Roy Keane ist ein gefeierter irischer Fußballer, der für seinen dominanten und wettbewerbsorientierten Spielstil bekannt ist. Seine Karriere ist geprägt von Führungsqualitäten, insbesondere als Kapitän von Manchester United, wo er zu einer ikonischen Figur wurde. Keane ist bekannt für seine kompromisslose Herangehensweise auf und neben dem Spielfeld, die seinen Erfolg sowohl auf Vereinsebene als auch international prägte. Nach seiner aktiven Karriere wechselte er ins Management und bewies seine Fähigkeit, Teams zu transformieren und zum Erfolg zu führen.
A publishing phenomenon in hardback, Roy Keane's autobiography was the biggest selling sports book of the year. The book will include a new chapter covering events that followed the books publication- Keane's vindication by the FAI report; the punishment meted out by the FAI and Mick McCarthy's resignation. Brilliantly reviewed, Roy Keane's riveting, brutally honest autobiography has the potential to be one of the year's biggest paperback bestsellers.
No. 1 bestselling memoir of Roy Keane, former captain of Manchester United and Ireland - co-written with Man Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle. Now updated with a new chapter, including Roy leaving Aston Villa and the Republic of Ireland's qualification for Euro 2016. In a stunning collaboration with Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle, Roy Keane gives a brutally honest account of his last days as a player, the highs and lows of his managerial career, and his life as an outspoken ITV pundit. 'Roy Keane's book is a masterpiece . . . It may well be the finest, most incisive deconstruction of football management that the game has ever produced' Mail on Sunday 'A genuine pleasure . . . His thoughts on his players are humane, interesting, candid and never less than believable' The Times 'The best things are the small things: regretting joining Ipswich when he discovered the training kit was blue; refusing to sign Robbie Savage because his answerphone message was rubbish; being appalled that his side had listened to an Abba song before playing football' Evening Standard 'The book is brilliantly constructed, rattling along at breakneck speed . . . full of self-deprecation . . . a ruthless self-examination' Daily Telegraph