Roy Keane has been under siege after a slow start this season at Ipswich, but as
Matt Dickinson of the Times Online reports, a distanced manager has apparently separated himself from his locker room.
One of the most troubling stories about Roy Keane’s management did not involve him screaming, shouting or karate-kicking the tactics board in the dressing room, as Dwight Yorke has described so vividly in his forthcoming autobiography.
No, it was the tale of a Sunderland party when all the players and families were invited to bond together on a bright summer’s day. A day when Keane, the man who should have been doing the mixing and making people feel good about their work, is said to have turned up, collected his food and walked across a pitch to eat on his own. Lunch digested, he walked back, dropped off his plate and disappeared, not speaking to anybody between arriving and leaving.
This was a man who could bring intensity and isolation even to a pleasant barbecue party.
The notion of Keane as a brooding loner is not new but it is particularly pressing at a time when his Ipswich Town team sit one place off the bottom of the Coca-Cola Championship with no victories in nine matches.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/matt_dickinson/article6853140.ece?&EMC-Bltn=GHOFHB
Matt Dickinson of the Times Online reports, a distanced manager has apparently separated himself from his locker room.
One of the most troubling stories about Roy Keane’s management did not involve him screaming, shouting or karate-kicking the tactics board in the dressing room, as Dwight Yorke has described so vividly in his forthcoming autobiography.
No, it was the tale of a Sunderland party when all the players and families were invited to bond together on a bright summer’s day. A day when Keane, the man who should have been doing the mixing and making people feel good about their work, is said to have turned up, collected his food and walked across a pitch to eat on his own. Lunch digested, he walked back, dropped off his plate and disappeared, not speaking to anybody between arriving and leaving.
This was a man who could bring intensity and isolation even to a pleasant barbecue party.
The notion of Keane as a brooding loner is not new but it is particularly pressing at a time when his Ipswich Town team sit one place off the bottom of the Coca-Cola Championship with no victories in nine matches.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/matt_dickinson/article6853140.ece?&EMC-Bltn=GHOFHB
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