No, you’re the car crash, Roy

DECEIVED Mane tricks Walker, who gives away a penalty

EVEN the theatrical eye-rolling is becoming a little tiresome.

Every shock jock has a shelf life and Sky Sports need to decide when Roy Keane’s sledging has had its time. It will not be for a while, we know that. The name-calling gets social-media hits and that has the clickcounters salivating into their lattes.

And yes, it makeskes headlines for us.

And clicks for us. Great.

When an ex-footballer of

Keane’s stature and brilliance callsl a current professional an ‘idiot’ and a ‘car crash’, of course it is widely reported. That is our job.

But for Sky Sports, this is dumbing-down. Keane was asked for a half-time analysis of how Sadio Mane won the penalty that ended up earning Liverpool an excellent point. An analysis. It is what pundits should provide.

Maybe he could have pointed out that Mane had initially shaped as though he was going to play a return pass but instead turned sharply, deceiving Kyle Walker as he has deceived many. That is why Lionel Messi voted for Mane in a World Player of the Year ballot. Instead, we got a spot of personal abuse.

Keane (above) would have been well within his rights to highlight Walker’s infringement against Jamie Vardy earlier this season, which gave Leicester City a penalty to cancel out a Riyad Mahrez opener and inspire a 5-2 win for Brendan

Rodgers’ team. Or he could have mentioned the rashness which got Walker sent off for England in September. Instead, it felt like something personal.

Walker might be rash but he is trusted by Pep Guardiola Guard and, the last las time we all looked, l Guardiola is a decent manager.

Walker has started st every matcht for City this season and is first choice for Gareth Southgate again.

Three times, Walker has been voted into the PFA Team of the Year by his fellow professionals.

He has two Premier League winners’ medals, an FA Cup winners’ medal and three League Cup winners’ medals.

He might be liable to collect the odd card but he is no idiot, no car crash of a footballer, as a more informative Jamie Carragher told us after the match.

Perhaps Keane gets paid by the ping.

And, judging by the all-important socialmedia reaction, he clearly has a legion of admirers. But when the rant becomes predictable, you know the act is wearing thin.