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Roy Keane went a full season without talking to a Manchester United teammate
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Published 15:06 2 Apr 2023 GMT+1

Roy Keane went a full season without talking to a Manchester United teammate

Former Man Utd captain Roy Keane went a full season without talking to a teammate at Old Trafford.

Jack Kenmare

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A former teammate of Roy Keane has claimed he didn't say a single word to him for a full season during their time at Manchester United.

Gary Pallister, who played alongside Keane between 1993 and 1998, clashed with Keane in Marbella, Spain, when United were on a pre-season tour.

The 57-year-old former defender has previously insisted that it wasn't a full blown fight, but rather a “heated exchange” after “probably" having a few too many drinks.

But now, Pallister has provided some more detail on the so-called altercation – a feud that was only resolved when Pallister was about to rejoin Middlesbrough in the summer of 1998.

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Speaking to the Daily Star, he said: "Oh, man. [laughs] Yeah, we kept that quiet for a long time, actually.

"We had a fallout in a pre-season tour. We were both stubborn enough. It was funny because we'd shake hands before a game and sort of laugh, but neither of us would break the ice. So we went through the whole season being like that.

"And then it was actually the year I left. I came back to get my stuff out of the Cliff, my boots and trainers and things like that. And he was walking down the corridor into the home dressing room when I was walking out.

"We start walking into each other and we both started laughing and he put his hands out and shook my hand and he just wished us all the best at Middlesborough, and that's how the ice was broke.

"I mean, we're fine now, but it was just weird. Neither of us would sort of be the first one to offer the hand up and say, right, let's be mates.

"Just stubbornness on both of our behalf, really, I think. But that's how it all panned out in the end."

Image credit: Alamy
Image credit: Alamy

Keane gave the silent treatment to a number of his former teammates at United, including Rangers legend Andy Goram.

Goram, who won five Scottish league titles with Rangers in the 1990s, opened up on his 2000-01 spell at Old Trafford and the death stare he got from Keane - a childhood Celtic fan - as they agreed there was "no point" in even talking to one another.

"We had nothing in common. His beliefs and my beliefs are a mile apart," he explained.

"We just never spoke," Goram said on the Anything Goes podcast with James English. "We had nothing in common. His beliefs and my beliefs are a mile apart.

"I met all the players in the dressing room, Steve McClaren took me around. I knew most of them, the Nevilles and all that, I played cricket with their dad.

"And it came to Roy Keane and you know, you shake hands. He just looked at me and I went, 'There's no point is there?' And he went, 'No'. And we never spoke for three months.

Goram went into further details on how Keane "hated the sight" of him at Manchester United in his autobiography/

"Shark's eyes. Dead, devoid of emotion, glaring at me. No handshake. Welcome to Manchester United. Roy Keane-style," he wrote.

"The man who saw himself as the heartbeat of the Reds was giving me a message. He just looked right through me as the embarrassed Steve McClaren, the United No 2, tried to introduce the new on-loan keeper to his volcanic captain.

"From that second I knew there was no point in me making an effort with Keane. Roy had things he stood by, things that framed his life, beliefs he clung to with a burning intensity. Well, I had mine. What he did to me on that first morning at work at the most famous football club in the world didn't faze me.

"He was a Celtic man, I was a Rangers man. He didn't like me. End of story. Fair enough. After all, I'd done enough to make some Celtic fans dislike me in seven years at Ibrox.

"There was to be no handshake. Ever. The truth is we didn't exchange a civil word in the three months I was at Old Trafford."

Featured Image Credit: PA

Topics: Roy Keane, Manchester United, Premier League

Jack Kenmare
Jack Kenmare

Jack Kenmare is the Senior Journalist for SPORTbible, one of the world’s biggest social publishers. He specialises in long-form feature writing and has an encyclopedic knowledge of Football Manager wonderkids from 2005 to the present day. He has a BA (Hons) in Journalism and News Practice.

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