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'Before I sat down they'd already prepared a statement': Roy Keane opens up on last moments with Sir Alex Ferguson before he kicked him out of Man United - and 'had the years wrong' on his goodbye

Roy Keane has opened up on his unceremonious Manchester United exit, revealing that Sir Alex Ferguson and David Gill had sat him down and had prepared a statement for him to that announced he was being let go.

The Irishman also added that the club had also gotten the years wrong on the statement, with Ian Wright claiming his dismissal was 'cold'.

The 52-year-old controversially walked out of Old Trafford back in November 2005 after appearing in an interview on MUTV where he criticised his team-mates' performances following a 4-1 defeat by Middlesbrough - a game in which Keane did not play in.