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‘Roy Keane was the one player every country at the World Cup would have picked from our squad, so I do wonder what we could have achieved had he stayed in 2002’ Matt Holland opens up on Ireland’s Saipan bust-up

The former Manchester United skipper famously stormed out of Ireland’s 2002 World Cup camp

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'Roy Keane leaving Saipan in 2002 galvanised us but Mick McCarthy wasn't right to question him in front of the squad' Ex-Republic of Ireland international Clinton Morrison gives first-hand account of famous 2002 World Cup fallout

With the World Cup now underway, Clinton Morrison gives his take on that iconic bust-up between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy

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7 best soccer movies and TV shows you need to stream before the World Cup 2026

World Cup 2026 is on the horizon, and if you can't wait, here are 7 essential soccer movies and TV shows to hold you over until kick-off.

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Mick McCarthy launches sweary rant about his 'Saipan' depiction claiming he walked out after 20 minutes

The former Republic of Ireland boss is unhappy about how he has been portrayed by actor Steve Coogan while also taking aim at Roy Keane

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‘I learned how to play under pressure at Blackpool and used those experiences with Villa’ Morgan Rogers on his formative loan spell and a viral quote

Rogers was at Blackpool when Mick McCarthy was asked ‘it can’t go on like this, can it?’

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Saipan: Roy Keane World Cup drama is a highly entertaining slice of Irish football history

In the summer of 2002, a dispute inside the Republic of Ireland’s football camp spiralled into a national controversy. Few sporting rows have lodged themselves in the Irish imagination as stubbornly as Keane v McCarthy in Saipan, culminating in Keane’s departure from the Irish World Cup squad.

The Conversation

What Keane and McCarthy’s absurd row in Saipan tells us about Irish identity and principles

WORLD CUP 2002: The new film dramatises a seminal moment in Irish footballing history, and Miguel Delaney details the lessons learned and how an undiscovered twist adds a new layer to one of the biggest controversies in Irish sporting history

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Steve Coogan: You need laser-focused people to achieve great things

Steve Coogan has revealed what he considers to be keys to success.

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Steve Coogan: I don't want to be part of the British establishment

Steve Coogan's view of the world has been shaped by his Irish heritage.

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From Saipan to Take That: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Steve Coogan stars in a loose retelling of an infamous football falling-out, while a new Netflix doc gets nostalgic about the heyday of Gary Barlow and co

The Guardian - UK

Saipan: the story behind Roy Keane’s World Cup walkout on Ireland’s football team

Don’t make the mistake of thinking Saipan is a film about the brutal second world war battle on this small Pacific island. It is, in fact, the tale of a ridiculous and heartbreaking football bust-up that almost tore a country apart.

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Éanna Hardwicke: ‘A lot of TV fetishises people who do appalling things’

RISING STARS: The Irish rising star tells Tom Murray about playing one of football’s hardest men, Roy Keane, in ‘Saipan’, the perils of acting opposite one of his heroes, Steve Coogan, and the state of true crime TV

The Independent UK

‘The emotion you get from the game is insane’: the Roy Keane bust-up film leading a new type of football movie

Saipan, about Keane’s infamous World Cup row with manager Mick McCarthy, has become a hit film in its native Ireland – as it opens in the UK screenwriter Paul Fraser explains how he aimed to avoid the mistakes of the past

The Guardian - UK

Saipan review – Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy’s epic spat becomes amusing state-of-the-nation psychodrama

Éanna Hardwick and Steve Coogan star as furious Keane and his luckless manager McCarthy in this retelling of the Man Utd star’s infamous 2002 walkout

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The Independent UK

Steve Coogan brands Reform UK as ‘anti-human rights’

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Steve Coogan says Reform UK threaten human rights in stark political message

The Alan Partridge actor says Nigel Farage’s party are ‘anti-human rights because they think it’s some red tape bureaucracy’

Evening Standard

Alan Partridge star Steve Coogan says Reform UK is ‘anti-human rights’

The 60-year-old is starring as Mick McCarthy in the film Saipan.

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Beyond Keane’s stick-it-up-your-bollocks, there isn’t much else to Saipan

Why is the film of Ireland’s 2002 World Cup falling-out not a documentary but a drama that takes liberties with events?

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Doomed lovers, high heels and The Odyssey: films to get excited about in 2026

Margot Robbie busts her corset in Wuthering Heights, the Devil Wears Prada sequel goes fashionably to war, and Christopher Nolan brings us a Greek epic. Plus much more in our pick of the best films coming to UK cinemas this year

The Guardian - UK

‘We are no longer apologising’: Éanna Hardwicke on Ireland’s cultural confidence and what it’s like to play Roy Keane

Currently on stage in a play that provoked riots, the rising Irish actor is also stepping into Keane’s boots to replay a notorious footballing feud. But, he says, his country feels more empowered than ever before

Sports Illustrated

The Biggest Bust-Ups Between Players and Managers

Physical and verbal confrontations are all too common between players and their managers.

Sports Illustrated

Mohamed Salah, Arne Slot Debacle Is Ugly—Liverpool Must Now Do What’s Necessary

The Egyptian’s outburst has sparked a civil war at Anfield. With the Premier League champions in crisis, they must back the right horse to move forward.

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An Ireland apart: How Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy's Saipan fallout went box office

Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy produced one of football’s most dramatic stories when they ripped into each other in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in 2002 – now the saga is being retold in a new movie that hits the cinemas in January

Evening Standard

Saipan filmmaker told he was going to ‘open old wounds’

The producer of the movie Saipan was told he was ‘mad’ to work on a film about the Irish team at the 2002 World Cup.

The Guardian - UK

It can get worse: Blackpool’s latest defeat recalls Mick McCarthy meme

Blackpool had high hopes in August under Steve Bruce but, now managerless, are second bottom of League One after losing at Stockport

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