Roy Keane's daughter Leah engaged to England footballer Taylor Harwood-Bellis

One of Roy Keane's daughters is engaged to a young England football star, it emerged this week. Leah Keane, who featured in a rare Instagram photo recently with her famous dad, is engaged to Taylor Harwood-Bellis.

The 22-year-old Southampton footballer, who might be lining out for England against Ireland in the Nations League competition at Wembley this Sunday, was asked about his relationship with Roy Keane during a press conference with the English media on Tuesday.

And while Harwood-Bellis didn’t go into detail about his relationship with Keane Snr, he did acknowledge the importance of having the ear of such an important footballing figure, saying: “Yeah, it’s something that is good and I take a lot of advice.”

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Leah is one five grown-up children that Roy Keane has had with wife Theresa. They have four girls, Shannon, Caragh, Leah and Aleanna, and one boy, Aidan.

In Roy Keane's recent post about visiting Leah, he said he was 180 miles away from his home in the north of England.

He posted a snap of the pair cosy on the couch, as he wrote: "No.4 thinks because she lives 180 miles away that I won’t pop in for a cup of tea. Always watching [eyes emoji]."

Harwood-Bellis meanwhile played all his junior and youth football at Manchester City and had been tipped for a big future under manager Pep Guardiola until he went on loan to Burnley and then Southampton.

A captain of the England under-21 side, he helped the Saints to promotion from the Championship in May when they beat Leeds in the play-off final at Wembley before joining the south coast club permanently in the summer.

Southampton have struggled badly on their return to the top flight, with just one victory so far, but that hasn’t reflected on Harwood-Bellis’s form. He has scored three times already this season, despite playing at centre-back. His form culminated in a call-up to the full England international squad by Lee Carsley, the interim England manager and former Ireland international.

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