If, on a Wednesday night, you are looking to find your nearest, humble Content Producer in the event of an emergency (say something happened that the general public just WON'T BELIEVE, or that an act of decent humanity by a human being was going without the dumbstruck hyperbole it needed) you will find him/her/(okay, us) sitting in front of ITV's Champions League highlights show.
For this is the show that you'll find Roy Keane, sitting there, cross-legged with his misanthropic glare and his immensely clickable attitude to the shortcomings of others.
In entirely unrelated news, we happened to come across Keane alongside Lee Dixon and Mark Pougatch on ITV's Champions League highlights show on Wednesday night.
What jumped out at us is how well Lee and Roy get on. Many were surprised at the friendship Keane struck up with Adrian Chiles when he first began punditry with ITV, what with the latter's propensity for dedicating large amounts of time to talking shite. But they did, in fact, get on quite well, and even went jogging together.
We were never so sure about Keane and Dixon. Consider this from a few years ago, when Dixon said that "I don't understand books at all" in Keane's glowering presence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzCYXN1zHGY&t=2s
Such obvious eejitry from Dixon would, we assumed, have drawn Keane's ire. And perhaps it did, but a look at tonight's highlights show on ITV shows that Keane and Dixon do seem to have quite the blossoming bromance. Dixon is forever trying to crack jokes, and Keane, at times, can't help but laugh.
Here's the proof. First up, Pougatch (a man Robbie Savage calls 'Poogers') makes a gag about Arsenal bribing Alexis Sanchez with dogs to convince him to extend his Arsenal contract. Dixon makes a gag about Hampstead Heath, and Keane can't help cracking into a smile.
Secondly, Roy indulges in some classic TV b****r by making reference to his colleague's dress.
And finally, Keane can't help snigger at a classic Dixon line about hot dogs at the Camp Nou.
Best mates, really.
