BE KEANE TO CHANGE IT UP, ROY

EVERYONE I know who knows Roy Keane talks about the soft and fun side of him, and I hope that if he gets the Sunderland job, that’s what his players see instead of the cartoon character we get on Sky Sports.

A lot of managers go on Sky to get jobs but, ironically, in terms of his management career, it has worked against Keane (below).

What I want now is for him to be able to tally the ultra-respected football man with someone who realises that the ways of yesteryear – throwing individuals under the bus, the ‘show us your character’ methods and doing things like running players down after defeats – are dead, they’re finished.

Players just won’t respond to them. I want Keane to succeed as a manager because he has every attribute to be able to go in and work his socks off for a club.

But if he does not address the cartoon character side he will be done, finished.

All we will see is a bitter man at 60 on TV who’s thinking, ‘I could have done what Frank

Lampard or Steven Gerrard have done if I had done things differently’.

I

KNOW

Nottingham Forest are playing the FA Cup holders

Leicester City in what I’ve unofficially dubbed the Stan Collymore derby but I fancy them to

claim another Premier League scalp. Traditionally, they haven’t been great of

late in the cup but I have them down to prevail in a close-fought and exiting 2-1. I don’t mind which of my old teams win this

one, but it’d be nice if it were Forest because, as they try to get back to the top flight, it’d be great for them to have a good run in the FA Cup to start reminding people what

a big club they are.