Republic of Ireland coach Martin O'Neill says Roy Keane's new book will not act as a distraction.
Manchester United legend and current Aston Villa coach Keane made the headlines after copies of his book The Second Half were mistakenly put on sale briefly on Monday ahead of Thursday's official launch.
O'Neill said: "The most important issue here are our games, and Saturday [the match against Gibraltar] is really, really important. We have come off the back of a great win against Georgia and it's important to focus on that.
"Whatever headline... let's just say we came here and there hadn't been a book - there would have been something else, seriously.
"He [Keane] would have slipped down there on the field and we'd have been talking about that, maybe broken his leg or something like that. There would have been something.
"There will always be something here in the lead-up to games, and that I can guarantee.
"I genuinely don't know what the headlines are in the book. It obviously was going to cause some sort of furore at some stage or another - the very fact he put his name to this book would suggest that it's exactly what would happen.
"It's there and it doesn't matter. The games are the most important things for us."
