Originally Posted by
MacAdder
He has a bit of a boring monotonic voice which probably doesn't help the perception of him being dour but I too like the guy.
He has always seemed very sincere.
Without knowing all the facts and looking from the outside with the media reports, the incident with Roy Keane.
At the time I felt really quite sorry for him.
That said, to let one of your best players walk out on you in such circumstances seemed a huge error of judgement and no matter who did what, or who said what to whom, I'm sure it was a man management experience he'll have learnt from.