‘My agent instructed me what to ask Roy Keane – it was the most important mistake I made’
Football League journeyman Greg Halford made “the biggest mistake” of his profession by asking Roy Keane a selected query after signing for Sunderland.
The Hashtag United defender has performed for an astounding variety of golf equipment all through his 20-year profession. Now 38 and approaching the latter stage of his profession, he has had loads of time to look again on his highlights and lowlights.
And none have been decrease than when he first signed for the Black Cats in the beginning of the 2007/08 season, simply after that they had been promoted to the Premier League. With Roy Keane as supervisor, Sunderland made the full-back their first signing of the summer season by paying Reading £3.5million for the then 22-year-old.
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But Halford instantly put himself within the fearsome Irishman’s unhealthy books by questioning him concerning the path of the membership of their first assembly. And Halford has now admitted that his query – requested on the recommendation of his agent – was an enormous error on his half.
He instructed the Undr The Cosh podcast: “Keane was clearly holding tabs on me for six months. I flew up there, met him, went into his workplace and I used to be instructed by my agent ‘ask him these sort of questions’ like who else are you going to be signing? Because I used to be his first summer season signing.
“I assumed ‘if I’m coming from seventh positioned Reading I must know what sort of gamers you’re going to be bringing in, what your goals and objectives are for the subsequent season’. So I requested him that query and oh my God, the daggers that I bought.
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“I then read his book and he’s got a whole chapter about me, he said ‘I should’ve just pulled the plug [on the transfer] there and then.’ He just over-exaggerates everything and it just wasn’t the case at all.
“Probably the biggest mistake I made in my football career was asking him that question. From that point, he never talked to me.”
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Halford made his debut on 15 August 2007 in a 2-2 draw with Birmingham City and performed the next three matches earlier than being despatched off within the third – a 3-0 defeat to Luton Town within the League Cup. He made three extra appearances earlier than being despatched off once more.
Unsurprisingly, his fractured relationship with Keane meant he struggled for sport time and was despatched out on mortgage to Charlton Athletic after which Sheffield United the next season. He was bought to Wolves in July 2009.