Meet Triggs
- TV lover hypochondriac noted wit football genius & best friend to the most talked-about footballer of his generation. Whether leading Manchester United to the Treble or telling Mick Mc Carthy to shove the World Cup up his bollocks Roy was seldom out of the news. For more than ten years through good times & bad he could always rely on his friendship with his ever faithful Labrador retriever Triggs. Their walks became the stuff of rolling news legend. But what did they talk about on all those famous days when they took the air while being chased by a media pack? &
- at the end of the day
- who was really walking who? Now in his own words Roy Keanes dog tells the extraordinary story of their friendship & reveals his part in the glories & controversies that marked his masters career. From his arrival through a small ad in the South Manchester Advertiser through to Keanes final days as manager of Ipswich Town the brilliant but neurotic Triggs was never far from his side directing events as best he could. He was just a pup when he discovered while watching television one day in 1998 that he could read a football march like a virtuoso can read a five-line staff. But the brilliant but illness-obsessed dog always preferred to avoid the headlines & leave the adulation to his master. Until now. Ten major trophies. A missed Champions League final. Player of the Year awards. Alf-Inge Haal&. Drunken nights. Contract negotiations. Patrick Vieira. Prawn sandwiches. The explosive end to his relationships with Ireland & Manchester United. Triggs was witness to it all
- & a far from silent one. Funny frank & never less than one hundred & ten per cent mean-spirited Triggs tells the truth about what it was like to be a central player in the extraordinary drama of his masters life.