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IAN LADYMAN: All Wayne Rooney has to do now is deliver at Birmingham City - but that's the really hard part... if he can't move the club forward, his managerial career may be over before he even hits 40

Roy Keane has not been a manager for twelve years but remembers the perils, difficulties and in particular the challenges of coaching on the back of a stellar playing career.

'At Sunderland Niall Quinn [the chairman] was saying I would be box office,' Keane told the 'Stick to Football' podcast.

'He meant well but the truth was that I was a young manager just trying to learn my trade like everybody else.

'You get lucky to get a job in the first place but as soon as you have a difficult spell they throw it at you.