Roy keane

Manchester United have looked increasingly fallible without the presence of their midfield hit-man Roy Keane. Yet given his ever-rising personal combustibility and unease, won't his return from injury and possible disciplinary hurdles only undermine United's rejuvenation bid? The Manchester fire brigade has been busy dealing with its usual share of accidents and barbecue blunders this season, but none has matched the white-hot intensity generated by the city's adopted son Roy Keane. The troubled Irishman is …

…crisis and everyone knows it. Stability is a key and right now they don't have it. All of a sudden, Ferguson's U-turn on retirement may prove to be worst decision he has made in a career characterised by blinding bolts of wisdom and perception. Roy Keane may be a liability in his current mental and physical state, but with or without him dare one suggest United appear to be in the autumn of glorious reign?