Don’t we all.
And the exerpts just keep on coming.
We’ll have the entire book read in bits and pieces by Thursday, thank you Tesco in Burnage, as Roy Keane’s latest autobiography gets prised apart and pored over by the greedy media hordes.
Yep, that’s us.
Roy has been talking about his tendency to push the self-destruct button in both his personal and professional life and says that his mid-life crisis has been going on for years.
“The self-destruct button is definitely there,” he writes,
“And I suffer for it. With my drinking, I used to go missing for a few days. I think it was my way of switching off, never mind the consequences. It was my time. It was self-destructive, I can see that, but I’m still drawn to it. Not the drink – but the madness, the irresponsibility. I can be sitting at home, the most contented man on the planet. An hour later I go: ‘Jesus – it’s hard work, this.’
“Maybe ‘self-destruct’ is too strong a phrase. Maybe I play games with myself. I have great stability in my life. But then, that worries me.
“I like home comforts, but then I want to be this hell-raiser – but I want my porridge in the morning. I want my wife and kids around me. I’ve dipped into this madness, and I don’t like it that much. Maybe I’m like every man on the planet – I don’t know; I want a bit more than what’s on offer.
“My midlife crisis has been going for years. Someone once said to me – an ex-player and it’s going back to my drinking days – that going out with me was like going out with a time-bomb.”
Keane insists that he is not the ‘impatient thug’ that some people paint him as, but knows that his reputation precedes him when he walks into a room. The reality, he says, is quite different.
“I don’t get as angry as people might think. But it might help me. As soon as I walk into a room, I know people are apprehensive; I know they are. They are expecting some kind of skinhead thug.
“So I’ve a good way of disappointing them. I think I treat people pretty well. I’ve got friends I’ve known for 30 years. If I was some impatient thug, I think they’d keep their distance from me.”
