Roy Keane’s ghost looms over new Man United treble documentary

Keane’s absence is striking if not surprising.

ROY KEANE'S GHOST: Amazon’s ’99 is a three-part series that is associated with the same Studio 99. It involves all the usual personalities. Beckham, Ryan Giggs, the Nevilles, Paul Scholes, Denis Irwin, Dwight Yorke, Steve McClaren and Alex Ferguson are among the 26 different contributors. Roy Keane is not.

The Manchester United industry is dependent on the ability to mythologise. It’s all they have left. Duly, the one man reluctant to engage in such an exercise is absent from the latest article from this relentless production line.

Following on from Netflix’s David Beckham documentary comes Amazon’s ’99. A three-part series that is associated with the same Studio 99. It involves all the usual personalities. Beckham, Ryan Giggs, the Nevilles, Paul Scholes, Denis Irwin, Dwight Yorke, Steve McClaren and Alex Ferguson are among the 26 different contributors. Roy Keane is not.