Roy Keane ‘necked wine from bottle’ and ‘thrown via bar window’ on evening out
Roy Keane has revealed he was once chucked out of a bar through a window having been swigging wine straight from the bottle.
The footie hardman and Manchester United icon, known for his fiery nature on the field, wasn’t exactly a shrinking violet off the pitch either. Keane had a particular hankering for a drink during his Nottingham Forest days.
One notorious tale involves ex-Forest defender Larry Lloyd, who hung up his boots and took over a pub in the city in the mid-80s. The Stage Door soon became the club’s Christmas party destination and was the backdrop for an alleged bust-up involving a young and brash Keane.
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Lloyd, who passed away in March at 75, once claimed he had to boot him out of one such bash. But Keane has now denied that happening, albeit holding his hands up to a similar ruckus elsewhere in Nottingham.
The truth came out during a ‘MythBusters’ special on The Overlap’s Stick to Football podcast, brought to you by SkyBet. When Gary Neville brought up the rumour, Keane was quick to dismiss it. : “Rubbish. The amount of stories that people said about me getting barred from pubs and bars in Manchester and Nottingham is absolute rubbish,” he said.
But then he dropped a bombshell. “I got thrown through a bar window in Nottingham,” Keane admitted. “I was in a wine bar, and I’d just come to United, and I remember I went back to Forest to check on my house. The reserves were playing, but I had a sneaky night out, and I used to go drink when I was a Forest player.
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“A couple of idiots in there, the usual stuff, particularly bouncers. I used to drink the wine from the bottle. I wouldn’t have the glass, it was cheap wine, like £6. I was with a few lads and a few words were said, and this guy threw me out through the window.
“I went through the window and a door, I landed out in the street, glass everywhere, it was like the wild west! I was on the floor, but I still had the bottle of wine in my hand!”
Keane then once again reiterated: “Not that pub [Larry Lloyd’s] – this was a different bar. I was never barred [from there]. I don’t think I ever set foot in that place.”
His recollection made podcast colleagues Neville, Wayne Rooney and Ian Wright burst into laughter. Keane hung up his boots back in 2006 after spells at Cobh Ramblers, Forest, United and Celtic.
