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Matthew Cooper

Roy Keane tells remarkable story about being caught in strip club during Man Utd tour

Manchester United legend Roy Keane has recalled the time he was caught in a strip club while on a pre-season tour in Chicago.

Keane has been travelling the country with fellow pundits Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher as part of 'The Overlap on Tour' and when asked to recall the best story from a night out that he had never told, the former United skipper left both his colleagues and the crowd in absolute stitches with his tale.

Speaking on The Overlap's visit to Manchester, Keane revealed: "We had a good night out in pre-season with Man United in Chicago one night that was pretty mad. We had a night out, we took a couple young players, pre-season, we were definitely in Chicago, I remember that.

"Woke up the next morning, Denis [Irwin] is waking me up. We're kind of trying to get down for the bus where we were travelling. I looked and all my face was black, just black. I couldn’t work out what happened. I went: 'Jesus.'

"Trying to get my gear on. I get on the bus, it's all coming back to me. I'm sitting at the back of the bus, we're travelling, obviously towards the airport. Our press officer sends us a story about some of the Man United players being in a strip club, Chicago.

"So I'm down the back, I said: 'Don't worry about it. They've got no proof. No proof. Everyone relax. I've got it under control. I'm obviously the captain, you're fine with me.' Five minutes [later], the phone goes again.

"Apparently, they've got proof. I said: 'What have they got? What have they got?' They said: 'They've got your fingerprints.' He also said: 'They have your credit card details. Your passport details.'

"And I said: 'Is that all they've got on me?' So the bus erupted. They've done a story obviously in-depth and obviously when I went in I gave my fingerprints during the night and then I was just rubbing my face as the night was going on.

"That's all I was rubbing. I was just rubbing my face. I think they ran the story and the headline in some of the Irish papers was something like 'Horny Devils' or something."

At the same event in Manchester, Carragher was on the receiving end of some playful abuse after wearing a t-shirt mocking Manchester United's 7-0 thrashing at the hands of rivals Liverpool last season, which included the selfie he took of himself and Neville at Anfield when the hosts scored their fifth goal.

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