SKY SPORTS chiefs have asked Roy Keane’s pundit pals to help them investigate the former Ireland midfielder’s scrape with a fan.
Keane was on post-match pitchside duty after Manchester United’s 1-1 draw with Ipswich when he was verbally accosted by a home supporter.
The former Portman Road boss, who had two seasons in charge of the Suffolk side, was angered by the comments and caught on camera telling his verbal assailant “I’ll wait for you in the car park”.
Ipswich security staff then intervened to take the supporter away.
Yesterday, Ipswich fan Neil Finbow claimed on social media that he had been the subject of Keane’s ire.
In his Facebook account, Finbow wrote: “New claim to fame - just been offered out into the carpark by Roy Keane after a few choice words.
“Even Jamie Redknapp had to come over to get him away - just ya average Sunday evening out.”
Responding to a comment, he then allegedly wrote: "I was reminding him that he set us back five years and ruined our football club. I also mentioned how he wasn't fit to step foot anywhere near our ground [Portman Road].
"Oh, and I mentioned about him walking out on a World Cup and breaking Haaland's leg and putting it in his autobiography.
"I hate the bloke, and that's been boiling up since he got sacked all those years ago."
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Finbow went on to write in a further comment: "The truth hurts, mate. I feel sick when I look at him."
He went on to say that Keane argued with another fan and that his car park comment may have been taken out of context.
He told the Daily Mail: "The argument all stemmed from an issue with his children. The fan's issue was about getting autographs back in the day when he was the manager here. The guy was basically saying Roy Keane ruled with fear.
"You could see him pointing to the car park because that is where the autographs were done, and that's where he had the issue with Roy all those years ago. So, it makes sense they were pointing over there."
He added: "What Roy said back could have been misconstrued. He might have wanted to talk in the car park as that's where it all happened.
"It's hard to tell. But yeah, he could have meant 'I'll talk to you in the car park,' but it came across as if he was inviting him out [for a fight]."
It was the second incident involving Keane and supporters in 15 months.
In June, Arsenal fan Scott Law was given a three-year banning order by magistrates and ordered to pay £764 after butting Keane after a dispute in a lounge at the Emirates Stadium after the Gunners’ win over United in September.
Sky Sports executives have now asked Keane’s pundit duty colleagues - Redknapp, Izzy Christensen and presenter Kelly Cates - as well as production staff on duty to give their accounts of the incident so that a full picture can be given.
At this stage, though, Sun Sport understands that no further action is expected while there have been no internal discussions about Keane being given extra security support in future.