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22nd June 2018
04:12pm BST

Keane said after the match that he had learned towards the end of his playing career that arguing with officials would generally result in less favourable calls towards his team, a point that was quickly picked up on by O'Neill.
"What I thought towards the end of my career, maybe it was a bit late, I used to give referees a hard time," Keane said before O'Neill interrupted "towards the end of your career? I would have said 15 minutes into it."Keane continued: "The penny dropped for me but then you soon realise that the more you give referees hassle, any 50/50 decisions they will go against you but I found that out too late." O'Neill countered Keane's point and said that his theory typically held no weight when it concerned Keane's former team Manchester United and their home games. "It's simply untrue. Especially at Old Trafford when you get 15 men around the referee. He's going to bottle it." The pair were comedy gold on ITV all afternoon. https://twitter.com/RealKevinPalmer/status/1010181763283542016 More entertaining than most Ireland games anyway...
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