Roy Keane showed his true colours when asked about his daughters dating amid huge announcement
Roy Keane showed his true colour when asked about his daughters dating life.
On the pitch, Keane won 17 trophies across his time at Cobh Ramblers, Nottingham Forest, Manchester United and Celtic.
But away from football, the famously curmudgeon Manchester United skipper is the father of five children with his wife Theresa - four of whom are daughters named Shannon, Caragh, Aidan, Leah and Alanna.
Famously, Leah's partner is England international and Southampton centre-back Taylor Harwood-Bellis.
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The couple were engaged last year and on Wednesday, revealed on Instagram that they were having a child.
Speaking on The Tommy Tiernan Show, Keane once admitted that the hardest part of being a father was the boyfriends.
He said: "No, they're ok. Listen when they get a bit older, I suppose boyfriends and that type of carry on, yeah that can be (shrugs)."
Tiernan joked: "I'd say it'd be fairly intimidating meeting you now in all fairness. Clint Eastwood in the kitchen."
To which the former midfielder replied: "You'd be very surprised. Surely that's the same for everybody."
Tiernan then continued: "You're so guarded. Maybe you're just so calm and settled and strong."
Keane said: "No, quite relaxed yeah. Do you want me to do a somersault or something? Very relaxed, nice drive up, we're good."
Harwood-Bellis has spoken in the past about his relationship with Keane.
Speaking while on England duty, Harwood-Bellis said: "It's something that's good and I've taken a lot of advice [from Keane about international football], yeah. Yeah [I'll lean on him for support].
"Everything's focused on Greece at the minute [over the Republic of Ireland game afterwards]. It's a big game, obviously with the result at home, so we want to go over there and get a result.
"It'll be a good atmosphere so it's something that we're looking forward to, and we'll take the challenge on."
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