Roy Keane reveals hilarious phone call with irate rugby fan after Man Utd red card

Roy Keane has ne'er been shy to talk his caput and the erstwhile Manchester United prima has ne'er been acrophobic to spell retired of his mode to bash truthful erstwhile criticised, adjacent by a supporter

Roy Keane erstwhile called a instrumentality aft they wrote a missive to him criticising the erstwhile Manchester United skipper for getting a reddish card.

The erstwhile Republic of Ireland planetary had his colleagues successful hysterics arsenic item however helium was told helium should beryllium similar ex-England rugby manager and skipper Martin Johnson. With Johnson having been handed his marching orders astir the aforesaid clip for leaving Duncan McRae with breached ribs, Keane wasn't going to miss his accidental to respond erstwhile the protagonist had near their number.

In speech with Gary Neville, Wayne Rooney, Ian Wright, Jill Scott and rugby prima Lawrence Dallaglio, Keane told the communicative connected the Overlap. "I got a missive from a rugby fan," Keane said.

"I got sent disconnected for United, and I got a letter, and I deliberation the feline was surviving successful Leicester. He was slagging maine off, saying 'you're disgrace, you're a thug, you should beryllium much similar the rugby players,' right?

"He said that to me, and helium notation Martin Johnson, but the feline near his number. A week earlier Martin Johnson got sent disconnected for breaking somebody's ribs.

"So I rang this guy, and I said: 'You're sending maine letters comparing maine to rugby, Martin Johnson was sent disconnected for breaking somebody's ribs.' He was saying you should beryllium much similar him?"

"I'll archer you what you'd person gone precise good successful the rugby team, you'd person been good mate," Dallaglio responded. "It's a accidental to vent immoderate of that choler out."

It turns retired it's not the archetypal clip Keane has offered his verdict connected rugby. On a accidental gathering betwixt Manchester United and the British and Irish Lions successful 2005 astatine the Vale Resort, adjacent Cardiff, Keane was asked to springiness a prediction by a rugby prima up of their circuit of New Zealand.

"I said to Roy 'you could person been a small spot little brutal'," Dallaglio recounted. "I knew we were going to lose. I've looked astir and thought we haven't got the cavalry, and we're playing a precise bully New Zealand side.

"I saw him chatting to a fewer of the boys and I'm conscionable reasoning 'be bully to them'. One of them asked the question, and helium said 'yeah, you're going to get bushed 3-0. This is earlier we'd adjacent near to alert to New Zealand and I'm reasoning 'he's close but helium could person said thing different."

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