Most Premier League fans are aware of the infamous clip of Man United's players, lead by Roy Keane, aggressively marching down and screaming at referee Andy D'Urso, after he had jut awarded a penalty to Middlesborough, and the first against Man United, in the league, for seven years.
The images are shocking, particularly to from a modern view, and it is an incident that Keane clearly regrets.
On The Over Lap tour with Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher, Keane discussed the incident, and while he admitted that the pictures are bad, he sent his partners into stitches by suggesting that they were edited, before producing a perfectly timed dig at Alex Ferguson:
I didn't think it was that bad at the time, you think you're just fighting your corner, and then you look and you go...
I think some of them [the photos] were edited. No I swear, I swear on my children's lives. I'm right up next to him, I didn't think we were that close.
Ye of course I was [photoshopped]. And do you know who's behind it? Ferguson.
Roy Keane Delivers Brilliant Alex Ferguson Quip
"You think you were photoshopped 20 years ago?" 😂
Roy Keane, @Carra23 and @Gnev2 are just a gift that keeps on giving 😅 pic.twitter.com/9i65DrCl2r— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) June 15, 2023
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In Keane's defence, he did apologise at the time for his actions and admitted that he and his teammates had gone 'over the top'.
"We went over the top. Obviously we shouldn't react like that. We regret it and it won't happen again. I promise you that.
"Footballers are under a lot of pressures, but dealing with it is part of the job. It's not right that we have a go at referees like that.
"As a captain I should be setting a better example. To go chasing the referee was wrong.
"We went over the top and the manager has had a word with us. At the time we thought nothing of it. We just thought it was a bad decision, and I've seen the incident on television and I still think the referee was wrong.
"But obviously we shouldn't have reacted like that, although if he had stood still I don't think we would have chased him. He kept running and we kept chasing."
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