt I could manage to do both.”

Meanwhile, Keane praised his namesake Robbie following the striker’s 12-minute hat-trick in the Republic’s 7-0 European Championship qualifying victory over Gibraltar on Saturday.

“He keeps doing it, he keeps doing the business and trains well, he’s a good professional. I’m not surprised by that at all,’’ said Keane.

I thought things were going too well with Roy Keane. I now feel he might leave at a minutes notice if something or someone upsets him.

I suppose it was always going to be like that in fact.

[Duncan Shaw]

To be honest I think it's a nothing story that the Mail have sensationlised into a headline on a slow news day.  We knew when he came he said he'd see how it would balance and that the Ireland job was his priority.  He is away with Ireland at the moment and has been asked in the context of how it affects Ireland so has re-iterated that priority, but also said it is all fine at the moment.

[supertom]

I'm enjoying having Keano here but I've never, and still don't, expect him to last a year here. So I'm enjoying the (slightly barmy) ride while it lasts.

[Chico Hamilton III]

“I feel that if I am taking my eye off the ball with Ireland, then I will leave Aston Villa,” said Keane.

“But at the moment, it is OK. If we lose three or four on the spin (with Ireland), then I will leave Villa.

What if he loses three or four on the spin (with Villa)? he's deluded if he thinks he's the master of his own destiny.

I'm beginning to really go off him. I know he's flogging a book so he's courting all the publicity he can, but he's bigger news than the club at the moment, which can't be right. Just shut your fucking face, Roy, and get this team sorted 

[Toronto Villa]

as it relates specifically to Villa there's been nothing barmy about it. It's been all rather sedate. Not unless you consider who is in the game, his past, his beard and his book as part of the experience.