Booker-winning author to help legendary midfielder with 're-evaluation of the meaning of success'
Writing team ... Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle, who are collaborating on the midfielder's next memoir. Composite: Reuters/Martin Godwin
The Booker prize-winning novelist Roddy Doyle is to team up with Roy Keane to write a motivational memoir which, according to its publisher, "re-evaluates the meaning of success". The midfield enforcer, once of Manchester United and the Republic of Ireland, has lost none of his bite since retiring as a player, spending time as a similarly formidable manager and TV pundit.
A memoir entitled The Second Half will leave Keane's former manager Alex Ferguson looking over his shoulder for a crunching literary tackle after a feud dating back to 2005 moves to the bookshelves.
Ferguson labelled Keane "a man of extremes" in an autobiography which went on to become the bestselling book of 2013. Keane hit back immediately, suggesting Ferguson did not know the meaning of loyalty, but a book which promises to explore "challenges beyond the pitch" and the "psychological struggles" involved in coming to terms with life as an ex-Manchester United player can hardly avoid Keane's troubled relationship with his former manager.
According to Alan Sansom, who acquired the book for Orion, it will become "a benchmark for sports autobiography".
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A memoir entitled The Second Half will leave Keane's former manager Alex Ferguson looking over his shoulder for a crunching literary tackle after a feud dating back to 2005 moves to the bookshelves.
Ferguson labelled Keane "a man of extremes" in an autobiography which went on to become the bestselling book of 2013. Keane hit back immediately, suggesting Ferguson did not know the meaning of loyalty, but a book which promises to explore "challenges beyond the pitch" and the "psychological struggles" involved in coming to terms with life as an ex-Manchester United player can hardly avoid Keane's troubled relationship with his former manager.
According to Alan Sansom, who acquired the book for Orion, it will become "a benchmark for sports autobiography".
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