Roy Keane has acknowledged that while he was a member of Manchester United, he had disagreements with Gary Pallister and Ryan Giggs.
Keane was famous for his no nonsense attitude and he was one of the United players that instilled fear in the opponents’ minds.
However, Keane has revealed that he didn’t see eye to eye with some of his Man United teammates.
‘Me and ‘Palli’ [Gary Pallister] didn’t speak for about 12 months [he left too early during a night out]. You just have these disagreements [as players],’ Keane admitted on the Stick to Football podcast, brought to you by Sky Bet.
‘Palli’s a good guy – I fell out with ‘Giggsy’ [Ryan Giggs], he wouldn’t do a function one time at the club – I was fuming with him. Me and ‘Giggsy’ didn’t speak for five or six months!’
About his feud with Giggs, Keane explained: ‘You know [as a player] when you have to do something for your club – nobody wants to do anything at the club.
‘I was like, ‘Giggs you have to do what [the club] wants, we’ve all done it and it’s just your turn next’.
‘Giggs was obviously good with stuff like that [doing functions] – it was just that day which I don’t mind, he went,
‘I’m not doing it’, and I was just irritated by him – simple as that and we dragged it on for a few months.’
Former team-mate Gary Neville recalled an incident where Keane and Giggs argued for ‘ten minutes’.
Neville said: ‘I walked in at 8am into the dressing room, I’m in there first, and then ‘Giggsy’ [Ryan Giggs] comes in and sits there – there were only three of us in the dressing room – me, Roy [Keane] and Giggsy. They started arguing!
‘I remember Roy saying you’ve done stuff for your testimonial or something like that and this [arguing] went on for about five minutes.
‘I thought, ‘I’m getting f*****g out of here!’ There’s nothing I can do so I walked out, I came back in ten minutes later and they were still going!’
Despite their sporadic arguments, Keane and Giggs won seven Premier League titles together while sharing the changing room at Old Trafford for 13 years.
