Mick McCarthy has made his ill-feeling towards Roy Keane - and the new Steve Coogan film depicting their 2002 World Cup fall-out - very clear in an x-rated speech at an event this week. The facilities were so poor that the team arrived without footballs and Keane did not hold back on McCarthy's handling of it. Daily Mail football editor Ian Ladyman wrote that Hardwicke 'gets Keane so perfectly it's vaguely chilling'. And he still holds plenty of anger for Keane too - dubbing him a 'c***' at an event hosted by The Sun in Ireland. Steve Coogan and Eanna Hardwicke starred as Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane in SaipanMcCarthy and Keane did not see eye-to-eye with Ireland - and are still enemies now'What's it been, 24 years?

Source: Daily Mail March 22, 2026 14:42 UTC