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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-26T21:30:59.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.gbnews.com",
  "tags": [
    "Rafael Nadal shows off disfigured foot for the first time after years of tennis took a toll",
    "Luke Littler receives warning about his conduct ahead of Premier League Finals Night",
    "Jamie Vardy to leave Italy with EFL club eager to secure summer transfer",
    "The GB News Editorial Charter"
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nWith the Premier League season now over, Manchester United fans would have expected some calm and order. After all, having finished third behind only Arsenal and Manchester City, the good days seem to be on their way back to Old Trafford once again.\n\nBut things haven't quite played out that way. With the season just 48 hours old, their best player is now at odds with arguably their best-ever captain.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe brewing storm between Bruno Fernandes and Roy Keane has reached a toxic boiling point.\n\nFresh from breaking the Premier League single-season assist record with a staggering 21 assists in the 2025–26 campaign, Fernandes has come out firing. He has publicly called out Keane, accusing the iron-fisted pundit of spinning outright \"lies.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\nThe row erupted after Keane went on a trademark, eye-rolling tirade on The Overlap podcast, misquoting Fernandes' post-match interview after matching the assist record against Nottingham Forest.\n\nKeane claimed the Portuguese midfielder was selfishly chasing individual glory over team wins.\n\nBut a furious Fernandes struck back on The Diary of a CEO podcast, snapping: \"What I don't like is when people lie about things... basically, what he said is a lie.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe current skipper was so incensed he even begged former manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer for Keane’s phone number to confront him.\n\nKeane's response since has been via a snide Instagram post doubling down on the criticism. With both men A-listers, the storm appears to be just getting started.\n\nBut how did it get to this? GB News now takes a look at how Keane's ruthless style of punditry has upset those inside Old Trafford, nearly 21 years on from his bitter, brutal exit from the club as a player under Sir Alex Ferguson.\n\n### The unviewable interview\n\n\n\n\nIn October 2005, a sidelined Keane watched in horror as United capitulated in a humiliating 4-1 thrashing by Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium.\n\nWhat followed was an MUTV appearance titled \"Roy Keane plays the pundit\" that effectively signed his death warrant at the club.\nKeane tore into his own dressing room with no mercy. He told new signing Edwin van der Sar to \"shut the f**k up,\" slammed John\n\nO'Shea for \"wandering around,\" and dismissed Scottish midfielder Darren Fletcher, barking: \"I can't understand why people in Scotland rave about Darren Fletcher.\"\n\nRio Ferdinand and Kieran Richardson were also slaughtered.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nFerguson was apoplectic. The video was banned, copies were ordered to be destroyed, and an explosive training-ground shouting match ensued.\n\nKeane clashed furiously with assistant Carlos Queiroz before turning on Ferguson himself, snarling: \"We need f***ing more from you, gaffer. We're slipping behind other teams.\"\n\nWeeks later, on November 18, 2005, Keane's 12-and-a-half-year spell was terminated by mutual consent.\n\nHe left under a toxic cloud, and his relationship with Ferguson and the club hierarchy has never recovered.\n\n### LATEST SPORTS NEWS:\n\n\n\n\n  * Rafael Nadal shows off disfigured foot for the first time after years of tennis took a toll\n  * Luke Littler receives warning about his conduct ahead of Premier League Finals Night\n  * Jamie Vardy to leave Italy with EFL club eager to secure summer transfer\n\n\n\n### United squad tired of attacks\n\n\n\n\nOver the last two decades, Keane’s transition from ferocious captain to television analyst has only deepened the divide between himself and the modern United squad.\n\nPlayers have grown profoundly tired of his personal, sometimes venomous, attacks.\n\nTake Harry Maguire. In 2021, after Maguire scored for England against Albania and celebrated by cupping his ears to critics, Keane exploded on ITV, branding the celebration \"embarrassing\" and a \"disgrace to Man United.\"\n\nThe relentless mocking prompted a fierce backlash from the Irishman, with supporters adamant he was being too harsh.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe onslaught was so severe that even Keane eventually realised he had overstepped the mark.\n\nIn June 2024, Keane admitted: \"I definitely crossed the line with Maguire. I kind of mocked him a little bit and that is definitely out of order... I apologised to him.\"\n\nThen came the savage takedown of Luke Shaw in September last year.\n\nFollowing a 3-0 Manchester derby defeat, Keane claimed Shaw had \"been getting away with murder for years at United,\" blasting his fitness record and alleging he \"just gave up\" on the pitch.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nWhile a classy Shaw later took it on the chin, admitting to reporters that the critique \"hurt\" but was ultimately justified, it highlighted a growing feeling inside Carrington:\n\nThat Keane's words frequently cross the boundary, like he was known to do as a player.\n\n### Carrick criticism\n\n\n\n\nIt isn't just the playing squad that has felt Keane’s wrath.\n\nWhen Michael Carrick took interim charge of United following Ruben Amorim's departure in January, Keane brutally dismissed his credentials.\n\nSpeaking on The Overlap, Keane claimed Carrick fundamentally lacked the elite pedigree required for the permanent post, barking: \"He hasn't got enough experience. I don't think he'll have enough football knowledge.\"\n\nFor many, however, his comments felt less like objective analysis and more like the resurrection of a decades-old grudge.\n\nCarrick, after all, was the man signed to inherit Keane's iconic number 16 shirt immediately after his explosive 2005 exit.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nKeane's critiques went from professional to intensely personal when he bizarrely dragged Carrick's family into the fray.\n\nTaking a petty swipe at Carrick's wife, Lisa, Keane scoffed: \"His wife can always come in [to help], because she's got a bit of a big mouth sometimes. She's probably doing the team talk.\n\n\"The toxic jab dates all the way back to 2014, when Keane slammed a \"flat\" post-match interview from Carrick, prompting Lisa to hit back on social media calling Keane a choice expletive who \"says anything to get a reaction.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nCarrick, who has since landed the United job on a permanent basis after a stunning time as interim, wisely opted to shrug it aside.\n\nIt did not, however, sit too well with the higher-ups behind the scenes at Old Trafford.\n\n### Captain vs captain war set to go on\n\n\n\n\nThe current war with Fernandes proves that the ghost of 2005 still stalks the corridors of Old Trafford.\n\nKeane demands unflinching perfection, the kind he brought to the pitch during the treble-winning era.\n\nBut modern stars feel he is, essentially, a man out of time. By branding Keane a liar, Fernandes has done what few modern players dare to do by standing up to him.\n\nBridges that were burnt to cinders in 2005 are being set ablaze all over again.\n\nWhether Fernandes can now fire United to the biggest titles on offer, and defy his biggest critic, remains to be seen.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "How Roy Keane burnt his bridges with Man Utd as Bruno Fernandes storm brews"
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