IT JUST AIN'T ACCURATE

Last updated : 18 August 2002 By Newshound
Ray Treacy who makes the team's travel arrangements and is a former
international, capped 46 times by the Republic claims
'Roy is telling half-truths, not the full truth,'

Before the Holland game Keane states in his book that the Irish players were
not given the correct food, however Treacy says:

'The team stayed in the five-star Hilton Hotel. They had a buffet breakfast and
a buffet lunch on the Friday and they went to bed for the afternoon ahead of
the training session Roy refers to.
'
When they came down at 5pm, there were sandwiches and snacks laid on,
purely in case anyone was peckish before they went to the ground. The team
returned at 7.30 to a full dinner, with pasta, fish, chicken and meat. It's
nonsense to suggest players were asked to eat cheese sandwiches alone on
the night before the Holland game.'

'I was in the room when Roy came in before we went training. He said:

"Where's the pasta?" And Ian Evans, Mick's assistant, said "We ate it all".
'Roy said: "What did you say?" And Ian repeated: "We ate it all". Then Roy
kicked the table and stormed out. He went training and Mick approached him
about it. Roy said he was making a point but when we got back to the hotel he
ordered a pizza in his room and refused to eat with the others. They were
stunned.'