Not exactly known for his soft touch, seeing Roy Keane in awe of other footballers is quite the rarity. However, when the Corkonian and Glen Hoddle sat down on the Overlap that's exactly what happened.
While on the podcast Keane revealed that Glen Hoddle was his childhood hero, Hoddle's days as player-manager of Swindon left the Corkonian reminiscing about the time Alex Ferguson got involved in a training ground drill and Keane's honesty proved a bit too much.
As a player, Hoddle was renowned for his technical ability, later as a manager, Hoddle would affirm his status as one of the greatest English bosses of his generation, but possibly his greatest achievement came at the intersection of both roles when he was player-manager of Swindon in 1991.
Speaking about the increasingly rare occurrence that would be out of place in Junior B football today never mind English football, Hoddle revealed that one of the most crucial aspects to success as a player-manager is ensuring that on the field players can hold the manager to account.
If you're a player manager and you don't say anything like that (if I need a bollocking I won't hold it against you), you're not going to get the best out of them, they're not going to feel natural so yeah players would...dig us out.
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Roy Keane on the time his honesty cost him dearly with Alex Ferguson
Glen Hoddle's remarks had Roy Keane reminiscing about a time when he tried to hold Alex Ferguson to account after the manager tried to get involved in a training ground drill.
Not known for his biting his tongue on footballing matters, or anything else for that matter, speaking on The Overlap, Roy Keane revealed that his training ground honesty on Alex Ferguson's footballing skills during a training drill sent the manager mad.
Ferguson used to have a go in the box, remember Ferguson when he was old playing, and I gave him a ball and he should've got it.
He said I had to go in the middle, and I said 'you shouldn't be in the boxes anyway'.
He went fucking mad he did.
He made us all run around the pitches remember, I was just trying to be honest with him you know what I mean.
While Roy Keane's unfiltered honesty may have made him one of the Premier League's greatest-ever captains, eventually it would cost him much more than a few laps of the training ground.
Keane whose honesty never seemed to waiver, would eventually leave Manchester United shrowded in controversy after an allegedly brutally honest interview with the club's media saw him and Ferguson come to blows.
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