{"id":16187,"date":"2011-12-18T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/roy-keane-sheds-light-on-unresolved-fall-out-with-manchester-uniteds-sir-alex-ferguson\/"},"modified":"2011-12-18T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T12:07:00","slug":"roy-keane-sheds-light-on-unresolved-fall-out-with-manchester-uniteds-sir-alex-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/18\/roy-keane-sheds-light-on-unresolved-fall-out-with-manchester-uniteds-sir-alex-ferguson\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Keane sheds light on unresolved fall-out with Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United<\/a> legend Roy Keane has revealed that he was on the receiving end of a legal threat from the club back in 2008, and conceded that his professional relationship with manager Sir Alex Ferguson<\/a> has broken down.
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The 40-year-old passed up the opportunity to be part of a celebration of Sir Alex’s 25th anniversary at Old Trafford, and is quoted by The Sunday Times<\/em> as saying: “The way it [my United career] ended, the legal letter, I couldn\u2019t have gone and sat there like everything was great. He [Sir Alex] would come and we all stand up and clap, I couldn\u2019t have done that.”<\/p>\n

Keane’s comments provide some context for the recent verbal sparring between the pair in the media. The Irishman is currently a football pundit following spells managing Sunderland and Ipswich Town, and was critical on television of the Red Devils’ exit from the Champions League.<\/p>\n

In response, Sir Alex penned a thinly-veiled retort to Keane in last weekend’s programme notes, saying: “My immediate job is to sift through the disappointment and the criticism to get everything in perspective and I can tell you already that I still have faith in our players. We will take a lot of stick from critics and even from people we thought were perhaps on our side but we mustn’t dwell on that.”<\/p>\n

The Scot has also questioned the managerial acumen of his former captain, who was sacked as Ipswich boss in January following a poor run of results.<\/p>\n

Now Keane has in turn responded to Sir Alex’s barbs, suggesting that his one-time manager was attempting to turn United’s supporters against him.<\/p>\n

“There 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 that was ridiculous,” said Keane.<\/p>\n

“If you want to question my managerial record, listen, you could question every pundit\u2019s managerial skill in relation to his and we\u2019re all going to come up short [against Sir Alex]. But 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.”<\/p>\n

The former United captain also insisted that his former boss did not back him at all times, pointing towards the twilight of his career.<\/p>\n

“People say he stood by me in difficult times,” Keane said. “But [he didn\u2019t] when I was 34, not when I was towards the end and had a few differences with Carlos Queiroz. All of a sudden then, ‘Off you go, Roy, and here\u2019s the statement we\u2019ve done’.”<\/p>\n

However, he maintained that he harboured no ill feeling towards the club, adding: “I count my blessings to have played for Manchester United. All of my family are United fans and I don\u2019t have any bitterness towards Man United, please let\u2019s make that clear.”<\/p>\n

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