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SOCCER ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE:SUNDERLAND ARE expected to discover this morning if Roy Keane is to remain as their manager. After three days of discussions behind the scenes between Keane, chairman Niall Quinn and other advisors close to both parties, talks broke up last night with Keane still uncertain as to whether he wishes to continue in a job he started two years and three months ago.

Keane voiced his self-doubt loudly last weekend following Sunderland's 4-1 home defeat by Bolton Wanderers and is understood to have spent the days since weighing up his suitability for management in the modern era. Privately there has been support from Quinn but also a recognition that Keane's relationship with his players has frayed over the past month.