Book description
Meet Triggs - TV lover, hypochondriac, noted wit, football genius and
best friend to the most talked-about footballer of his generation.
Whether leading Manchester United to the Treble or telling Mick McCarthy
to shove the World Cup up his bollocks, Roy was seldom out of the news.
For more than ten years, through good times and bad, he could always
rely on his friendship with his ever faithful Labrador retriever,
Triggs. Their walks became the stuff of rolling news legend. But what
did they talk about on all those famous days when they took the air
while being chased by a media pack? And - at the end of the day - who
was really walking who?
Now, in his own words, Roy Keane's dog tells the extraordinary story of
their friendship and reveals his part in the glories and controversies
that marked his master's career. From his arrival through a small ad in
the South Manchester Advertiser through to Keane's final days as manager
of Ipswich Town, the brilliant but neurotic Triggs was never far from
his side, directing events as best he could.
He was just a pup when he discovered, while watching television one day
in 1998, that he could read a football march 'like a virtuoso can read a
five-line staff'. But the brilliant but illness-obsessed dog always
preferred to avoid the headlines and leave the adulation to his master.
Until now. Ten major trophies. A missed Champions League final. Player
of the Year awards. Alf-Inge Haaland. Drunken nights. Contract
negotiations. Patrick Vieira. Prawn sandwiches. The explosive end to his
relationships with Ireland and Manchester United. Triggs was witness to
it all - and a far from silent one. Funny, frank and never less than one
hundred and ten per cent mean-spirited, Triggs tells the truth about
what it was like to be a central player in the extraordinary drama of
his master's life. Triggs' ghostwriter, Paul Howard, is one of the
most successful comedy writers in Ireland, creator of the bestselling
Ross O'Carroll Kelly books.
