Mick Hume in The Times:
Roy Keane, the combative captain of Manchester United, has often been condemned for failing, as one manager put it, to "serve as a role model for children". To which my response has always been, why should he?
Sportsmen such as Keane are our football heroes for 90 minutes, not our role models for real life. As a United fan I want him to teach the opposition a footballing lesson, not instruct my children in etiquette.
But after watching Keane's magnificent chest-puffing, finger-jabbing, expletive-spitting performan ce in the tunnel at Highbury on Tuesday night, I think he might be a role model after all. Warning Patrick Viera, Arsenal's 6ft 4in captain, not to intimidate his team-mates, and telling the French colossus: "I'll see you outside", Keane demonstrated many of the qualities sorely missing from our public life: leadership, loyalty, plain-speaking and fighting spirit. Forget Kilroy; if you want veritas, vote Keano.