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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.