A volcanic eruption and Roy Keane is sent home: Saipan, 20 years on - part two

This is part two of a three part series. If you haven't listened to part one yet, we recommend you go back and do so - it's the previous episode in the feed.


Warning: contains explicit language 


Former football writer for The Irish Times Emmet Malone, who travelled to Saipan with the Ireland team back in 2002, joins the podcast to tell the story of how things went so badly wrong between captain Roy Keane and manager Mick McCarthy.






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