{"id":124980,"date":"2025-11-06T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/124980\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:52:09","slug":"theres-no-going-back-now-roy-keane-admits-he-always-knew-hed-be-a-loser-in-saipan-row-with-mick-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/124980\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s no going back now\u2019 \u2013 Roy Keane admits he always knew he\u2019d be a loser in Saipan row with Mick McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roy Keane appeared on the Stick To Football podcast\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/07452a12-ea7e-4f43-9f96-fb03d5b7e960.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Roy Keane appeared on the Stick To Football podcast<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Roy Keane had revealed he always knew he could not win the battle with Ireland manager Mick McCarthy that ended his hopes of playing in the 2002 World Cup finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">More than two decades after the explosive confrontation in Saipan that ended with Keane leaving Ireland\u2019s World Cup squad, the former national team captain has admitted he simply couldn\u2019t hold back in a row that had been building for a long time before the final showdown in front of his team-mates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Keane appeared on the Stick To Football podcast Roy Keane had revealed he always knew he could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,14061,271,112],"class_list":["post-124980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kevin-palmer","tag-roy-keane","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}