RK Watch: The Legend Returns …
Sun: ALEX FERGUSON says Roy Keane can expect a huge reception when he returns to Old Trafford for the first time as a manager.
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The Succession: CQ’s Bid To Take Over From Fergie …
Does Carlos Queiroz’s admission that he wants the Old Trafford manager’s job represent quiet pressure on the Glazers to anoint him Fergie’s successor?
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The Succession …
Times: Sir Alex Ferguson is showing no signs of growing weary of being Manchester United manager, prompting bookmakers to start betting on how much longer he will stay at the helm.
Mail: RK Watch …
He is the true Special One, no doubt about it. When the story of the Premiership’s first epoch is written, Sir Alex Ferguson’s name will tower above the rest, regardless of noisy boasts and self-congratulatory chestpounding from relative newcomers.
Times: RK Watch …
England’s victorious Ashes cricketers were not the only ones to come to regret taking to the streets in an open-top bus in 2005. Sunderland’s foot-ballers did so, too, and Roy Keane has put a halt to plans to mark their promotion to the Barclays Premiership this season in similar four-wheeled fashion.
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Times: RK Watch …
There were no empty crates of champagne at Sunderland’s training ground yesterday, no waft of Guinness or smouldering cigars. Roy Keane celebrated promotion by sipping green tea, walking his dog and thinking, plotting, planning. Triggs may have accepted a pat on the back, but his owner did not. If delight flared, it is already replaced by renewed determination.
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Guardian: RK Watch …
Confident, assertive but without a trace of cockiness, Roy Keane rarely speaks without certainty. So it was yesterday that, 24 hours after Sunderland’s promotion to the Premiership, the Irishman said: “We’re not going up there with the mind-set that finishing fourth-bottom would be a good season. I hear that from many managers but, let me tell you, you won’t be hearing it from me, far from it.” No one argued.
