Roy Keane mocked by Ricky Gervais after furious spat saw him offer fan out in car park

After Roy Keane was mocked connected societal media for confronting an Ipswich Town instrumentality astatine Portman Road, Ricky Gervais besides decided to person a laughter astatine the Irishman's expense

Ricky Gervais poked amusive astatine Roy Keane aft the ex-Manchester United skipper furiously clashed with an Ipswich Town fan.

The comic mingled with United icons Roy Keane and Gary Neville arsenic good arsenic Ian Wright, Jill Scott, and Jamie Carragher during a peculiar quality connected the Overlap podcast, which premiered connected Thursday.

Before the show, Keane argued with a instrumentality astatine Portman Road portion moving connected Sky Sports, 13 years aft his spell arsenic manager of the Tractor Boys. The quality ended with the fiery Irishman telling the protagonist to conscionable him successful the car park.

Gervais saw his accidental to poke the carnivore further up of the merchandise of this Thursday's Overlap occurrence by responding to a tweet from Carragher promoting the show.

Carragher wrote "Bloody loves shot @rickygervais [laughing emoji]," to which Gervais replied: "I'm conscionable gladsome Roy didn't privation to chat to maine successful the car park."

Keane, who was sacked by the East Anglian broadside successful 2011, was goaded by the instrumentality pursuing Ipswich's 1-1 gully with Manchester United. Setting his microphone aside, the erstwhile midfielder stepped distant from the Sky Sports table and squared up to the man. He was past heard saying: "I'll hold for you successful the car parkland and we tin sermon it."

Portman Road's information swiftly escorted the heckler distant and Sky Sports has launched an enquiry into the altercation. Neil Finbow, the instrumentality who claims to person confronted Keane, aboriginal bragged astir the incidental connected societal media.

He wrote: "New assertion to fame - conscionable been offered retired into the carpark by Roy Keane aft a fewer prime words. Even Jamie Redknapp had to travel implicit to get him distant - conscionable ya mean Sunday evening out.

"I was reminding him that helium acceptable america backmost 5 years and ruined our shot club. I besides mentioned however helium wasn't acceptable to measurement ft anyplace adjacent our ground.

"Oh, and I mentioned astir him walking retired connected a World Cup and breaking [Alf-Inge] Haaland's limb and putting it successful his autobiography. I hatred the bloke, and that's been boiling up since helium got sacked each those years ago."

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