Keane initially found life in Nottingham difficult due to the long periods away from his family, and he would often ask the club for a few days' home leave to return to Cork. Keane expressed his gratitude at Clough's generosity when considering his requests, as it helped him get through his early days at the club. [12] Keane's first games at Forest came in the Under-21s team during a pre-season tournament in the Netherlands. In the final against Haarlem, he scored the winning penalty in a shootout to decide the competition, and he was soon playing regularly for the reserve team. His professional league debut came against Liverpool at the start of the 1990–91 season, and the resulting performance encouraged Clough to use him more and more as the season progressed. Hogan, Vincent (23 November 2009). "Shiny Big Bertha can end Roy's torture – and ours". Irish Independent . Retrieved 10 September 2010. Trust me, Triggs will approve. [...] The dog in Roy sees the lamppost in the FAI.

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Now I kind of wish I hadn’t," Keane writes "Afterwards I was thinking, ‘I’m not sure why I f****** apologised.’ I just wanted to do the right thing. Keane scored 33 league goals for Manchester United and a total of 51 in all competitions. [67] The first two of his goals for the club came in the 3–0 home win over Sheffield United in the Premier League on 18 August 1993, [68] the last on 12 March 2005 in a 4–0 away win over Southampton in the FA Cup. [69] There’d been a little bit of tension between us over the years, for football reasons. Peter would come out shouting at players, and I felt sometimes he was playing up to the crowd: ‘Look at me!’ James O'Dea, Arthur (16 December 2017). "Breaking: James McClean Is The 2017 RTÉ Sportsperson Of The Year". Balls.ie . Retrieved 23 January 2018.

Roy Keane has been critical of Sir Alex Ferguson and some of his other former colleagues at Manchester United in his book. Photograph: BPI/BPI/REX James Robson (5 July 2014). "United greats: Roy Keane". Manchester Evening News . Retrieved 15 January 2018.Roy Maurice Keane (born 10 August 1971) is an Irish football pundit, former coach and former professional player. He is the joint most successful Irish footballer of all time, having won 19 major trophies in his club career, 17 of which came during his time at English club Manchester United. [4] Regarded as one of the best midfielders of his generation, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players in 2004. [5] Noted for his hardened and brash demeanour, he was ranked at No. 11 on The Times ' list of the 50 "hardest" footballers in history in 2007. Keane was inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame in 2021. [6] [7] I now much prefer the second book. Less distance from the subject, a much smoother read, and, as you say, a wiser, more reflective and more welcoming self-critical angle. Or maybe it’s because I’m a thirtysomething now and not an early twentysomething. Keane provides the details of his falling out with both Ferguson and his assistant Carlos Queiroz which is in line with the manager’s version in his own autobiography released last year. His public criticism of his teammates on club channel MUTV was the catalyst behind his eventual exit. The former captain sought to work out their differences after a while but regrets doing it now.

Redmond, Robert. "One of Roy Keane's best qualities as a player is criminally overlooked and underrated". sportsjoe.ie . Retrieved 15 January 2020. La classifica dei 10 giocatori più duri e cattivi della storia del calcio" (in Italian). Yahoo.com. 25 August 2018 . Retrieved 15 January 2020. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-09-28 10:02:30 Associated-names Dunphy, Eamon Boxid IA1948713 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Defeat caps disastrous debut for quiet Irishman". sport.scotsman.com. Archived from the original on 19 August 2007.After the defeat, Keane blamed United's loss of form on some of his teammates' fixation with wealth, claiming that they had "forgot about the game, lost the hunger that got you the Rolex, the cars, the mansion". [12] Earlier in the season, Keane had publicly advocated the breakup of the treble-winning team [53] as he believed the team-mates who had played in United's victorious 1999 Champions League final no longer had the motivation to work as hard. [54] Opinions about Brian Clough were mixed in the dressing room. Some players were afraid of him. Others disliked him. Few grumbled that we didn’t see enough of the manager. My own view of Clough was coloured by the fact which remained foremost in my mind: he’d given me my chance, and I owed everything I now had to him. How many managers would risk their reputation by throwing a nineteen-year-old into the first team, at Anfield? A kid with no professional experience? More than that, his generous response to my requests for trips home to Cork had helped me through the difficult early days at Forest. Sure, he had his own way of doing things, but it worked for Forest. And for me.” a b "Roy Keane laments the loss of faithful friend Triggs". Independent . Retrieved 12 September 2018.

Again Keane was in the headlines after a heated press conference with journalists before the United States match. Keane got in a row with a journalist after he was questioned if he was becoming a distraction from the Republic of Ireland cause. [124] Eamon Dunphy called on the FAI and Martin O'Neill to stop Keane from giving interviews to end the circus of media attention around him. [125] Davies, Christopher (15 April 2003). "The Premiership elite selection 1993–2003". The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012 . Retrieved 2 October 2009. It now seems somewhat hypocritical for Keane to fall out with Irish players for not training when injured after making these comments in the second book. One thing is for certain is that as long as Keane is in the public eye controversy will follow him). A month later, before Ireland's crucial qualifier against Scotland, Keane was involved in an incident with a fan in the team hotel. An ambulance for the fan was called as well as the Garda Síochána, but no arrests or complaints were made. [118] The FAI and Martin O'Neill came out in support of Keane after the incident. [119] It later emerged that CCTV footage exonerated Keane of any wrongdoing. The man involved in the incident is Brendan Grace's son-in-law Frank Gillespie, who is believed to have asked Keane to sign a copy of Keane's autobiography The Second Half. Keane refused to do so, and Gillespie confronted Keane but then collapsed and an ambulance was called to the hotel. Grace stated that Gillespie and Keane were "old buddies". [120] [121]Initially, Keane was turned down from the Ireland schoolboys squad after a trial in Dublin; one explanation from former Ireland coach and scout Ronan Scally was that the 14-year-old Keane was "just too small" to make it at the required level. [12] Undeterred, he began applying for trials with English clubs, but he was turned down by each one. As his childhood years passed, he took up temporary jobs involving manual work while waiting for a breakthrough in his football prospects. In 1989, he eventually signed for the semi-professional Irish club Cobh Ramblers after persuasion from Ramblers' youth team manager Eddie O'Rourke. Keane was one of two Ramblers representatives in the inaugural FAI/FAS scheme in the Dublin suburb of Palmerstown, and it was through this initiative that he got his first taste of full-time training, facilitated by living in nearby Leixlip, County Kildare from Monday-Friday. [13] [14] [15] His rapid progression into a promising footballer was reflected by the fact that he would regularly turn out for Ramblers' youth side as well as the actual first team, often playing twice in the same weekend as a result. Whooley, Declan (10 October 2014). "Roy Keane at pains to shield family in latest book". Irish Independent . Retrieved 22 December 2018. a b Delaney, Miguel (30 March 2019). "Premier League 100: In praise of Roy Keane, the physical embodiment of Manchester United's winning attitude". The Independent . Retrieved 15 January 2020. Rich, Tim (19 November 2005). "Keane exits still raging at the dying of the light". Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007 . Retrieved 22 May 2010. a b Aizlewood, John (6 February 2005). "The top 10 Roy Keane battles". Times Online. London . Retrieved 24 September 2010.