“He killed me for four months.”
Roy Keane only really had one major problem when it came to his former teammate Ruud van Nistelrooy and it’s everything you would expect from him.
The Dutchman was sensational for United, scoring a bucket load of goals every season that he was at Old Trafford and the fans adored him.
His teammates loved having him as well because ultimately he helped them win games, and you don’t play for Alex Ferguson if winning isn’t everything that you want.
However, he had been known to rub a few players up the wrong way, especially because of his insatiable hunger for goals.
Sometimes the striker would be labelled as ‘greedy’ and there were occasions when his side won the game, but because he didn’t score, he was in a foul mood.
However, with Roy Keane as his captain, that sort of relentless streak was only to be admired by the Irishman, and the only real issue he had with his goal-scoring companion, was more to do with a certain fashion accessory.
“Roy with my hair band, remember that? He killed me for four months”, van Nistelrooy said on The Overlap.
“Remember when I came I had longer hair… and I put it in in training and went to the dressing room with the mirrors and put the hairband in and he was like, ‘F****** hell.
“I’d actually had enough of it and I cut my hair… I thought after one month I wasn’t going to cut my hair for this guy. Two months, every day for two months and then after three months… I took my hair band off.”
Keane famously hated the Arsenal team of that era, and although most of that was down to their intense rivalry at the time, but we are beginning to think that there could have been other motives.
Arsne Wenger’s Gooners were known to wear gloves during the winter, long sleeve jerseys, and sport crazy haircuts. Freddie Ljungberg often changed his hairstyle while the likes of Robert Pires and Emmanuel Petit loved a good hairband.
With that being said Keane had David Beckham as a teammate so he cant really talk.
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