Saipan

On the eve of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Irish captain Roy Keane forfeits his place in the squad at the team's preparation base in Saipan, following a heated disagreement with manager Mick McCarthy.

Cast

Éanna Hardwicke

as Roy Keane

Steve Coogan

as Mick McCarthy

Alice Lowe

as Fiona McCarthy

Peter McDonald

as Mick Byrne

Harriet Cains

as Theresa Keane

Jamie Beamish

as Dickie Moloney

Alex Murphy

as Eddy Power

Oliver Coopersmith

as Jason McAteer

Jack Hickey

as Niall Quinn

Aoife Hinds

as Karen

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Talk about open goal? I remember the controversy back in 2002 as the Irish team struggled to prepare for their World Cup campaign. You’d also have had to have been living under a large rock not to have known that Roy Keane was an independently minded individual whom even Alex Ferguson had difficulty...

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