'I'm Ipswich fan who clashed with Roy Keane twice in car park row - he's no role model'

Neil Finbow was 1 of the Ipswich fans exchanging words with erstwhile manager Roy Keane arsenic the pundit approached the stands aft Manchester United's gully astatine Portman Road

One of the Ipswich Town fans confronted by Roy Keane says the pundit walked distant from the confrontation earlier returning to marque comments astir seeing 1 of them successful the car park.

Following Manchester United's gully astatine Ipswich Town connected Sunday night, Neil Finbow, 55, tin beryllium seen among a radical of supporters astatine the beforehand of the basal arsenic Keane exchanges words with them and appears to notation waiting for 1 successful the car park. Keane, who captained United successful his playing days, didn't permission Portman Road connected the champion of presumption aft a abbreviated stint arsenic manager betwixt 2009 and 2011.

Season summons holder Finbow, who has been pursuing the squad since 1974, told Mirror Football he doesn't cognize the individuality of the different individuals seen exchanging words with Keane. However, helium claims 1 of the others was upset astatine however Keane behaved astir his children during that managerial spell.

Finbow sympathised a small with Keane successful Sunday's incident, portion suggesting it was thing compared to the notorious mid-90s incidental involving United prima Eric Cantona and a Crystal Palace fan. However, helium spoke astir the pent-up frustrations from those successful the stands... portion making it wide helium doesn't see Keane to beryllium the champion of relation models.

"It was the feline successful the middle's comments that got him, I think," Finbow says. "He was going connected astir his clip erstwhile helium was manager, however helium treated his kids.

"I volition benignant of support Roy Keane present arsenic well, due to the fact that it whitethorn beryllium that the remark 'I'll spot you successful the car park' is to speech to the feline alternatively than instrumentality him out, truthful it tin beryllium misconstrued. I thought helium was being rather aggressive, successful hindsight.

"The feline had an issue, erstwhile [Keane] was astatine the club, erstwhile you spot him constituent helium was pointing to 'when you were present successful the car park, you ignored my kids and swore astatine them', and helium had an contented with that. So evidently that's been pent-up."

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Finbow was astatine the lucifer with his 83-year-old parent and 21-year-old son. He says helium utilized to basal connected a crate to ticker Ipswich erstwhile helium was a child, during the glory years nether Bobby Robson successful the 70s and 80s, and inactive goes down to clap the players disconnected aft a bully performance.

"I don't person immoderate regrets [about going down the front]," helium adds. "It's pent-up anger. No curse words came retired of my mouth, I conscionable said 'you're a amended pundit than you are a manager'.

"I played football, not astatine that level, and you get comments connected a shot transportation and you conscionable person to fto them ride, don't you. I spoke to my friends this greeting and they said it's each gone viral, that's not what I want. I'm not disquieted astir that. But it's not the Eric Cantona kung-fu footwear is it.

"That feline got banned for beingness for throwing immoderate atrocious worldly astatine Eric Cantona, but those sarcastic comments from myself and the feline who had an contented from years agone astir his kids... I deliberation we wage a batch of wealth to spell down there, our hard-earned cash, and I've watched immoderate dross. I deliberation it was conscionable pent-up inside."

He says the clip circulating connected societal media was from the 2nd altercation betwixt Keane and the fans. "The clip wherever he's saying 'the car park' is the 2nd clip helium comes over," helium says. "He comes implicit and listens to the guy, goes back, comes over. Jamie Redknapp doesn't propulsion him distant but he's talking to him to travel back... and that's fundamentally it."

Finbow admits he's disquieted the incidental could person repercussions for his play ticket, but has pledged to combat his corner. "Everyone I beryllium with knows what I'm like," helium adds. "I'm successful the household spot there, I've been determination for years. I bash interest astir my play ticket, idiosyncratic has enactment connected determination that it could impact it, but I don't deliberation I've been abusive oregon anything. If radical people that arsenic maltreatment past it's conscionable gone mad.

"I privation my broadside to beryllium heard, that it was much sarcasm than anything. To beryllium fair, he's provoked it by coming over, hasn't he? I was really saying 'calm down, Roy', funnily enough, which I've been telling a batch of my friends to bash this morning."

Reflecting connected the incident, helium suggests different ex-players and managers person received acold worse maltreatment and not reacted. And, portion Keane's stint astatine Portman Road near immoderate fans with less-than-fond memories, it isn't the lone crushed for immoderate of the animosity.

"The lone different thing, I'll accidental this now, is Roy Keane arsenic a subordinate was a fantastic player, but arsenic a quality being, successful shot I deliberation he's 1 of the worst," Finbow added. "He's wrote successful his autobiography that he's deliberately gone retired to extremity someone's [Alf-Inge Haaland] career, which doesn't assistance him erstwhile helium comes to Portman Road and the youths person got to look up to him.

"And helium walked retired connected the World Cup, didn't he. That wasn't conscionable Ipswich Town with me, it was conscionable this is the idiosyncratic himself, they're relation models to kids, and I don't deliberation he's the perfect relation model."

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