Keane: I regret Fergie apology

Date published: 07 October 2014


ROY Keane says he regrets apologising to Sir Alex Ferguson over the notorious MUTV interview which hastened his acrimonious departure from Manchester United.

Ferguson criticised Keane in his autobiography last year and Keane has hit back at the former United manager with a host of criticisms in his own book.

“The Second Half”, Keane's updated autobiography, was due out on Thursday, but a Tesco store in Burnage made a huge blunder by putting the books on sale 72 hours early, leading a national newspaper to publish Keane’s revelations The former United captain effectively withdrew an apology he gave Ferguson after the MUTV interview in which Keane was alleged to have criticised several of his team–mates.

“Afterwards I was thinking, ‘I’m not sure why I apologised’. I just wanted to do the right thing,” Keane writes.

Ferguson claimed Keane challenged his authority with the criticism of several members of the United squad, including Rio Ferdinand, Darren Fletcher and Alan Smith.

But Keane, who claims in the book that someone at United leaked details about the tape, says his criticisms weren’t harsh.

Keane doesn’t play down the severity of a row with Ferguson and his assistant Carlos Queiroz, who apparently accused the former United skipper of disloyalty.