One man who doesn't buy into the idea that Roy Keane is a big, scary, monster is former Ireland international Clinton Morrison.
The former Crystal Palace and Birmingham City striker always had a good relationship with Keane, and it seems that it was largely built on not being afraid of Keano and his intimidating stare.
Morrison is a guest on the upcoming episode of 'Know The Score', RTÉ's new sporting quiz show that launched it's debut episode with the O'Donovan brothers last week, and he revealed that from the moment he first arrived in the Ireland squad, people were walking on eggshells around Roy.
It was at a point where nobody was sitting beside the then Manchester United captain, but Clinton was having none of that and would regularly chat with him, but seemingly the moment that he truly earned Keano's respect came during a match against the Faroe Islands.
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Everyone's scared of Roy, aren't they? Everyone's scared of him.
We were playing a game, I remember it was Faroe Islands away, and he's given a bad ball... But Roy doesn't give a bad ball, and he's moaned at me.
And I've said "No, it's your fault" and he's looked at me straight away, his eyes, he'd gone. When his eyes go I knew I was in trouble.
The half time whistle was coming, so I've looked over to Kev Kilbane and gone; "Kev, I'm gonna need some help here because I think he's gonna come for me at half-time."
Gone in at half-time and I was sitting there thinking here we go, and he goes; "Nah Clint, you were right, come on let's get the second half won", so that was good.
You want Roy's respect? Stand up to him! But just make sure you're definitely correct first.
The two did seem to get on really well. If you go looking for photos of them together they are almost exclusively having a laugh. Here's an example:
We're looking forward to hearing more of Morrison's Saipan stories on 'Know The Score' which will be aired on RTÉ One this Sunday at 8.30pm.
