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Rio Ferdinand On How Wes Brown Narrowly Escaped Christmas Party Fight With Roy Keane

Rio Ferdinand On How Wes Brown Narrowly Escaped Christmas Party Fight With Roy Keane
Lee Costello
By Lee Costello Updated
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Roy Keane has had his fair share of Christmas Party tales at Man United, and he hasn't been shy about telling them.

However, the Irishman gave up drinking later in his career and was the ultimate professional to try and prolong his time as a top-flight footballer.

But even when he wasn't drinking, Christmas parties still seemed to get him in sticky situations, although this time, it was because of his former teammate Wes Brown.

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"Wes Brown got carried out at midnight, or just before midnight. We were doing all day at a Christmas do and he got carried out. I'll never forget [it].

"Wes was a funny drinker. I remember Roy Keane stopped drinking and we were out somewhere in Manchester and Wes kept trying to feed Roy a drink.

"You know Roy, he was like 'one more and I am going to put that over your head in a minute', that type of thing. Wes had to get told to move out the way.

"That's the problem with footballers and alcohol, it always goes wrong." 

Of course, Keane has gotten into trouble before when it came to United's Christmas parties, as he explained previously on The Overlap podcast.

"I got banned from the Christmas party one year. I must’ve been injured, and the reserve team were having a night out and I went out with them and I think there was a bit of bother in Manchester.

"The first team lads were going out a couple days later and Sir Alex Ferguson came in, in front of everyone, and said that if anyone was seen drinking with me that day, they would get fined.

"The players were worried about getting fined by the manager, so I ended up going out by myself - I had a Christmas party by myself."

Hopefully The Overlap's Christmas Do wasn't as eventful for the former Red Devil's captain.

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