Keane autobiography review

Brilliantly reviewed, Roy Keane''s riveting, brutally honest autobiography has the potential to be one of the year''s biggest paperback bestsellers.
Were two men ever more cruelly wronged?
Rereading Keane: The Autobiography (2002), I'm struck by just how good the book is.

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Roy Keane book review: The manner of Manchester United departure has stayed with him... the emotional ties are still there. Cold-faced Corkman shows insecurity and peculiar need to please

When it became clear that Roy Keane's second autobiography had reached the shelves early, two former Manchester United players got in touch to make enquiries.

'What has he said about me?' was the rather anxious tone.

Typical Keane. Still making people nervous. As his first book told us 12 years earlier, when Keane cuts you, he cuts deep.

Aston Villa assistant manager Roy Keane is all set to release his second autobiography this week

The former Manchester United captain (restrained by Paul Parker and Gary Neville) wrote of problems with goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel

Frank Lebouf, Marcel Desailly, Roberto Di Matteo and Gus Poyet all go at Keane during a Charity Shield Final in 2000

Keane (right, alongside Carlos Quieroz, Laurent Blanc, David Beckham and Ryan Giggs) opens up about difficulties he endured while at Old Trafford

This, however, is a different book to the first,

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Book review: Contradictions, complexity and the quintessential Roy Keane

What's your favourite Roy Keane story? Is it Robbie Savage's voicemail, John Hartson's crisps or Abba on the bus at Sunderland? Is it the one about the frightening obsessive who maintains his hold on an audience, and his own enigmatic reputation, through a decade of revealing interviews, TV appearances, books and beard growth? Is it the one Roy Keane tells or the one Roy Keane is?

In a thoughtful piece as long ago as 2005, the year of the great Manchester United bust-up, British sportswriter Simon Barnes wrote about how Keane had "mellowed". Like global warming, Keane's mellowing has always been difficult to detect with the naked eye, and is absolutely denied by some. The process appears to have been going on for as long as anyone can remember, to the point where it has become – all credit to the lad – one of football's great cliches.

The focus on the Alex Ferguson feud, the sport's most tiresome quarrel, at Thursday's book launch in Dublin suggested that recent signs of a genuine softening in Keane's thin

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Reviews of Keane: The Autobiography by Roy Keane with Eamonn Dunphy (2002) and The Second Half by Roy Keane with Roddy Doyle (2014)

Whenever I read a sportsman’s second autobiography (usually published a bit after they have retired), I always like to reread their first one (usually published at peak of their carer). It can be fascinating to see how the same events or relationships are told differently with the benefit of more experience or changed dynamics. I hope to reread and write about some of my favourite double autobiographies. First up, the Manchester United and Ireland legend, Roy Keane!

Roy Keane had an exceptional playing career which combined huge achievement with equal amounts of controversy. It’s impossible to have followed English football in the 90’s and naughties and not have a strong opinion either way. For an Irish fan, it’s even harder to not to love or loathe him.

Rereading Keane: The Autobiography (2002), I’m struck by just how good the book is. It is sometimes forgotten just how good a writer the ev