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Friday morning's photographs of Roy Keane and his clearly distressed wife, Theresa, taken in the wake of his departure from Sunderland, suggest that there is much more to the story of the resignation than we have so far heard. Managers leave their jobs all the time and Keane is wealthy enough to cope with unemployment for the rest of his life. The tears were about something much deeper.
It might be better, then, if our more yobbish commentators and radio texters were to count to 10 before jumping in with ill-informed comment on how Keane can't handle pressure and always walks away from a challenge. As a human being who may not be very well at the moment, he deserves more consideration than that.
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Exactly my thoughts Diarmuid. I found that photograph of Roy Keane’s wife very sad indeed and a little disturbing. The only person who knows why Roy Keane left Sunderland, or what is going on in his head, or in his life, is Roy Keane. Once any person in the public eye experiences some upheaval in their lives it becomes open season for idle speculation and pages of bitter comment. Madonna’s marriage breakdown was another classic example of this. Only two people know what really went on and neither of them work for The Sun or Heat magazine.