{"id":16150,"date":"2011-12-18T13:13:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T13:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/roy-keane-defends-right-to-criticise-manchester-united\/"},"modified":"2011-12-18T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T13:13:29","slug":"roy-keane-defends-right-to-criticise-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/18\/roy-keane-defends-right-to-criticise-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Keane defends right to criticise Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LONDON (AFP) \u2013 Roy Keane has lifted the lid on his strained relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson as the former Manchester United captain defended his right to criticise his old club.<\/p>\n

Keane provoked United boss Ferguson\u2019s ire when, working as a pundit for ITV, he said he felt United had \u201cgot what they deserved\u201d when they were knocked out of the Champions League this month by FC Basel.<\/p>\n

That comment did not go down well with Ferguson who questioned Keane\u2019s own managerial record, saying \u201c(Roy) had an opportunity to prove himself as a manager too.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Scot also raised the issue in his programme notes before last weekend\u2019s game against Wolves, writing about criticism of the club coming \u201ceven from people we thought were perhaps on our side\u201d.<\/p>\n

Keane believes Ferguson was trying to drive a wedge between himself and United\u2019s fans when he made that pointed reference and the former Republic of Ireland international sought out the Sunday Times in a bid to settle a few scores with his old manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was an angle there of trying to get the fans to look differently at me and I thought, \u2018I can\u2019t have that\u2019. I thought it was ridiculous,\u201d Keane told the newspaper.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can hardly do the TV wearing the United scarf and if me telling the young players to pull their socks up is such a hard thing to accept, I ask myself what kind of world are we living in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know how this works, absolutely. When I spoke to Alex about management before I left United, the two words he always used were power and control.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand power and control over people inside the football club, understand that 100 percent. But not power and control of the people who have left the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s trying to have power and control over me but I left Man United six years ago. So I just thought, \u2018You didn\u2019t need to go there\u2019, but having said that, it didn\u2019t surprise me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Sunderland manager Keane, who is currently out of the game after leaving his role as Ipswich boss, was also hurt by Ferguson\u2019s questioning of his managerial achievements.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to question my managerial record, listen, you could question every pundit\u2019s managerial skill in relation to (Ferguson\u2019s) and we\u2019re all going to come up short,\u201d Keane said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I would also say that without players like myself, maybe he wouldn\u2019t have such a good managerial record because players who go down the punditry road, it\u2019s soon forgotten that we put bodies on the line for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keane is one of the iconic figures of Ferguson\u2019s 25-year reign at United and the Irishman earned legendatry status among supporters after winning seven Premier League titles during his 12-year spell at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

His dynamic displays in midfield embodied everything Ferguson expects from his players, which makes the bad blood between them now all the more surprising.<\/p>\n

But Keane has never been one to hide his feelings and he had no qualms about accusing Ferguson of failing to stand by him following his abrupt exit from the club in 2005.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople say he stood by me in difficult times,\u201d the Irishman added.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he didn\u2019t when I was 34, not when I was towards the end and had a few differences with (former United assistant boss) Carlos Queiroz. All of a sudden then, \u2018Off you go, Roy, and here\u2019s the statement we\u2019ve done\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look back at the relationship and I sometimes wonder if it wasn\u2019t about me being good for him and good for the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cI go back to the two words, power and control. \u2018Say this, Roy, do this, pull this in a little bit\u2019, what I did or said was always for the good of the club. I suffered for that towards the end, then it was unacceptable. The difference was that I was 34.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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