Roy Keane has told how he had 'no interest' in talking to his Irish teammates when facing them in Premier League clashes.
In an outburst at the tendency for modern players to chat with the opposition before and after games, the Corkman said: "If I came up against an Irish lad, I had no interest in speaking to them.
"Sometimes, I wasn't even speaking to my own team-mates!
"That's the way it was. It's not old school, it's good school. I see City and United lads chatting after the game. I just don't think it's right."
Keane was speaking on a live edition of The Overlap alongside Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher, the former United captain also talked disparagingly about the Aston Villa team he coached under then manager Paul Lambert.
"We had a brilliant dressing-room at Manchester United, and you assume it's the same everywhere - it's not," said Keane.
"It's only when you go to another club and see so-called professional footballers, imposters I call them.
"I went to coach at Aston Villa (in 2014). Honestly, there were players at the club like scumbags. They would have been scumbags on a building site.
"They didn't train properly. They didn't speak to staff properly. Then you wonder why they don't win anything, because they've people like you in the dressing-room!
"The strange thing is, you turn up on time and train properly and they think there's something wrong with you. No, you're supposed to train like it's the last training session you'll ever have. They're like, ‘Nah, not for me’. He pauses. 'P***k!"
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