Adele, the Bravery, 50 Cent and Keane were all past recipients.
There have been powerful hints that Mowbray was not the prime mover behind the Keane move, but that the directors, under the powerful influence of Dermot Desmond, persuaded themselves it would be worth meeting his earnings of around £65,000 a week.
San Jose basically mustered up a reserve squad due to Chris Wondolowski, Clarence Goodson, Nana Attakora, Marvin Chavez all being at the Gold Cup; add in Lenhart recovering from those head lacerations, Bernardez and Salinas sitting out due to suspensions (the latter was sat due to the MLS disciplinary committee's decision about an elbow to Keane).
Delaney laughed, at first, when it was put to him that Roy Keane might be considered – the pair have history and do not get on – but he did namecheck him when he trotted through the possible candidates.
"He came in the next day and there was plenty of banter," remembers Keane.
As Keane points out, Cantona was not a rambunctious leader: "Cantona led by his presence more than anything else – his charisma.
The players have just been given £800 each for their various in-house media appearances but, to make the cheques worth cashing, they decide to pool the money together and raffle it off to one lucky winner: "Each of us would get about £800 out of it at the end of the season for the work we'd done," recalls Keane.
It will be hard to persuade them to put their faith instead in Iraqi government forces, let alone American ones.Jack Keane, the retired American general who helped persuade President Bush to try the surge, says it must be sustained for 18 months to two years to change the minds of ordinary Iraqis and allow the government to find a more solid political settlement.
A sad spinster, her broad backside clad in a "good wool skirt", she plays aunt to the Keane children which, although making her feel useful, never quite alleviates the "ache of hollow longing" or her awareness of "her own arms being empty".
Yet Mr Keane, a professor of politics at Westminster University in London, has not really decided which interests him more.
ReprintsOverwhelmingly, the theatre of war struck Keane as being like a film set.
