Martin O'Neill was unveiled as the new Ireland manager at an FAI press conference today. Roy Keane was not present (he's at Aston Villa vs Cardiff).
O'Neill made a few attempts at humour during the event, though he often had to clarify that he was actually making a joke.
Here he says that he has asked himself several times why he requested Roy Keane to be his assistant manger before clearing up that he was actually joking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9t9C4jKpH4
Again, O'Neill has to spell out that he was not serious with a comment about Roy Keane saying he would reverse their roles as manager and assistant manager within ten minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwTm7_SruC0
Finally, he also had to clarify that John Delaney had not told him "in no uncertain terms" that qualification should be much more straight forward for Euro 2016 given that there will be twenty-four teams qualifying for the finals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReF4iKE-mqs
We needed Manuela to understand Trap, maybe we'll need a sarcasm translator for MON.
Picture credit: David Maher / SPORTSFILE
