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What did Roy Keane declare to Erling’s father Alf-Inge Haaland & did lighten up end Male City midfielder's career?
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What exact Roy Keane say differ Alf-Inge Haaland?
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‘It was done in cold blood’ – Keane’s assault on Haaland’s dad, 20 years on
Whenever Roy Keane appears on television in his role as a football pundit, David Bernstein, the former chairman of Manchester City, reaches for his remote control and switches to another channel.
Bernstein’s reputation throughout the football industry, including a two-year stint as chairman of the Football Association, is as one of the gentlemen of the sport.
But he has always found it hard to accept Keane’s presence on television when he thinks back to one of the more infamous episodes in the history of the Manchester derby.
Next month is the 20th anniversary. It was the day Alf-Inge Haaland — better known now, perhaps, as the father of Erling — encountered Keane at Old Trafford. And, no matter how many times you watch the footage, it is never any less shocking to see the moment when Keane brings down his studs on Haaland’s knee and his opponent flips into the air.
“I’ve never forgotten it,” Bernstein says. “From a personal point of view, that was the worst individual thing I’ve been directly involved in, and the worst I’ve ever seen on the pitch. As a human being, it was an awful thing to see.”
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Oh, Manchester, So Much To Answer For..
Look up some of the most recent Manchester derbies and the headline “Roy Keane cripples Alf-Inge Haaland” won’t be too far away. The 2001 derby brought a tackle that no matter how often you’ve seen it, is still toe curling in it’s brutality. As Simon Hatterson wrote in the Guardian:
“Keane should not have been merely sent off, he should have been imprisoned for assault. He admitted as much a year later in his autobiography when he revealed that he set out to cripple Manchester City’s Haaland. The tackle has an almost equally vicious backstory…Four years before the knee-capping, Keane had fouled Haaland when the latter was playing for Leeds United, and in doing so he seriously damaged his own knee ligaments. With Keane writhing in agony, Haaland told him to get up and stop faking it. Not the wisest thing to say to Roy "Killer” Keane and it was inevitable that Killer would take his revenge. And when he did it was horrendous even by his standards. As Haaland had stood over him, he stood over Haaland telling him, somewhat less politely, that he had it coming to him. Most terrifying of all, Keane was proud of his act of vengeance, and wanted the world to know that it was 100% deliber