ROY KEANE was once involved in a furious bust-up with an English Football League star’s dad, it has been claimed.
During Keane’s time as manager of Sunderland, it’s been alleged the Manchester United legend got into a fight with Graham Kavanagh.
Greg Halford, who now plays for Hashtag United, revealed details of the apparent scrap while speaking on the Under The Cosh podcast after he had been called to Keane’s office.
Halford, 38, said: “One time, I was going into his office and Graham Kavanagh was in there before me.
“I’m sitting outside hearing all this shouting, tables moving and walls shaking. I was thinking ‘I don’t want to go in here next’.
“Kavs came out with a ripped shirt, sweating. I asked him ‘What the f*** happened?’ and he said ‘I had him [Keane] up against the wall and he was trying to rip my shirt off’.
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“I was s****ing myself going in. He’s just coming out of a fight with Kavs – and he’s lost!”
Kavanagh, 50, starred for a host of English clubs during his professional career which spanned from 1991 to 2011.
These included Middlesbrough, Stoke, Cardiff, Wigan and Sunderland before retiring at Carlisle.
And football appears to run in the family, with his 20-year-old son Calum Kavanagh now making his own way in the EFL.
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Kavanagh Jr. plays as a striker or attacking midfielder and currently stars for League Two side Bradford.
The Ireland youth international came through Middlesbrough’s academy while having loans with Harrogate and Newport.
After joining in February, he has scored two goals in four games for the Bantams.
His old man also appears to have put any bad beef with Keane behind him.
The 16-cap Ireland international revealed in 2014 how he received a text message from Keane, 52, after being sacked as manager of Carlisle.
He told the Irish Mail on Sunday: “There was one (a message) from Roy Keane.
“‘Welcome to the club.’ it said. ‘You’re not a real manager until you’ve been sacked’.
“Was he right? Yes. In the process of being sacked, when you are sacked, and immediately afterwards, you don’t see it coming.
“You are still so wrapped up in the intensity of getting the job right, of making the players better and getting results, and dealing with the finances that you don’t have time to sit back from it.
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“In the time of reflection after being sacked, you can look back and assess how you could improve, what you can do better.
“The fact is when you’re winning you don’t analyse things, when you’re losing you look at everything.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
