If you're thinking about not bothering with Keane's book because you know the controversial quotes..

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Love the bloke people bang on about the fat man but Keano did all the hard work took us from bottom of the championship to champions while the fat fuck wasted millions on shite like Rowan Vine at Brum
Keano wanted Rowan Vine at SAFC. We were certainly linked.
 
Hero, come back anytime, raised the profile of the club in a second.
 
http://www.bookdepository.com/Triggs-Triggs/9781409144991

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Meet Triggs - TV lover, hypochondriac, noted wit, football genius and best friend to the most talked-about footballer of his generation. Whether leading Manchester United to the Treble or telling Mick McCarthy to shove the World Cup up his bollocks, Roy was seldom out of the news. For more than ten years, through good times and bad, he could always rely on his friendship with his ever faithful Labrador retriever, Triggs. Their walks became the stuff of rolling news legend. But what did they talk about on all those famous days when they took the air while being chased by a media pack? And - at the end of the day - who was really walking who? Now, in his own words, Roy Keane's dog tells the extraordinary story of their friendship and reveals his part in the glories and controversies that marked his master's career. From his arrival through a small ad in the South Manchester Advertiser through to Keane's final days as manager of Ipswich Town, the brilliant but neurotic Triggs was never far from his side, directing events as best he could. He was just a pup when he discovered, while watching television one day in 1998, that he could read a football march 'like a virtuoso can read a five-line staff'. But the brilliant but illness-obsessed dog always preferred to avoid the headlines and leave the adulation to his master. Until now. Ten major trophies. A missed Champions League final. Player of the Year awards. Alf-Inge Haaland. Drunken nights. Contract negotiations. Patrick Vieira. Prawn sandwiches. The explosive end to his relationships with Ireland and Manchester United. Triggs was witness to it all - and a far from silent one. Funny, frank and never less than one hundred and ten per cent mean-spirited, Triggs tells the truth about what it was like to be a central player in the extraordinary drama of his master's life.

What the fuck? :lol:

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We'll have made more than that by staying in the Premier League since.

We were the ultimate yo yo club at the time. They were likely the best of what he could get to come.
They weren't. They were the best of what Keane knew about and would allow himself to look at. He ran before he could walk once he reached the prem. All the nonsense about "you must get the best goalkeeper you can get regardless of cost" and "big clubs don't loan players" just hamstrung us. In part we were a victim of his success. Had we got up in 24 rather than 12 months we would have had more time to get Keane up to speed on the worldwide market. The counter to that, though, is that it would have timed perfectly with Drumaville going bust.

All that being said, the sentimentalist in me would like to see him get another crack if it doesn't work out with Gus. He'd come into a club with a structure that would give him the support that he needed at the start. He'd also need an old head alongside him to keep him in check, mind. Of course it wouldn't happen - and even if it did it would be more likely to end up in disaster due to the negatives of his character - but put him in the right situation and he could be outstanding.
 
"It still saddens me. I still think I should be manager of Sunderland. I really liked the club, and I liked the people."

Would anyone have him back if things didn't work for Poyet? Personally I would without any hesitation.
I would. If Poyet can't keep us up after all those failures before him, why not get Keane back to fight for promotion?! But with a proper scouting team this time.
 
Would people be creaming over him as much if he had been an average Championship player, instead of the world famous Roy Keane?

The good job he did for us has since been elevated to Biblical proportions by some. Yes, we were bottom of the league, but only 4 games had been played (people love to credit the West Brom game to Keane so I'm doing the same), we had Niall Quinn in charge (I love the bloke, but he's no manager) and, on paper, one of the stronger teams in the Championship - even before the £10m Keane got to spend, a substantial amount for a Championship manager at that time (not to mention the Premiership level wages the Drumaville consortium agreed to pay to those players he brought in).

He did well to establish us the following season but, this is hardly a unique achievement. Following the Rico derby, 3 points from 18 in October/November 2009 (culminating in the humiliating and gutless 1-4 home defeat by Bolton, one of the most disinterested performances I have seen by a Sunderland team at SOL) spelled out just how badly things had got and, imo, how out of his depth Keane was. He had to go and he knew it.

5 years later and people are still talking about a failed Champuionship manager - the Aston Villa assistant manager - as if he is Brian Clough or Alex Ferguson. It's a clear case of people loving him because he is 'Box Office', rather than for anything he actually achieved in the dug-out.

Ironically enough, one of Keane's gripes about our club was our lack of winning mentality, almost stretching to an inferiority complex. For so many of our fans to be so fawning towards him because of who he is and what he achieved at another club, one of the 'big boys' he was so keen for us to stand up and be counted against, well, I find it all a bit embarrassing to be honest.
 
Would people be creaming over him as much if he had been an average Championship player, instead of the world famous Roy Keane?

The good job he did for us has since been elevated to Biblical proportions by some. Yes, we were bottom of the league, but only 4 games had been played (people love to credit the West Brom game to Keane so I'm doing the same), we had Niall Quinn in charge (I love the bloke, but he's no manager) and, on paper, one of the stronger teams in the Championship - even before the £10m Keane got to spend, a substantial amount for a Championship manager at that time (not to mention the Premiership level wages the Drumaville consortium agreed to pay to those players he brought in).

He did well to establish us the following season but, this is hardly a unique achievement. Following the Rico derby, 3 points from 18 in October/November 2009 (culminating in the humiliating and gutless 1-4 home defeat by Bolton, one of the most disinterested performances I have seen by a Sunderland team at SOL) spelled out just how badly things had got and, imo, how out of his depth Keane was. He had to go and he knew it.

5 years later and people are still talking about a failed Champuionship manager - the Aston Villa assistant manager - as if he is Brian Clough or Alex Ferguson. It's a clear case of people loving him because he is 'Box Office', rather than for anything he actually achieved in the dug-out.

Ironically enough, one of Keane's gripes about our club was our lack of winning mentality, almost stretching to an inferiority complex. For so many of our fans to be so fawning towards him because of who he is and what he achieved at another club, one of the 'big boys' he was so keen for us to stand up and be counted against, well, I find it all a bit embarrassing to be honest.
Probably not but he is Roy Keane. So what does it matter.
He didn't spend £10m in the championship and our squad when he came in was really poor. Not to mention totally demoralised following an awful season and terrible start.
 
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