Roy Keane admits there are no excuses for the continuing lack of self-discipline which keeps getting him sent off. The Manchester United captain's bad temper earned him the 10th red card of his career in his team's Barclaycard Premiership defeat at Newcastle last week – and he accepts that, at 30, he ought to have grown out of such behaviour.
Keane conceded: "Nobody needs to tell me how foolishly I behaved at Newcastle last weekend. There is no defence. There are no excuses." The combative Republic of Ireland midfielder, using his column in today's Daily Telegraph to air his thoughts on why he keeps getting himself into trouble, traces the problem to the fact that he just hates losing.
He insisted: "What matters is how I deal with defeat, and at the moment it would seem I suffer from a lack of discipline that affects not just me but my Manchester United team-mates. I rather hoped the penny would have dropped by now, but it seems that is not yet the case."
Keane insists he is not letting the situation drift on and is trying all he knows to find a way to contain himself. He added: "It is something I have been working on, as difficult as some may find that to believe. I try to maintain control, try to stay calm. But the red mist sometimes descends - and once that happens 50,000 people would not be able to stop me bursting into a fit of rage."
Filed by Shane Murray
