Peter Schmeichel gets 'irritated' when 'irrelevant' Roy Keane scrap is mentioned

The legendary goalkeeper is uncomfortable when his infamous row with Roy Keane is brought up.

Peter Schmeichel gets annoyed when his infamous fight with Roy Keane gets brought up.

The duo were not exactly close friends during their time as teammates at Manchester United in the 1990s, with Schmeichel's reluctance to hand back the captaincy following Roy Keane's return from injury often cited as the reason for their cold relationship.

The pair even came to blows once on a pre-season tour in Hong Kong, with both men forced to do a press conference the next day, each hiding their battle wounds from the media.

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Keane and Schmeichel's relationship is much better these days, and the former goalkeeper appeared alongside Keane on the latest episode of Stick to Football brought to you by Sky Bet, where, inevitably, their past problems were touched upon.

"You can take any footballer who has been in situations like that, and I don’t see that as important. It irritates me that things like that are brought up sometimes because it’s so irrelevant.

"It goes back to the same thing. We were those kinds of people back then and would do anything to win. It kept you in a certain mentality. Then you start playing and you become like that. There’s no way I can be like this now, it’s too much energy.

“We were in Tokyo the next day and I had to do a press conference, and it was funny. I had a little scar, and the media asked where I got that from. Roy [Keane] hurt me. They thought I was taking the piss, but it was just funny that we had to do that the next day.”

In his second autobiography, Keane detailed the row with Schmeichel:

"I think we were in Hong Kong... There was drink involved. Myself and Nicky Butt had a night out and we bumped into Peter at the hotel reception desk. It was about two in the morning. We said a few words to one another, a bit of banter, a bit of stick. I went up to Nicky's room for some room service, had a sandwich, got up to go... Peter was waiting for me, outside the room.

"He said; 'I've had enough of you. It's time we sorted this out'. So I said; 'Okay'. And we had a fight. It felt like 10 minutes. There was a lot of noise. Peter's a big lad."

*Roy Keane was speaking on the Stick to Football podcast, brought to you by Sky Bet

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