Gary Pallister: Roy Keane and I fell out for a year at Manchester United

He was ‘Pally’ by name but, where Roy Keane was concerned, not always pally by nature.

Gary Pallister, the former Manchester United and England centre-half, has revealed how, after a falling-out on a pre-season tour, he and Roy Keane didn’t speak to each other for the whole of the former’s final season at Old Trafford in 1997/98 — when United finished second to Arsenal in the Premier League — the pair only finally making their peace on Pallister’s very last day at the club.

“We didn’t speak for the last year that I was at United,” Pallister said, speaking at a Ford Summer Sales event in Dublin yesterday.