Former Sunderland goalkeeper Craig Gordon has been speaking about Roy Keane's time as manager of Sunderland, as the Irishman has been linked to Hibernian. In fact, Gordon has claimed that it would be 'brilliant' for Scottish football if Keane took a managerial role north of the border.
"I think it would be brilliant for Scottish football in terms of the stature that he would bring, and the press attention that he would bring not only to Hibs, but to Edinburgh as well,” Gordon told the Scotsman. "I think he could be a very good manager, he proved that early on at Sunderland when he got them promoted [to the Premier League] and kept them in the league."
The Hearts goalkeeper mentioned that perhaps Keane's achievements at Sunderland were perhaps not looked at favourably at the time. Considering Sunderland 's current position in League One, their relative security in the Premier League under Keane looks all the more impressive in hindsight.
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"Maybe people didn’t think that was a huge achievement at the time, it actually was. To be able to do that, to get them promoted and keep them in the league for the whole time he was there…so, yeah, I would love it, let’s see if it happens."
Continuing to reminisce over Keane's time at the Stadium of Light, Gordon said: "There’s obviously been a couple of clubs where it hasn’t worked out for him, for whatever reason. But certainly while at Sunderland the spirit in that team to stay in that league, the amount of late goals that we got to get a draw or get a win that scraped us by to get enough points to stay in the league was a huge achievement."
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