Keane has walked away from Murdoch’s football wasteland

Enigmatic as ever, when the time came, he slipped away quietly with no explanation. Perhaps he felt that one wasn’t required or,more likely I suspect, he knew the more he might try to explain, the deeper the hole would become.

All his life, Roy Keane has been conducting this dialogue with himself - now and then we have managed to pick up some small part of it - but mostly it has been ...