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Thu 05 May 2004Roy plays it cool in beach hotel dramaSoccer: Another hotel. Another press conference. Somebody should compile a list of all these events and rate them. Five stars: Excellent (at least one walk-out). One star: Disaster (Mick McCarthy/backside/bacon slicer/Burton's window, etc). Tom Humphries reads between the lines at yesterday's press conference in MalahideAnyway, as promised (and promised and promised) Roy is back. Five stars straight off the bat. And a hotel by the beach too on a sunny evening in late May. All planned just so we can use words like "redolent" or "reminiscent of".