Alastair Campbell is back in the news: he is publishing a volume of his diaries, entitled Blair to Brown, Diaries Volume 6.
Plenty of the book is devoted to sport, including myriad mentions of the 2005 Lions Tour but also of football, as Campbell exploits his friendship with Alex Ferguson.
Ferguson was a vocal supporter of the Blair administration (of which Campbell was an integral part) and as a result, the former Downing Street Press Secretary has plenty to say about Ferguson's time at United, and those who entered his sphere of influence.
Roy Keane naturally gets a mention, and we'll come to Ferguson's opinion of his former captain in a moment, but a criticism of Keane from Jamie Redknapp stands out.
According to a review in today's Sunday Times, Campbell recalls a chat with Redknapp in which the Sky analyst claimed that Keane "probably had too big an ego to be a manager". This was before he took the Sunderland job.
It's pretty unfair on Redknapp's part: Keane did a great job to get Sunderland promoted and keep them in the Premier League, and while his time at Ipswich didn't work out, to say that a man now working as an assistant manager for the FAI has "too big an ego" is wide of the mark.
Ferguson, meanwhile, told Campbell of Keane's purported "demons" when quizzed on his shock departure in 2005:
He felt he had what it took in so many ways but he had demons in there and they would come out. He was actually someone who didn't like people that much unless they met his own standards.
Campbell also reveals that he rang Keane's agent Michael Kennedy after news broke of his departure to offer some thoughts on what Keane should do in the future. This led to the floating of the possibility that Campbell ghostwrite a Keane autobiography, although none of this ever came to pass.
There are a few more lines from the book included in today's Sunday Times sports section.
