Saipan 2025 Review Episodes

This week on Bad Dads Film Review, the lads tackle Saipan (2025) — the football drama built around the infamous Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy bust-up before the 2002 World Cup.After some classic warm-weather and football-season banter, the episode gets into the film’s central conflict: elite standards colliding with international-camp chaos. The review covers Keane’s mentality, the training-ground conditions, federation politics, and why this fallout still divides opinion.The dads discuss the performances in detail — especially the actor playing Keane and Steve Coogan as McCarthy — and debate whether the film is balanced or occasionally cartoonish in how it dramatizes events.A key thread through the conversation is that the film doesn’t fully force a “right side”; it presents enough for the audience to choose whether Keane’s demands were justified or whether his delivery cost Ireland too much at the worst possible time.