Roy Keane informed Man Utd star ‘f*** off to London’ with team-mate readying punch
Roy Keane unleashed a foul-mouthed rant at then Manchester United striker Teddy Sheringham – who’d annoyed another team-mate too.
Sir Alex Ferguson’s 98/99 squad was full of huge personalities that all came together to take the club to a legendary treble. However, it wasn’t all smooth sailing as these same traits led to some serious clashes among the players.
Andy Cole and Sheringham, who played together at Old Trafford for four years, are well-known for not exactly being best mates. Cole has previously said their beef kicked off when Sheringham blanked him during his England debut handshake in ’95.
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Sheringham’s transfer to United in 1997 was far from the start of a beautiful friendship, with tensions boiling over into near fisticuffs in the changing room after a spat on the field. It turned out that skipper Keane had his own bone to pick with Sheringham, too, reports the Mirror.
In the new Amazon Prime documentary 99, which delves into the backstory of United’s treble glory and the preceding decade, Sheringham said: “Like any workplace, there’s people you do like and there’s people you don’t like. Me and Colely (Cole) just didn’t rub each other up the right way from the word go.”
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Cole then detailed a heated confrontation with Sheringham, saying: “Teddy joined Manchester United, that season I remember conceding a goal. He turned around to me and said, ‘That was your fault’. My head was absolutely steaming then.
“I got into the dressing room and I lunged at him, I was just about to throw a punch. By the time I realised, Roy [Keane] was trying to fight him.”
Explaining his altercation with Keane, Sheringham said: “We had a fall out, Keaney turned around said ‘Why don’t you f*** off back to London with your f***ing Ferrari and your penthouse?’ I went ‘What are you popping me out for you Paddy f***ing…’ and he turned around and grabbed my tie and everyone jumped in and stopped it, saying: ‘What’s happening, what’s happening?'”
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Sheringham previously revealed Keane’s silence following the incident. “He didn’t say a word to me. He didn’t say a word to me for the next three-and-a-half years,” Sheringham claimed.
Keane penned in his 2002 autobiography: “Teddy arrived for training on his first day at the club in his red Ferrari, every inch the confident Londoner. The chemistry between us was never right.”
99 is available exclusively on Prime Video on 17th May when all three parts will drop globally
