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Darragh Culhane

Ben Foster tells hilarious story of getting shouted at by Roy Keane in first match with Manchester United

Ben Foster has recounted the story of the first time both him and Roy Keane played in a match together.

Foster joined Manchester United back in 2005 and was a teammate alongside Keane before the Irishman departed the club.

Keane would finish up with the Red Devils that year after a falling out with Alex Ferguson but did cross paths with Foster before his departure.

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Speaking on TalkSport, Foster said: “I remember when I first signed for Man United and Roy Keane was still there and he would scare the life out of me.

“He would just say whatever is in his mind and it would put everybody on the back foot so you don’t even know how to talk to him.

“He would say it as it was so bluntly and so honestly that you’d just think, ‘Oh my god, you can’t say that’ and he’d just say it out loud in the changing room full of grown men."

And Foster remembered the time he was shouted at by Keane during a game.

“I was only there with him a couple of weeks and it was when I’d first signed so I was sat there open-eyed, thinking ‘wow, this is incredible’.

Roy Keane (Getty Images)

“He would scare me so badly. Just speaking to him, I was like ‘hello, Mr Keane’ – I swear on my life I was like that because he would frighten you.

“I played one game with Roy Keane and it was a reserve team game because he was going through the motions of leaving Manchester United and he had fallen out with the manager at this point.

“Within five minutes of my very first match for Man United I rolled the ball out to him and because it wasn’t rolled at the right speed, he turned around, put his foot on the ball and shouted at me."

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