adminLONDON. — Roy Keane has claimed Sir Alex Ferguson is still power-hungry — seven months after he retired at Manchester United.
Fergie’s successor at Old Trafford, David Moyes, has admitted he’s got problems all over the pitch. And United legend Keane was set to rock the off-form champions further when he lets rip at his former boss in a no-holds-barred TV documentary which was set to be screened in the UK last night.
The Irishman, who won seven English Premier League titles, four FA Cups and a Champions League winner’s medal in 12 years under Fergie at the Old Trafford giants, insists his old mentor has a “massive ego” based on wielding control and power.
And although he did not accuse Ferguson of undermining Moyes, he has not forgiven United’s godfather for calling him “savage” and “frightening” after he hammered teammates in an interview on the in-house MUTV channel.
Asked if he felt let down by Ferguson, Keane hissed: “No, nothing surprises me with that man.”
Keane, frank even by his outspoken standards, believes Ferguson is finding it hard to relinquish control of an empire he built in 26 years.
On ITV4, Keane says: “The two words the manager spoke to me about, a number of times, were control and power.
“That was how he worked: I think we can still see that now, even though he is not a manager — I don’t think that will ever leave him.
“I think there’s a massive ego involved in that you have power and control over people — and you try to have it even when you are not working with them.”
Revenge is no longer a dish best served cold but delivered in a thousand barbs by a captain spurned.
We always knew Keane would pile into Ferguson after the pair’s falling-out at Old Trafford.
Like one of his eye-watering tackles, it was only a question of how late retribution would arrive.
Whoever you support, there is nothing to celebrate in Keane’s incendiary sound bites as he takes his former manager to task on TV.
Perhaps the saddest commentary on Keane’s feud with British football’s most-decorated manager, for whom he won seven Premier League titles in 12 years, is that he has only started going to watch United again since Ferguson left.
Keane admits he drove away from United’s training ground shedding a few tears — “only for about two minutes” — after Fergie called time on their alliance in November 2005. It was a bitter parting, with Keane’s public slating of team-mates after a shock 4-1 defeat at Middlesbrough in 2005 proving a fault line which became two tectonic plates producing an earthquake. — The Mirror.
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