'There's a time and a place...': McIlroy on the day Roy Keane said no to his autograph request
Stick to Football podcast with Rory McIlroy
They're the best of friends now but it took a while for 12-year-old Rory McIlroy to forget the time Roy Keane turned him down for an autograph.
Speaking on the Stick to Football podcast, the five-time major winner told the tale of the time he met the Irish football squad in the Portmarnock Links Hotel and he approached his idol Keane for an autograph.
"I saw one of my Man United heroes in the lobby, Roy Keane, and I went over and asked him for an autograph. He was sitting down and he looked up at me and goes 'not today kid', McIlroy told the show, as Keane squirmed next to me in the studio!
"It's fine, you looked busy," joked Rory.
"Was I in the zone, were we going training?" said Keane as he mounted a futile defence. "The only thing I remember about that hotel was that there were always kids...and here's another one!"
Keane was a big hero of big Man Utd fan McIlroy, and reassured Keane: "It's alright it didn't make an impression on me at all", as he added: "There's a time and a place for people to approach and for someone who's well known it can get frustrating at times."
Keane smiled: "I suppose a lot of it depends where you are mentally, I feel bad if that's 100% true, I must have been...can we move on?! Is this the whole podcast?"
Added McIlroy, on a serious note: "It used be autographs, now it's selfies, and there's a time and a place for people to approach you. You could be with your family, having dinner. You can get frusrated at times, but you can literally make someone's day twenty times a day."
Watch the full show here, where McIlroy also discusses the ongoing civil war in golf between the PGA Tour and LIV:
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