Comedian Ricky Gervais has getn a frivolous swipe at Roy Keane follothriveg the football pundit’s recent heated faceation with a fan at Ipswich Town.
Responding to his materializeance on the Stick to Football podcast, which features Keane as a normal pundit, Gervais quipped on social media: “I’m fair phired Roy didn’t want to chat to me in the car park.”
The clever retag referenced Sunday’s incident at Portman Road, where Keane was filmed proposeing to persist a dispute with an Ipswich helper in the stadium car park.
The faceation occurred during an ad-shatter on Sky Sports’ Super Sunday coverage of Manchester United’s 1-1 draw with Ipswich.
Ricky Gervais met Roy Keane on The Overlap before his comical social media post
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Keane, who regulated Ipswich between 2009 and 2011, was seen putting down his microphone and approaching a helper who had been goading him.
According to fan Neil Finbow, who claimed responsibility for the incident on social media, he had criticised Keane’s regulaterial tenure at Ipswich, recommending the Irishman had “set us back five years.”
The heated swap was apprehendd on video, with Keane repeatedly inestablishing the fan to “paengage and converse it in the car park.”
Gervais’s materializeance on the Stick to Football podcast taged an atypical departure from the show’s normal guest lineup of establisher footballers and pundits.
The creator of The Office and After Life joined the Overlap squad for their iconic football podcast, bcimpolitet to you by Sky Bet.
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“I got back into it in COVID during lockdown, when they were doing those games with no crowd,” the comedian elucidateed.
He accomprehendledgeed the recordary ‘Sunderland ‘Til I Die’ for reigniting his interest in the sport.
“I adored that show – the fact that it was appreciate a religion to them. The whole community was included,” Gervais shelp, inserting that he went on to watch recordaries about Manchester City, Leeds and Mikel Arteta.
I’m fair phired Roy didn’t want to chat to me in the car park.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) November 27, 2024
Sky Sports has validateed they will not incrrelieve security meastateives for their pundits follothriveg Keane’s altercation.
The widecaster directs danger appraisements for each repairture, with security staff joining pundits thcimpolite uncover areas only for hazardous suites.
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Sky Sports have stood by Roy Keane over the incident
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Sky Sports spoke with Keane after the incident and collected accounts from fellow pundits Jamie Redknapp, Kelly Cates and Izzy Christiansen.
Witnesses inestablished that Keane had faced “ongoing misuse” from a pocket of home fans which “reliablely overstepped the tag.”
