‘I was petrified of him’: Mark Clattenburg describes his first run-in with Roy Keane

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Mark Clattenburg has described his first run-in with Roy Keane and it’s what you might expect of the former Man United captain, writes Stephen Barry.

The Durham referee was elevated to the English top-tier by the age of 29 but admits he had needed extra time in the lower leagues to prevent himself being “bullied and manipulated”.