Roy Keane delivered the perfect punchline when regaling the Stick to Football panel about a bar fight he got involved with during his playing days.
On the latest episode of Gary Neville’s Overlap show, the panellists, which included Keane, Neville, Ian Wright and Wayne Rooney were all challenged to confirm or deny certain stories and rumours that had been told about them.
Unsurprisingly, the Irishman had the most to offer when it came to telling the truth about what really happened, and quite often, the truth was more entertaining than the proposed myth.
Neville asked his former teammate if it was true that he was once banned from a certain bar in Nottingham, when he was a player there.
The Cork native was quick to deny this fact, stating that rumours about his time in bars were scarcely true.
“The amount of stories that people said about me getting barred from pubs and bars in Manchester and Nottingham is absolute rubbish," said Keane.
However, just as it looked like that particular topic was a dud, and they weren’t going to get any steam off Keane from it, the ex Ireland international went on to tell an even better story, that had the rest of the panellists keeled over with laughter.
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"I got thrown through a bar window at Nottingham”, recalled Keane rather nonchalantly.
“I was in a wine bar, and I just came to United, and I remember I went back to Forest to check on my house.
“The reserves were playing, but I had a sneaky night out, and I used to go drink when I was a Forest player.
"I used to drink the wine from the bottle, I wouldn’t have the glass – it was cheap wine – like £6.
“I was with a few lads and a few words were said, and this guy threw me out the window. I went through the window and a door, I landed out in the street, it was like the wild west!
“I was on the floor, but I still had the bottle of wine in my hand!"
You can hear the anecdote around 35:30mins into the episode.
Keane was obviously known for being fully committed and ready to die on his boots during his playing days, so it's good to see that commitment was transferred to off-the-field matters too.
