Manchester United captain Roy Keane
Roy Keane
Monday, 12 August 2002.
Further to comments attributed to Roy Keane in the News of The World and The Times on Sunday and Monday respectively regarding an incident with Manchester City's Alf Inge Haaland, The FA's position is:
"These comments have been used in newspaper serialisations of Roy Keane's forthcoming autobiography. Having read the comments we would like to see the book in its full context before making any decision."
"However we clearly would never expect any one individual to set out to physically hurt an opponent at any level of the game."