Keane has become a 'rent-a-quote' now he's a manager, blasts former ally Dunphy

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Eamon Dunphy, once a Millwall player but now an outspoken football pundit on Irish television, has previously been a staunch advocate of Keane the player.

Yet Dunphy is clearly far less enamoured with Keane the Sunderland manager. "I know Roy well and the one thing he hated when I knew him and when we were working on that book was the bull-s*** that was a part of manager-speak and part of player-speak," he said.

"But now he holds these lengthy press conferences every week in which he anoints David O'Leary to be the next Ireland manager, anoints Terry Venables to be the next Ireland manager.

"He talks about how wonderful it is for the Premier League to play games abroad and he's just become rent-a-quote. It's quite extraordinary," Dunphy told the Pat Kenny show on Ireland's RTE channel.

"This is a sharp, smart, outstanding human being and he's just been sucked into that awful Premier League vacuousness. It's sad to see Roy Keane bullsh***ing. But there you go. It happens."