Roy Keane has turned his fire on Jose Mourinho, calling the Chelsea manager a disgrace.
Keane, speaking at the launch of his autobiography, repeated his attacks on former boss Sir Alex Ferguson and one-time Manchester City rival Alf-Inge Haaland.
But the 43-year-old widened his attacks to include Mourinho, who upset him and Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert at Stamford Bridge two weeks ago by trying to shake hands before Chelsea’s 3-0 victory was even finished.
Keane, Lambert’s assistant at Villa Park, said: ‘The game was still going on. It’s disgraceful. I’ve seen him doing it to other managers, it is a disgrace.
‘You wouldn’t do that on a Sunday morning, you would get knocked out.’
Speaking in Dublin on Thursday, Keane continued his war of words with former Manchester United manager Ferguson, who said of his long-serving captain ‘his tongue is the hardest part of his body’ in his own book last year. Keane said: ‘I can kick pretty hard. I think it was a cheap dig.
‘He was never critical when we were winning trophies and he was getting his new contracts and his ‘‘Sir’’. For Alex Ferguson, not just to criticise myself, but other players who were part of a team that brought some good days, is wrong.
‘For him to criticise that when you think of what he made out of it — he made millions of pounds out of it... He got his statues, he’s got his stand named after him — to come back and criticise was just ridiculous.
‘Will I ever forgive him? I don’t know. We’ll see if we ever cross paths again.’
Keane also revealed that he and Ferguson didn’t even have a close relationship in the days before they fell out at United in 2005. ‘If people think I was in his office every week having little chats, they’re sadly mistaken,’ he added. ‘I reckon there was five, six situations in my 12-and-a-bit years at United that I was actually having a one-to-one with him.’
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