Gotta profoundly disagree with Bullfrog here. How a player like Roy Keane can not be playing for us in the World Cup beggars belief. It simply isn't credible.

Sure, he is a difficult player to manage but then that is a managers job. Many of the worlds best sports stars have had a self-destruct button that needs to be controlled (John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, George Best, Ian Botham all spring to mind). That is the managers job. Consider alex ferguson for a moment - at one stage he was handling Beckham, Cantona and Keane - all on the one team !!! - now thats management.

Neither Mick McCarthy nor Roy Keane are any great loss to the Diplomatic Corps but McCarthy had one job to do - to get our best team out in the World Cup Finals. In this job he has failed miserably.

BTW I hope to god Greg is displaying his finely honed sense of irony !!!

C'mon Cameroon

Donal