Will

And I thought,

It would be better if you didn't know anything, obviously.

diffused him almost it's the same person they're just disarmed a little bit and I thought that was nice but your criticism of how his management of the situation was portrayed like ultimately Roy Keane did go home in real life so yeah maybe it's I'm not saying that obviously isn't what happened but as in it didn't get resolved it wasn't managed correctly on either side and they did blow up so that's fair too it's not as if like they pretended that

he went on when he stayed in real life.

I don't think he came across as weak as you guys did.

You don't think he's helpless in it?

I don't think so.

I do think, yeah.

I was not managing a situation yeah that was kind of cringe but also kind of funny but like I was not managing the situation yes but as I said the situation wasn't managed in real life so I obviously don't know what happened but to me the way it unfolded in the film wasn't I wasn't like oh my god that's like that must be a hundred million miles away from what happened obviously some of the conversations are fictional and some of the no it's do you know what that's true Mick did mismanage the situation in some shape or form I'm not apportioning blame and saying this is 80% him and 20% Roy or whatever I'm just saying it wasn't managed well

Like, it's a stupid plot device of, like, the way Joe described it, like, sidling up to him in a restaurant and being like, sorry about those knuckleheads.

Like, it's... I don't really... Not that I... I don't care necessarily that that's not what Tom Humphreys did back then.

It's just more that, like, the idea that... The idea any journalist would say, I'll interview Roy Keane now and I won't publish a word of it until after the tournament, it's just...

mind-numbingly stupid that's just like I can't get my head around why any journal a real person would utter that sentence so it's like that's that's kind of taking me out of it like if that's why I just thought it was so dumb but it's also it makes the story less interesting like say that say what we've just described happened in real life God it's actually more interesting if Keane did an interview and was like nah fuck it

Do we think that the reason they went down that route is because of... It makes it way more sympathetic in Roy Keane's favor.

But is it because of Tom Humphreys?

And his subsequent fall from grace?

No, no, no.

Is that why this composite character, instead of getting an actor to play Tom Humphreys, that maybe they were like, okay, we can't touch this.

Oh, you have one scene where she's wearing a big thing that says press in Tehran, and she's chasing Mick McCarthy, and he's like, no women in the dressing room, love.

You'd be sacked on the spot by your editor if you said that to Roy Keane.