How Roy Keane made Liverpool star sell his supercar

The Sir Alex Ferguson Era at Manchester United saw no shortage of characters both in and around the club, from Eric Cantona’s theatrics to David Beckham’s flash and glam.

Yet, for many, no player could be compared to the club’s iconic captain, Roy Keane. With his vicious temper and stern reputation, Keane was the embodiment of the archetypal ‘hard man’ footballer of the early Premier League Era.

Keane has been immortalised in the pantheon of United legends for incidents such as his tunnel bust-up with Arsenal’s Patrick Viera and his infamous tackle on Manchester City’s Alf Inge Haaland.

The United captain took no prisoners on or off the pitch, and a former Liverpool forward has recently come out with a story to support this statement.

Keane’s victim in this scenario? An Aston Martin sports car. Its owner? Former Liverpool forward Peter Crouch.

On his podcast, The Therapy Crouch, which Crouch hosts with his wife Abbey Clancy, the former Liverpool man recounted: “I bought an Aston Martin when I was kind of playing for Liverpool. I got in the England squad and I thought, yeah I have made it, I’ll get an Aston Martin, I deserve it. But I knew I looked like a t**t in it. And then I was driving around, I remember seeing Roy Keane at the lights”

“He just gave me a look of like what a d*******. I had my arm out, bins on, listening to some garage. And he just looked at me like a piece of s**t. And I literally, with that look sold the car that week”

Crouch went on to add: “He didn’t even give me a wave or a nod of appreciation or anything, he just drove off. I looked at myself in the mirror and thought, ‘No, you’ve lost the plot here’. I sold the car that week and must have taken a £25k hit on it.”

This story will come as little surprise to United fans who are more than familiar with Keane’s stern ways. However, this does only emphasise the former captain’s formidable presence and his effect on players both on and off the pitch.