First look at 'Mick and Roy' as portrayed by screen stars in Saipan the movie

The infamous sporting meltdown is will now be a movie

This is the first look at Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane - as portrayed by actors Steve Coogan and Éanna Hardwicke in the latest telling of Irish sport's most epic meltdown, Saipan the movie.

The Saipan incident was sparked after a public row between Keane and McCarthy while training for the World Cup, seeing Keane being sent home from camp in 2002. The first images to emerge from filming show the screen versions of the pair in a typically high-pressure and potentially volatile scenario as the nation's sporting hopes rested on their shoulders.

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