It Started With a Handshake

In 2002 the football world was rocked by a catastrophic falling out between Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane, the manager and captain of the Irish national team, on the pacific island of Saipan. The event could not have occurred at a worse time, with the side about to embark on a World Cup adventure in Japan and South Korea and left a nation wondering what might have been. What if the tale of Mick McCarthy, Roy Keane, Saipan and all that followed had turned out very differently?