In all the euphoria,with the players pulling on “Bring on France 2016” T-shirts and the noise as wonderful as at any other time since the Republic of Ireland left Lansdowne Road, there was one moment when Martin ONeill could be seen doing his best to drag Roy Keane to the centre-circle to take some of the crowds acclaim.
Keane resisted but ONeill tried again. They grappled, and embraced,laughed. Manager had assistant almost in a headlock by the time Keane wriggled free again. It was that kind of night and this was the soft-focus Keane: no beard, no scowl, and just a dawn of a smile. “As long as we’re not in Saipan,we’ll be all right,” he said later, and when asked approximately how the team would prepare for next summer’s tournament.
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Source: theguardian.com