Roy Keane has opened up about life after football, and claims he was pushed into management because his family wanted rid of him.
The Manchester United legend retired from playing in 2006 but within months had returned to the game to take up the post of Sunderland manager.
He claims his initial plan after retirement was to spend time with the family and go on holidays, but they had other ideas.
'My plan when I first stopped was we're going to go on some family trips, we're going to be like The Waltons', he told Donncha O'Callaghan on Game Over: True Lives.
'We're all going to spend time together, go walk in the park and after a month or two they didn't have the same plans as me so I think they were kind of missing me going to work.
'I got offered a job at Sunderland and I was away on a family holiday and my family were looking at me… not saying it directly but going we kind of enjoy your company but not too much of it.
'So when the job came back up they were saying you should go for it!'
The Irishman has recently returned to work as Martin O'Neil's assistant at Nottingham Forest.
O'Neill had made clear his wish to appoint Keane as No 2 upon taking over at Forest earlier this month.
The pair are reunited having worked together with Republic of Ireland for five years.
