Well, you almost couldn’t make it up. Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane as a management dream team, leading Ireland into a new era. Reports abound that the FAI are edging ever closer to securing the signature of O’Neill, and with the former Celtic and Sunderland manager will come one Roy Keane. For all of the debating of candidates for the job over the past two months there was little suggestion that this could be a solution.

Are we set for a new era of Irish football, with the very best traits of O’Neill and Keane combining to raise a decidedly average squad of players above their station?

Or is this a monstrous disaster waiting to happen, with too many egos and cooks setting us up for an inglorious mess at the end of it all?