Roy Keane jokes as future son-in-law Harwood-Bellis scores for England

Roy Keane has joked his daughter’s engagement to Taylor Harwood-Bellis is “not done and dusted” after the Southampton defender scored on his England debut against the Republic of Ireland.

Harwood-Bellis is due to marry Keane’s daughter Leah, but upset his future father-in-law by heading home the final goal of England’s 5-0 thumping over Ireland.

It came 17 minutes after he came on for his debut to cap a memorable night at Wembley for the 22-year-old.

Keane, who played 67 times for Ireland between 1991 and 2005, said while working as a pundit for ITV: “It’s bittersweet for me this. It is not done and dusted yet. Things can change very quickly in the Keane household, let me tell you. Over the last few months he has got a goal threat, even playing for Southampton. It is nice for him.

“It’s good for him, it’s good for him to make his debut, like I say he has a goal threat. He’s a nice kid, his family have done a great job, he is a really nice kid.”

Meanwhile, Heimir Hallgrímsson was furious about his side’s humiliating 5-0 hammering at Wembley, suggesting his players “gave up” after Liam Scales’ sending-off.

“Well, I’m kind of lost for words,” the Republic of Ireland manager said, after the penalty incident and red card preceded three goals in six minutes for England. “Six minutes of kind of madness. Yeah, it was a shock, conceding a penalty, conceding a goal, losing a player. We probably lost our heads at this moment, leading into a second goal and a third goal. And from there you can see, yeah, we maybe lost our head, gave up.

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“We’ve talked and I said before we’re struggling with confidence, and they clearly took away all confidence from what we did really well in the first half. So, yeah, you cannot explain things like this. It’s just happened, a slap in the face and was difficult to come back from it.”

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