{"id":549990,"date":"2026-07-14T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/549990\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:12:11","slug":"roy-keane-uncomfortable-with-ferguson-query-from-succession-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/549990\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Keane Uncomfortable With Ferguson Query From ‘Succession’ Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over 20 years on from their falling out at Manchester United, it is clear that Roy Keane<\/a> has never quite forgiven Alex Ferguson for the way his career at the club was brought to an abrupt halt.<\/p>\n

The Cork man was unceremoniously dumped from Old Trafford due to his comments about the team after a loss to Middlesborough, which came during an unaired segment on MUTV.<\/p>\n

Keane felt he was unfairly treated at the time and has never spoken to Ferguson<\/a> since. Two decades on, it seems he is least able to have a good laugh at the situation.<\/p>\n

Roy Keane asked about Alex Ferguson by ‘Succession’ star<\/p>\n

Roy Keane was filling his usual punditry role on ITV on Tuesday evening, with a special guest appearing in studio ahead of the World Cup semi-final between France and Spain.<\/p>\n

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Star of Succession Brian Cox was asked about his own interest in football, revealing that he is a big Manchester United fan.<\/p>\n

When Gary Neville compared his character in the HBO show to Alex Ferguson, it drew a very funny reaction from Roy Keane.<\/p>\n

Neville: In Succession you’re a little bit like Sir Alex Ferguson actually!<\/p>\n

Cox: I know Alex.<\/p>\n

Neville: It’s a few of the expletives.<\/p>\n

Cox: Unremitting?<\/p>\n

Keane: You don’t need to tell me that.<\/p>\n

Cox: Well you (Keane) have suffered from his unremittingness I’m sure?<\/p>\n

Keane: I’m saying nothing, it’s a long story!<\/p>\n

Brilliant.<\/p>\n

Alex Ferguson & Brian Cox share similar backgrounds\u00a0<\/p>\n

For those of us who have watched Succession, you can certainly see the similarities in the two characters.<\/p>\n

Brian Cox and Alex Ferguson are of a similar vintage, having both been born in Scotland in the 1940s. Whereas the former described himself as ‘hopeless’ at football despite his love of the game, Ferguson went on to carve out a stellar career in the game.<\/p>\n

Perhaps he took a little bot of inspiration from Fergie’s infamous ‘hairdryer’ when it came to his time in Succession. Roy Keane clearly wasn’t impressed with the comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 20 years on from their falling out at Manchester United, it is clear that Roy Keane has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,271,112],"class_list":["post-549990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-roy-keane","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}