Manchester United legend Roy Keane shared an awkward pause with Gary Neville after his fellow Sky Sports pundit made a suggestion to him about one moment at the club.
Roy Keane played alongside Gary Neville at Manchester United and the pair enjoyed incredible success under former manager Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford.
Both United legends were part of the team that captured the treble in the 1998-99 season, with Ferguson’s men becoming the first English side to achieve such a feat.
Keane, who named three players who were better than him, was an integral figure for the Red Devils en route to the final against Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou.
The 52-year-old Irishman delivered a sensational performance against Italian side Juventus in the second-leg semi-final clash in the Champions League.
However, both Keane and Paul Scholes were forced to miss the final in Barcelona after they picked up bookings and were suspended for the encounter with Bayern.
Neville’s suggestion to Keane
Roy Keane was forced to watch on from the sideline as Manchester United mounted a sensational injury-time comeback win against German side Bayern Munich.
Speaking on the latest Stick to Football show, Gary Neville suggested to former United teammate Keane that he should have lifted the trophy first on the night.
“When I look back now, you should have lifted the trophy really first time on the night,” Neville said.
Keane paused at Neville’s suggestion and the pair shared an awkward moment of silence before the Irish hardman responded to the United legend.
The Sky Sports pundit insisted that he would have been “cringing” if he lifted the trophy in that way and he “would have been really embarrassed” if it happened.
“No, I don’t agree with that,” Keane said on The Overlap.
“No, I don’t agree with that. I’m not against other people doing it or I know the rules have changed where I think you can’t be suspended, but at the time, no, I would have been really embarrassed, I would have been cringing, actually.
“We went down at the end, me and Scholesy [Paul Scholes], but that was really late into it where the lads obviously [were] sent on the pitch for [it] […] and even then it’s like, you come [on] and you’re like, ‘really.’ You know, you’re cringing.”
Phil Neville on Keane missing Champions League final
Former United star Phil Neville previously admitted that Keane missing the Champions League final was “one of my saddest moments in football.”
The Portland Timbers boss called his former United teammate his “best friend” and the “best captain” he played under in his entire playing career.
“I’d say that was one of my saddest moments really,” he told beIN Sports in 2020.
“Roy Keane, the captain, the best captain I ever played under and my best friend, didn’t have the opportunity to play in that game.
“Scholsely did play in Moscow a couple of years later, so he got his reward.
“For Roy, I always think of it as one of my saddest moments in football that he didn’t have the opportunity to lift the cup
“He was our captain, our leader, someone learned so much from.
“For him not to be on that pitch in Barcelona was something I felt really sad for him, but that’s football I suppose.”
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