I left Manchester United after 'slaughtering' my teammates and telling one to 'shut the f*** up'

"There was always a chance it was going to come to this," Gary Neville said, recently reflecting on the dark day Manchester United's stars gathered with Sir Alex Ferguson and his staff to watch Roy Keane's "destroyed" interview in 2005.

It was an attempt to clear the air.

It didn't work.

"This moment... was sort of coming," Neville admits, referring to a seemingly inevitable confrontation between his captain and his manager that proved fatal for the relationship between two men who are, at the end of the day, mirrors of one another.

Stubborn. Hungry. Born winners.

"That meeting was horrific, by the way... it was horrific, let's be clear. It's not funny. Honestly, it was horrific. You could not say anything.

"You thought 'oh for f***s sake'.

"You knew that was it."

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When Manchester United are losing Keane still cannot hide his frustration, firing broadsides at under-performing players from the Sky Sports studio.

The former midfielder previously said he'd have "lynched" David de Gea after a mistake at Everton and said he was "staggered" by Harry Maguire's defending in a draw at Tottenham, the same day he said he was "sick to death of this goalkeeper".

"I'm disgusted with it. Maguire, De Gea... you should hang your heads in shame." Keane's caustic tongue is nothing new. As Keane's ex-teammate, former United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer knows all about the Irishman's temper, as does technical director Darren Fletcher.

The only difference now is that Keane is at least throwing grenades as an interested - and clearly passionate -