Vinnie Jones And Roy Keane Agree on 'Dirty' Hardman And 'Snake in The Grass'

Roy Keane and Vinnie Jones were in agreement when it came to their views about a former Premier League midfielder as they gave him descriptions including a 'snake in the grass' and a 'dirty little 'b*****d'.

Keane spent 12 years at United, where he lifted seven Premier League titles, the Champions League, four FA Cups and the Intercontinental Cup, amongst other silverware.

The Irishman scored 51 goals in 480 games for the club after joining in 1993 from Nottingham Forest for a then British transfer record fee of £3.75m.

Keane left in November 2005 after his contract was ended by mutual consent, and the midfielder ended his career with a spell at Celtic.

Jones spent his playing days with Wimbledon, Leeds United, Sheffield United, Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers before retiring in 1999.

The 61-year-old is best known for his time with the Dons, being a member of the so-called Crazy Gang which won the FA Cup in 1988.

Jones made more than 300 appearances and scored 23 goals across two spells for Wimbledon, and during his first spell with the London club, he was a team-mate of Dennis Wise.

The midfielder began his career at the Dons and won the FA Cup alongside Jones, before moving to Chelsea in 1990 and spending more than a decade at Stamford Bridge.

Vinnie Jones, John Fashunu and Dennis Wise with Wimbledon. (Image: Getty)

Wise won two FA Cups, the League Cup, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Super Cup with Chelsea, before spells with Leicester City, Millwall, Southampton, Coventry City, and Swindon Town before retiring from playing the same summer as Keane in 2006.

Both Jones and Keane have expressed similar views on Wise after they came up against him during their Premier League playing days, with the former saying in a Q&A session with talkSPORT that he felt his former team-mate was harder than him and a "dirty little b*****d".

And speaking back in 2023 on The Overlap, Keane described why he felt Wise was a 'snake in the grass'.

He said: "I think he [Wise] used to get away with it a lot because he was sneaky. He was a snake in the grass, he used to pinch people."

During his time with Millwall, Wise became player-manager and led the club to its first-ever FA Cup Final in 2004, which the Lions lost 3-0 to Keane's United.

Wise also took caretaker charge of Southampton in 2005, and became manager of Swindon in 2006, later taking charge of Leeds United before departing Elland Road in January 2008.

He has also had roles away from managerial positions at both Newcastle United and Como.