Roy Keane has restated his desire to move into management - and hopes to use his now-empty international calendar to complete a Football Association coaching course.
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Roy Keane: Planning future
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The Manchester United midfielder - who may face an FA disrepute charge after
admitting his horror tackle on Alf Inge Haaland was intended to injure the
Norwegian - claimed he was keen to try his hand at coaching once he retires from
football.
And Keane admits his decision to quit international football following his
fall-out with Republic of Ireland boss Mick McCarthy before the World Cup will
leave him with time on his hands to do a coaching course.
Keane said in his soon-to-be-released autobiography, being serialised in a Sunday newspaper: 'I've spoken to the manager already about getting my
[coaching] badges.
'I'm nearly 31, I've got another four years left in me, and then management is
something I'll seriously consider.
'There are people I have learned from in my career and others I would rather
ignore. But without international football I'm going to have a few weekends free
during the season and I'd like to put them to good use.
'Every football match consists of a thousand little things which, added
together, make the final score.
'The manager who can't spot the details in a forensic manner is bluffing. The
game is full of bluffers banging on about rolling your sleeves up, having the
right attitude and taking some pride in the shirt you are wearing.
'A manager who trades in these cliched generalisations - and there are many
of them - is missing the point.'
Meanwhile, a leading MP has called for a police investigation into Keane's horror tackle on Haaland.
According to reports, Colchester MP Bob Russell, the
Liberal Democrats' spokesman on sport, has written to Greater Manchester Police
to report the April 2001 incident as a crime.
The reports quote Russell as saying Keane's 'violent tackle was premeditated
and was, therefore, a deliberate assault'.
The letter goes on to state: 'Acts of assault, whether in the workplace or at
entrances to nightclubs, should not be viewed differently simply because one
occurred during a football match while another was at a drinking venue.
'When is football going to realise that it cannot be above the law of the
land that relates to everyone else?
'I am inviting the chief constable to regard the written admission of assault
by Roy Keane as seriously as any other assault at any other location and to view
my letter as a formal report of a crime.'
Keane could also be the subject of an FA charge once his book is published
this week.
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