Twenty-five years ago, a torn cruciate ligament could still have been a career-ender.
But when Roy Keane sat in the waiting room of a private hospital in Whalley Range on this date in 1997, it produced one of the base ingredients to the greatest season in English club football history.
Dave Fevre, Manchester United ’s physio at the time had chaperoned Keane to the hospital from Elland Road. They sat watching Celebrity Squares on TV when Keane turned and said “What the f*** is wrong with me knee?” Fevre responded with the bleak prognosis, perhaps expecting Keane to react angrily. Instead the Irishman’s response was as simple as could be. “Well, let’s get on with it then.”
