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Topics: Roy Keane, Football, Chris Kamara
Nasir Jabbar
Roy Keane couldn't help but smirk when Chris Kamara delivered a cheeky comment during an interaction in an elevator.
Keane enjoyed a legendary playing career, winning an impressive seven Premier League titles with Manchester United.
The ex-Red Devils captain is now a pundit for Sky Sports and ITV, having tried his hand at management.
He entered management when he was appointed as Sunderland boss in August 2006.
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He led Sunderland to the Premier League after winning the Championship in the 2006/07 season.
But his spell at the Stadium of Light came to an abrupt end when he chose to step down with the club lying 18th in the Premier League following five defeats in six matches.
During his managerial stint at Sunderland, Keane bumped into Kamara in an elevator of a London hotel for an away fixture.
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At the time, Kamara was working as pundit for Sky Sports, establishing himself as a popular reporter on the iconic Soccer Saturday.
Amid Sunderland's relegation battle in the Premier League, the former Bradford City player poked fun at Keane, who produced a priceless reaction.
"He [Keane] was manager of Sunderland and they were struggling at the bottom of the table, right," Kamara recalled on The Peter Crouch Podcast. "And the Marriott in Kensington, remember? So all the teams stayed there because the Football League had a deal with the Marriott Hotel.
"So me, Jeff [Stelling], Charlie [Nicholas], and Tommo [Phil Thompson] would all be at the bar propping it up and all these teams and their managers would come in, and Sunderland were there that night. I didn't know it."
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Kamara continued: "So I'm in the lift to go down to the bar to meet Jeff and the boys. I get in on the fourth floor and on the third floor, the door opens and it's Roy Keane. So I'm just about to say hello and he's put his head down straight away.
"I thought, ‘Oh God’, you know. The door's closed and the announcer used to be in those lifts. She says, ‘Going down’, and I said, 'I think she's talking to you, Roy'."
Keane is notoriously difficult to amuse given his status as a Premier League hardman, but Kamara's brilliant anecdote is proof that the Irishman loves a bit of banter.