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MEET MRS KEANE
By Ruki Sayid
SHE has watched silently and stoically from the sidelines as her husband, once the toast of Irish and Premiership football, has tumbled spectacularly from grace.
The latest test for Roy Keane's loyal wife Theresa came at the weekend when the Manchester United skipper was sent off after elbowing former Ireland team-mate Jason McAteer at Sunderland.
And today, as Roy has the hip operation which will put him out of the game for three months, he knows his devoted wife will be the first to comfort him and the last to judge him.
She is, quite simply, his rock.
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In their 10 years together, the glamorous 32-year-old brunette has never been known to row with him in public or comment on his antics on or off the pitch.
Instead, when the team loses at home or Roy has had a disastrous game, Theresa calmly picks up the phone, cancels their restaurant booking and tells the babysitter to take the night off.
Knowing Roy will not be in the mood to go out or exchange pleasantries, she slips unnoticed into the players' car park at Old Trafford and drives him home.
"She has been the rock in my life," Roy says. "Just brilliant. She reads me better than I read myself." Theresa was the strong one when her husband was vilified by his countrymen over his foul-mouthed tirade against Irish team manager `Mick McCarthy in May at the World cup finals.
The campaign should have been the crowning glory of a brilliant career. Instead, it sparked Keane's downward spiral when he humiliated McCarthy, turned on his colleagues and was sent home in disgrace.
Theresa braved hordes of photographers camped outside their home as she drove her Chrysler Voyager to Manchester airport to pick Roy up after his return from the Far East.
A friend says: "She was so worried about his frame of mind she contacted his counsellor from his Alcoholics Anonymous sessions, because she was scared he would slip into depression. At times like this, Theresa is the only one who knows what to do."
Many who know the couple say she is the backbone of the family and the only one who can help him cope with his personal demons.
Those demons have emerged with a vengeance recently. Keane stunned the football world with sensational revelations in his autobiography, claiming that his two-footed lunge on Manchester City's Alf-Inge Haaland last year was a deliberate attempt to injure the player.
And there were fears for his state of mind after he got a red card for whacking Blackburn star McAteer at the weekend.
But Theresa has seen it all before. A friend says: "She has loyally stood by her husband through and through. She has had to put up with an awful lot and there have been testing times.
"She has dealt with allegations that he assaulted two women in a bar, that he beat up a fan and threatened a former neighbour with a knife.
"Theresa is a strong woman. But she is also a delightful person who likes nothing more than to be the loyal wife and a good mother to their children."
A shy home-maker who is a full-time mum to their four children, she is the opposite of another Manchester United wife, Victoria Beckham.
While the Beckhams' every move is documented and Victoria is as well known as her soccer idol husband, locals in Hale, Cheshire, where the Keanes live, have no inkling who Theresa is.
She can shop in Manchester without being given a second glance and attracts no more than a few quizzical looks when Roy is out with her in the village.
Most executives at United or in the players' lounge would not recognise her, and she rarely attends glitzy functions, galas or premieres.
On the few occasions when they go out for a meal, it is simple fare - steak and chicken at the Hale Wine Bar or ham hock and mash at the trendier Up and Down bar.
Even though Roy, 30, earns £90,000 a week and the couple are planning to swap their £1million mansion for a £2.5million Edwardian-style manor in Hale, their lifestyle is modest compared to those of other Premiership stars.
They met in 1992, when Roy was at Nottingham Forest. But the young secretary was less than impressed with the confident Irishman who tried to chat her up.
Roy remembers: "I spotted a beautiful girl in a club in town. Her name was Theresa Doyle but she blanked me. She was in a steady relationship and didn't seem at all impressed by Roy Keane, the great footballer. In fact, I think my reputation was as a downer for all kinds of reasons.
"From time to time we ran into each other around Nottingham. I knew some of her friends, who told me Theresa was a dentist's assistant. Eventually, after her relationship broke up, she relented and we went out together. I was in love."
Although Theresa was born in Nottingham, her family - like Roy's - is from Ireland. Even in the early days, she was a calming influence, and Roy began to re-evaluate his bachelor lifestyle and booze binges. When the offer of a contract at United came up, she gave him the confidence to go.
His transfer in July 1993 for £3.75million briefly made Keane Britain's most expensive player.
A family friend reveals: "Roy had to go on ahead, leaving Theresa behind. She was 100 miles away in Nottingham, pregnant with their first child.
"But even though she is not a huge football fan, she understood the wonderful opportunity Roy was being given and backed him all the way."
ROY writes in his autobiography: "My personal circumstances improved dramatically when the woman I loved agreed to come and live with me in Manchester.
"Now my life outside football was complete. It had real shape and purpose. Theresa was expecting our first baby, which was a wonderful incentive to grow up."
Their daughter Shannon Marie was born eight years ago, followed by Caragh, now six, Aiden, who will be four in two weeks' time, and baby Leah. Theresa shuns the limelight and has turned down lucrative offers from glossy magazines for glamorous photo-shoots.
Their wedding in 1997 was a low-key affair, a world away from the glitz normally associated with football marriages. The couple quietly exchanged their vows at the Church of Our Lady Crowned in Mayfield, Cork.
They enjoyed a week-long honeymoon at the Hotel Europa Palace in Capri.
Even then, the signs of what lay ahead were apparent. Roy should have been with the national squad in Ireland when he was in basking in the sunshine. He claimed afterwards that there had been a mix-up.
But Theresa's love for Roy has never faltered. He says: "I don't really mention her in public but she's just brilliant. I couldn't say I'm the easiest person to live with. She's had to bite her tongue a few times. I wouldn't say Theresa likes every part of the package. She knows I haven't got a halo over my head."
Then, with a knowing look, he cheekily adds: "Actually, that's what she likes about me. She also knows I am not the nastiest person in the world."
While she would never publicly either agree or dispute this, one story which gives some insight into her temperament has become part of Cheshire folklore.
According to locals at the Bleeding Wolf in Hale, where Roy used to drink, she once stormed in and dragged him out.
One regular says: "He looked ever so sheepish.
"He might be the one who intimidates others on the pitch, but at home she's very much in charge." (специально для Laisy)
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