Remembering Roy Keane?s horror ?tackle? on Haaland
A Manchester derby held at Old Trafford in April 2001 ended 1-1, a result that suited both parties. With just a handful of games remaining in their season Manchester United were firmly on course to secure a seventh Premier League crown while City?s concerns were at the other end. A late equaliser by defender Steve Howey gave the Blues a priceless point in their ultimately futile bid to ward off relegation.
Of course, nobody recalls any of this, nor should they. The result and respective performances are inconsequential stitches in the rich tapestry of this fixture.Â
What happened four minutes from time, however, well that has gone down in infamy.Â
“I’d waited long enough. I f****** hit him hard. The ball was there (I think). Take that you c***. And don’t ever stand over me sneering about fake injuries.” That was Roy Keane, candid as ever, in his ghost-written autobiography published in 2002, as he recounted the atrocious foul he committed twelve months earlier, an act of revenge that saw the Irish midfielder fined £5000 at the time by the FA. As the ball spun out of his control near to the touchline it rolled to the feet of Alf-Inge Haaland with Keane scurrying after it. But clearly, the skin-headed bruiser had eyes only for the player, as evidenced by a knee-high lunge, studs first, that sent the Norwegian somersaulting through the air, then sprawled in worrying agony on the Old Trafford turf. No Roy, the ball definitely wasn?t there.Â
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