Ferguson backs Keane

"I don't think Roy has anything to worry about," said Ferguson. "I don't think there's a case to answer.”

"We didn't complain when Haaland made comments about Roy throughout the last two years in the papers. There has been a bit of to-ing and fro-ing between Haaland and Keane in the last three or four years, particularly from Haaland, who has had plenty to say."

So forget the fact that Keane deliberately set out to injure an opponent and almost certainly tried to end his career. The fact that Haaland made comments on the fact Keane injured himself whilst trying to injure Haaland at Leeds is reason enough in both Keane’s and Ferguson’s eyes to commit premeditated assault on the football pitch, Greater Manchester Police are you listening?

Ferguson then went on to argue that United were happy with Keane's forthright autobiography and had even vetted it. "The books are not done with the club's consent but they do peruse it before it goes into the publishers," said the United manager. "The lawyers didn't think there were any problems. It's an honest book."

So both the club and their lawyers now believe that both premeditated assault and then boasting about it is acceptable? It could only happen at the football club that complained about Arsenal’s strong arm tactics last season, you couldn’t make it up.

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