明らかにする/漏らすd, the inside story of why Roy Keane is STILL going after the Haaland family 23 years after that 悪名高い horror 取り組む on Erling's father … and why his paymasters at Sky couldn't be happier the 反目,不和 lives on

出発s at Manchester Airport, summer 2001. Alfie Haaland is on his way to Ohio, where a specialist を待つs at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic to 成し遂げる 外科 on a 膝 (民事の)告訴.

A member of the public mutters something in his direction. It's football-関係のある and 推定では has something to do with the 最近の Manchester derby at Old Trafford.

The Manchester City captain turns. 'Yeah, I'll just get Roy Keane's studs out of my 膝,' he says, still sore from the 強襲,強姦 (打撃,刑罰などを)与えるd by his Manchester 部隊d 相当するもの in late April.


The 外科 keeps him out for six months. 失敗 to 回復する fully from it 効果的に ends his career, Haaland playing just 48 minutes professionally across four 代用品,人 外見s before calling time.

Now Keane's ugly 肺, a straight 脚 spearing into the Norwegian and sending him cartwheeling, does not 施行する 退職 on its own. It 害(を与える)s Haaland's 権利 膝 and in Ohio, they operate on the left. A 膝 is 扶養家族 on the other one though and Keane hasn't helped 事柄s. Haaland later puts having to hang up his boots months after that horror 取り組む 負かす/撃墜する to 'a 広大な/多数の/重要な coincidence', said with a large dollop of irony.

Erling Haaland (left) and his father, Alfie (right) have long been involved in a feud with Roy Keane

Erling Haaland (left) and his father, Alfie (権利) have long been 伴う/関わるd in a 反目,不和 with Roy Keane

Keane (pictured) has slated Erling in recent weeks, branding him 'a spoilt brat' and a 'League Two player'

Keane (pictured) has 予定するd Erling in 最近の weeks, branding him 'a spoilt brat' and a 'League Two player'

Haaland, meanwhile, hit back, saying he 'doesn't really care much about that man' when asked on the comments

Haaland, 一方/合間, 攻撃する,衝突する 支援する, 説 he 'doesn't really care much about that man' when asked on the comments

Keane's callous challenge halfway up Haaland's 脚 is 天罰 after four years of festering 怒り/怒る at the way the City man 反応するd to the 部隊d midfielder's own ACL 損失 in 1997. 'Take that, you ****,' Keane wrote of the 取り組む on Haaland in his incendiary autobiography.

A four-year 反目,不和 at that point. More than long enough. But in this story, we are now 27 times around the sun. And the child born nine months before that balmy afternoon in Stretford, when the Keane もや descends and to hell with the 難破, is bang in the middle of it all.

March, 2024. City 0-0 兵器庫. Erling Haaland ? the 首相 League's 最高の,を越す scorer, the best striker in the world ? is 二塁打-示すd by William Saliba and Gabriel for 90 minutes. He is afforded just 23 touches all afternoon, 登録(する)ing four 発射s.

A 淡褐色 game. 兵器庫 sit in for a point, one they hope will インチ them closer to a first 肩書を与える in two 10年間s. In the Sky Sports studio up in a corner of the Etihad Stadium, one particular 空気/公表する kick of Haaland's at the 支援する 地位,任命する is discussed. と一緒に Micah Richards and Theo Walcott, Keane ? the 中立の 選ぶ on the punditry パネル盤 - sits and 配達するs his 判決.

Just like in 2001, his 注目する,もくろむs are not on the ball. Instead, fixated 単独で on the man. 'The level of his (Haaland's) general play is so poor,' Keane says, 緩和 支援する in his 議長,司会を務める. 'Not just today. His laying stuff off, headers, whatever it might be - is so poor.

'ーに関して/ーの点でs of in 前線 of goal, he's the best in the world. But his general play is so poor. He's almost like a League Two player. That's how I look at him. His general play has to 改善する and it will do.'

Rightly or wrongly, other former professionals ? some of them の中で the very best ? 申し込む/申し出 類似の about Haaland Jnr's general build-up play and pundits in the game 持続する there is 長所 to what Keane says. There is an 受託 from the striker himself that he can 改善する and there have been 調印するs this season that he is making strong strides in that area of his game. In the days after Keane's 爆発性の 発言/述べるs, Pep Guardiola 賞賛するd his No 9's ability to 占領する two centre halves against 兵器庫 in a way tha t せねばならない have opened space for those behind him.

The belief by pundits though is that Haaland seems way short of his best. But there is a 重要な difference between Keane and the 残り/休憩(する). 非,不,無 of other pundits, even 個人として, go as far as the 'League Two' description. 負担d in a way that had somebody with knowledge of the 状況/情勢 joking that he'll still be 選ぶing arguments with Alfie's grandchildren if that 適切な時期 ever arises. Even if it isn't, it all feels and looks a bit personal. 'There is that needle,' one source says.

When Keane and Alfie were playing, they clashed twice, with Keane looking for apparent revenge on the Norwegian

When Keane and Alfie were playing, they 衝突/不一致d twice, with Keane looking for 明らかな 復讐 on the Norwegian

Years later, the rivalry between the Haalands and Keane was reignited when Keane slammed Erling after his performance against Arsenal

Years later, the 競争 between the Haalands and Keane was reignited when Keane slammed Erling after his 業績/成果 against 兵器庫

Keane had said after the game:?'In terms of in front of goal, he's the best in the world. But his general play is so poor. He's almost like a League Two player'

Keane had said after the game:?'ーに関して/ーの点でs of in 前線 of goal, he's the best in the world. But his general play is so poor. He's almost like a League Two player'

Yet those who know Keane, the affable character off camera to his Machiavellian persona when the lights are on, 主張する all this is for the show, that he 耐えるs no grudge or ill-feeling.

'He's a pantomime villain - that's the 役割 割り当てるd to him,' another source says. 'What Keane was alluding to was how he can use his 団体/死体 better. The whole League Two thing was said for 影響 but he has no problem with the Haaland family at all. He says a lot of things for 影響 without meaning it. Can you imagine him doing an advert dressed as a clown 10 years ago? Never. Now he knows 正確に/まさに what he is doing.'

This all helps Sky. All over the newspapers, websites, social マスコミ. Keane's 'done his 職業', a 乾燥した,日照りの line he often likes to trot out about footballers. Guardiola has to 答える/応じる so the story runs for a day or two.

Last 週末, Erling himself was the one 取調べ/厳しく尋問するd about it. Viaplay, the Norwegian 放送者, put the League Two stuff to him. It had, after all, 支配するd the news cycle 支援する home in much the same way as here. 'I don't really care that much about that man, so that's all 権利,' he answered pointedly. It had definitely rankled, although the Haaland (軍の)野営地,陣営 have chosen to 公然と laugh rather than rise. 'Keane is a 引用する machine,' one source says. 'Erling doesn't think much about this stuff. He forgot the question as soon as he walked out.'

It continued. Erling's reaction after a substitution during the 5-1 週末 勝利,勝つ over Wolves, when he helped himself to four in reaching 25 league goals for the season, saw him in Keane's crosshairs once more.

Live from Anfield on Sunday, 24 hours on. Erling behaved like a 'spoilt brat' when he (機の)カム off, Keane inferring dissent に向かって his 経営者/支配人 in a way a parent might を煩う an unruly 十代の少年少女. In the minutes before his substitution, Erling had visibly become 失望させるd with the 審判(をする)ing. His chuntering carried on, with Guardiola and then into the dugout.

'Roy Keane - 52 years of age - has finally 設立する an enemy after his 退職,' 地位,任命するd Jan Aage Fjortoft, the 放送者 and ex-Norway striker. 'Erling Haaland ? 23 years of age.' Haaland Snr sent a laughing emoji 支援する. The most inflamed the father has become about the 状況/情勢 is when 示唆するing an '協議事項'.

Keane has been called a 'fool' inside the Haaland (軍の)野営地,陣営, 'bitter' that Erling has taken the world by 嵐/襲撃する. 'The problem now is that it will keep going because Roy will never 支援する 負かす/撃墜する from anyone,' a source says. 'You've got two high-profile people now not wanting to 支援する 負かす/撃墜する. People say it's petty but it's not coming fro m a place of hate or malice, it's just nobody blinking first.'

Keane had targeted Alfie from when he did his own ACL with the then-Leeds man towering over him

Keane had 的d Alfie from when he did his own ACL with the then-物陰/風下d man 非常に高い over him

In his latest outburst, he branded Erling 'a spoilt brat' for his reaction to being substituted against Wolves

In his 最新の 爆発, he branded Erling 'a spoilt brat' for his reaction to 存在 代用品,人d against Wolves

On the surface it is all fai rly 害のない these days. Haaland Jnr is never going to stop 得点する/非難する/20ing goals and is big and cleverer enough not to 許す barbs to unsettle him. Keane and Haaland Snr are never going to be mates, bumping into each other at a gig in 2003 and now 定期的に seen in the same areas of stadiums ahead of 首相 League matches. No words are 交流d. Play on.

Neither 味方する, によれば さまざまな sources ? all of whom prefer not to speak on 記録,記録的な/記録する, which tells something in itself ? 絶対 obsess about the other. But it couldn't really have got any worse in the wake of Keane's 2002 autobiography.?

'I'd waited long enough,' he wrote on the 膝-high 取り組む that 誘発するd a fracas in the Old Trafford tunnel but not on the pitch. 'I f** *ing 攻撃する,衝突する him hard. The ball was there (I think). Take that you ****. And don't ever stand over me sneering about 偽の 傷害s.'

Alfie was no angel in midfield either, 肉体的に and 口頭で. Erling winces when shown his old man's brutish 取り組むs. And Keane had not forgotten the way in which Alfie told him to 'get up' at Elland Road in 1997. Keane had 試みる/企てるd to trip the 物陰/風下d man, an 活動/戦闘 that saw him 決裂 his own ACL. 'He was stood over me when I did my cruciate, a bad 傷害,' Keane said recently. 'He was 説 some 汚い things and I just thought, "we'll 会合,会う again".'

Four years went by. They 直面するd each other without major 出来事/事件. Then that moment. A three-game 禁止(する) and a 罰金 of two weeks' 給料 for Keane. City 経営者/支配人 Joe Royle (人命などを)奪う,主張するd Alfie was fortunate that his 脚 was already 空輸の, さもなければ 'we'd probably still be looking for it'.

'It was 復讐,' says a City source. 'We got a late equaliser [through Steve Howey] so we were やめる happy. Old Trafford was a 要塞 and we were struggling at the time. I remember someone from 部隊d coming into our dressing room trying to get Alfie to 調印する something, as if to say that he wouldn't take it any その上の. They 明白に knew how serious an 出来事/事件 it was.

'Alfie was in a lot of 不快 afterwards. I don't know how many games Roy would get for that now. You'd be 運ぶ/漁獲高d in 前線 of the FA.'

Only when the autobiography dropped did the 罰 become truly serious. A five-game 禁止(する) and £150,000 罰金, the heaviest 財政上の 許可/制裁 the FA had ever 手渡すd out. Keane's 不品行/姦通, tantamount to an admission of deliberately 負傷させるing a fellow professional in a premeditated 行為/法令/行動する of spite, was said to have been 悪化させるd by the 概算の £2million he earned from 調書をとる/予約する sales. The tell-all on Haaland was the headline-grabber and 転換d copies. In a later autobiography, published in 201 4, Keane 明らかにするd his 見解/翻訳/版.

'[He] p****ed me off, 狙撃 his mouth off,' he wrote. 'He was an 絶対の p**** to play against. Niggling, sneaky. I did want to nail him and let him know what was happening. I 手配中の,お尋ね者 to 傷つける him and stand over him. I don't 悔いる that. But I had no wish to 負傷させる him.'

David Elleray shows Keane red and Paul Dickov shook his 手渡す as he 嵐/襲撃するd to 乱用 Alfie, stricken on the 床に打ち倒す. There had been irritation around City that 非,不,無 of their 味方する piled into Keane, only Paulo Wanchope and Jeff Whitley appearing remotely 悩ますd. Sources (人命などを)奪う,主張する that awe stopped Richard Dunne and 示す Kennedy 直面するing their 共和国 of Ireland team-mate. For so long, Keane was an untouchable 軍隊.

That Alfie started a friendly for Norway against Bulgaria four days later remains puzzling and can only have 与える/捧げるd to the 損失 in his left 膝. The beginning of the end, anyway, and in August 2008 ? during an interview with Mail Sport about the 出来事/事件 ? Alfie didn't once について言及する Keane by 指名する. He did, however, 発言/述べる on Sunderland, whom his old 敵 managed.

Erling is no fan of Keane's former side United, though could have joined them in the past

Erling is no fan of Keane's forme r 味方する 部隊d, though could have joined them in the past

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, friend of both Alfie and Keane and instrumental in Erling's development, had twice recommended United sign the City star

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, friend of both Alfie and Keane and instrumental in Erling's 開発, had twice recommended 部隊d 調印する the City 星/主役にする

'井戸/弁護士席, they just stayed up last season, didn't they?' he said. 'I would 推定する/予想する that a big club like Sunderland would 推定する/予想する better than that.' Keane 辞職するd in 早期に December with the 黒人/ボイコット Cats in the relegation zone.

非,不,無 of the Haalands would 収容する/認める to 静かな satisfaction at that turn of events but some feel Erling ramming home his point is now poetic. Erling is no fan of 部隊d and looked pretty pleased when (警官の)巡回区域,受持ち区域ing Andre Onana from the 位置/汚点/見つけ出す to silence taunts of 'Keano, Keano' from the Stretford End in October.

That all makes the Haaland 関係 with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ? an ex-international 同僚 of Alfie and instrumental in Erling's 開発 at Molde ? so fascinating. Solskjaer had twice recommended 部隊d 調印する him: once before he joined Red Bull Salzburg from Molde and then w 女/おっせかい屋 Borussia Dortmund (機の)カム calling. The club never went for it.

One wonders whether this all might have been different with Keane had Erling been wearing red instead of blue these days.