Roy Keane and Alastair Campbell have an interesting relationship.
Author and political aide Alastair Campbell was this week’s guest on Ireland Unfiltered with Dion Fanning and he spoke about a whole range of topics, from the UK turning into a “global laughing stock” over the Irish border to the benefits of having a second referendum on Brexit.
But he also spoke about a time he managed to annoy Roy Keane with some of his comments.
Dion: Was your temper or your anger a way of releasing those frustrations and those obsessive ideas and thoughts as well do you think? Do you think you fed off your temper a bit?
AC: What temper?
Dion: You had no temper?
AC: What temper you talking about?
Dion: This is like Roy Keane, if you talk to Roy Keane he’ll tell you he never lost his temper, he doesn’t know what people are talking about.
AC: Is that what he says?
Dion: Yeah, yeah.
AC: He had a little go at me about Burnley recently but…
Dion: Did he?
AC: Yeah.
Dion: About what?
AC: Oh, I’m not telling you.
Dion: Oh, go on.
AC: No.
Dion: Anything to do with Alex Ferguson?
AC: I’ll tell you exactly what it was. It was because he saw that I talked about a previous conversation on the television! And he said, is this one gonna appear on television? So there you go, Roy!
You can watch the full exchange from the 1:01:00 mark below.
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