'Roy Keane was immense in every way' | Gary Neville & Teddy Sheringham on their #MUFC teammate

I wanted to ask you about Roy Keane. You obviously played in it in the early years of it. You made it clear that he was the difference between us being a very, very good team and an exceptional team. Which is quite a statement about an already brilliant Manchester United side. team, why specifically was that? Well, Kaz has obviously told them about Sir Alex's drive and his will-to-win mentality. Keaney had that in abundance too, if not more than Sir Alex. He was Sir Alex's lieutenant in the field, whatever that was. us in the dressing room, Roy Keane took him out on the pitch and demanded it on the pitch from

every

Manchester United player who put on the red shirt, he just had that aura about him, he didn't care who he bothered.

It was the drive to make Mantis United a better team on the field and without a doubt, if you know, Gaza mentioned the best midfielders we had, but if Roy didn't play, we weren't the same team. I know if Gaz feels the same way about it, but I definitely, yes, definitely, he's what I said the most last year when we did this interview, the most influential football player I've ever played with in terms of his impact on the rest of the world. his

teammate

s, um, huge. on the field in

every

sense, if we needed to defend he would be the defender, if we needed to pass and maintain possession he would be the passer, and if he wanted to attack and penetrate the box then he goes and gets in the box and he throws the ball too and he's just an incredible football player, I mean, with a determination that you can't even begin to put into words, you just have to witness it, it was kind of ridiculous, um, the. the determination and kind of obsession with winning and doing anything to win and making sure that his

teammate

s did everything they could to win and drag them down with him.

Teddy mentions the aura. I mean, it's always amazing to hear from fellow professionals as motivated as yourself. Gary, as we mentioned at the beginning of the interview and yet his aura seems on a slightly higher plane, but you made the point clear last year in Dublin, it's complicated, you know he's often very, very shy, sometimes He said or knows that it is very. very funny and this is a really multifaceted person and we get the cartoon very often yeah I'd like to say I've worked you know obviously I see myself lucky enough to work with him with Sky and you see someone who's a lovely storyteller. someone who is funny, humorous and to be fair, don't you need to sit here and talk about this stuff?

Really, the things that if you know him, you would know and you don't need to talk about them, but, um, The football player was an

immense

character and personality, someone who had enormous talent in terms of the way he could play the game. game because I had the strength and the stamina and the stamina, but I had the intelligence and the skill as well and the kind of knowledge about how to play the game um, but off the court was one of the guys, um, you don't know, it's minor. , alex, you know, the hair dryer is one percent of

their

lives, yeah, maybe a point one percent of

their

lives. life and the same with Roy, it was 0.1 of his life, but it's the point that stands out obviously in terms of what people want to mention, but it's not his actual personality type or what it is that I'm not with OK. that there's a little more than point one, right, well, you said there's eight at five, five point two, I think outside the store maybe more with me, yeah, and all you young people, yeah, he used to take out to New York, I mean, and the boss and, to be fair, I think it's because we needed something, we felt like, actually, we really thrived on it, we thrived because that's what made us more alert, we live off of it, we have that idea that you're always on guard every day. you're on guard you couldn't lower your standards there was someone there watching you it's almost like they were father figures you know my dad was like that when I was younger do you know what was happening to you today if I played after a game the first thing you said to me in the car what was wrong with you today were his words and you knew you were going to be questioned on the way home about why you weren't at your best why you weren't playing well why you didn't do this and that's what you need you know the element of this no. it's not being stressed you've been stretched you've been stretched all the time and you have to challenge people and you have to be able to criticize and say harsh words, but sometimes in a way that means people grow because there are no athletes of elite or an athlete who has played at the highest level for 15 or 20 years has had it easy and has not been pressured and stretched and demanded, I will tell you what is unusual with Roy, you know that in every club, in every big club, You have leaders who demand things, he didn't care if you hated him, while many, many leaders also want to be loved at the same time and you know you don't want to come out and laugh, but with Roy that wasn't the case at the end of the day. , all I wanted to do was win. and being the best and not caring who he bothered and who he didn't talk to and who wasn't friends with him that way to get to the top, that's probably what divides him from people like Shira maybe. who was who was a proper leader and the demand for, uh, top level, Tony Adams, you know all these players, I think they are all the best players and leaders of their clubs and captains.

I think Roy just didn't give a damn who he bothered along the way to make Man United the best, yes I would agree I played under Stuart Pearson with Todd Adams and Alan Shearer and great leaders but no there's nothing close to it in terms of the impact it would have on his other place. the team, the players he played with and also the opposition players, not by a long shot, um, it was a different level, uh, of captain, someone you would know, I got the captaincy when he left, but I always say this, I never i would have wanted roy

keane

to go to the front of the arsenal tunnel i knew we were going to be a winning team if he was there and

gary

in dublin last year is so forceful and determined that he won't give in, everything is very clear, would you have said after him about whatever topic we discussed that night, hell, sometimes you don't help yourself because you don't smooth out that percentage for me um no, I don't think I mean I would talk to him about it, but no not the way that he knows.

He's completely aware that maybe everything he's doing is smart, he's been on television, he's done interviews for 10, 15, 20 years. I remember after the Bayern Munich game that we lost, I think it was 2001 and he was very critical and I remember that interview and if I think back, he was absolutely right at that time because we had won in '99 and we should have gotten along with that team to win the following year, in the year after we didn't, we could. Not to reach that standard again and he demanded of us after the game against Bayern Munich. He said he's not good enough, we've fallen below our standards, you know that and I think that's how he was.

He would do things in interviews, because he said what he thought, he said what he thinks, um, I would never go to him and say, "I think you should do this differently or that differently" and I don't think that actually go to other people and tell him that. or then he wouldn't expect anyone else to live up to his standards or he wouldn't do to someone else what you know he wouldn't do to himself, so if we said something in an interview that wasn't quite right, I don't think he'd come and tell us. say too much, it wouldn't bother him, that was just noise as far as he was concerned, the most important thing for him was on the field, um every day in training and every time we won a football every time we played a game of football we had to win we had to win just like that, what was your interesting moment reading the clock the other night?

In fact, I quite enjoy those moments because For me, that's how it should be, it should be that sometimes that disagreement, that tension in the studio, too many studios on television where you can see that everything is prepared to death, everyone knows What are they going to say before burning their analysis. and their rehearsals in tatters because basically it's like and it comes out at night you can tell it's like a it's almost like boredom watching it because you feel like they're repeating it for the sixth time those moments live and that's that program on Monday night Football are four hours of live television, everything is live, that's why I say it's the most demanding show, that's why it's the most difficult show to do, but in reality it's the show where you get those tense moments.

You also think that's the idea. that it's just there, it's happened, it's someone reacting to someone else and you don't have time to plan it and there for me, when you have the best moments on television when you haven't had time to plan it, you don't know the questions You don't know what's coming next , you don't know what he's going to say, so now when I go to football on Monday, we carry on, we don't tell each other what we're going to say anymore, we basically just leave it. and it's spontaneity because that's important and that's what we saw the other night, those are great moments, that moment will play out for the next 12 months, yeah, I thought they were both on the spot, to be fair, Keaney broke it down how we ended up to say. what he was, he was, who to the nth degree was the proper professional he was and there were a couple of sloppy moments in Liverpool's performance, otherwise Arsenal would have had no chance.

This is what Keaney is trying to say. There were a couple of chances where Arsenal could have scored without a doubt, so for them to have a couple of chances it has to be sloppy somewhere, but then Klopp comes along and hears the end of that and says sloppy, surely that can't happen? be bearable, we just have Tonight has been fantastic, we put in a performance that was incredible and in the second half there was a very, very good team, so they were both in their right way of saying a bit careless because they could have conceded. but what a performance too, I was proud of my team and they were good, so you know, that's the television we have.