Though he’s built a reputation for his sternness, Man United legend Roy Keane left his podcast co-hosts in stitches after telling a risque joke on a recent episode.
The former Red Devils captain – along with Ian Wright, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes – was discussing a recent charity match with Jill Scott when he cracked the joke.
Scott speaking on Stick to Football, brought to you by Sky Bet, said: ‘I was playing a charity game at the weekend and Marlon Harewood absolutely smashed us’.
The likes of Scholes and Wright replied with comments such as ‘He’s a big guy’ and ‘He was a big old thing, old Marlon’ – however Keane opted for a different response.
With a grin on his face, the ex-United star said: ‘And what was the game like?’.
The rest of his co-stars were sent into a hysterics after the comment – which seemingly suggested that Scott had used ‘smashed’ in a different context.
Jill Scott and the Stick to Football podcast crew were left in hysterics after a joke by Roy Keane
Scott had been speaking about an encounter with Marlon Harewood at a charity match
After catching his breath, Arsenal legend Wright then said: ‘Roy, you can’t say that! That’s got to go!’.
However Scott, who also saw the funny side to Keane’s comments, said: ‘Please keep that in!’.
Keane attempted to backtrack on the comment and claim that he was genuinely enquiring about the match though his co-hosts didn’t believe it.
‘Oh, no, what was the game like?’, Keane asked as his co-hosts continued laughing.
Wright then said: ‘It’s such a powerful image! I can’t un-see it’ – which resulted in Neville spitting out his water as he laughed at the joke.
Once Keane eventually discovered the charity match’s scoreline – which was 6-7 – he jokingly replied: ‘6-9!’.
Elsewhere on the podcast, Scholes claimed that fans could be witnessing ‘the beginning of the end’ of Harry Kane after the striker was dropped for England.
Kane, 31, has come under criticism for his displays for the Three Lions this year and it recently resulted in him being left on the bench for their clash against Greece.
Gary Neville spat his water out after the joke, as Ian Wright said it was ‘a powerful image’
Keane attempted to backtrack on the comment while his co-hosts were still laughing over it
Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins was selected ahead of the England captain and many fans felt as though the national side offered a bigger threat with the 28-year-old up top.
Though Kane recently rubbished the idea that the 2026 World Cup will be his last major tournament with England, Man United legend Scholes thinks otherwise.
Speaking in the latest episode of Stick to Football, brought to you by Sky Bet, Scholes said: ‘It felt like the end of Harry Kane [during the international break] – the beginning of the end. He looked out of place in the team.
‘When you get older you feel like everything happens a bit quicker around you and it looked a bit like that. But I don’t know how we’d replace him.’
