Roy Keane went full Roy Keane with his reaction to the snood craze that swept the Premier League

Roy Keane isn’t exactly the biggest fan of footballers sporting winter clothing.

Just last week, the Manchester United icon had fans chuckling when he took aim at Harry Maguire and Raphael Varane for daring to wear gloves in the warm-up for the Premier League clash with Tottenham Hotspur.

Keane said cuttingly in the Sky Sports studio: “Are they gloves? Are they wearing gloves? Is that what I’m seeing? Am I seeing things? That’s a great message, yeah.”

Now, it’s no secret that Keane is just as brutal and uncompromising in front of television cameras as he was on the pitch, but that doesn’t make it any less amusing that players wearing gloves ticked him off.

However, if you cast your minds back to the heady days of the 2010/11 season, then you might remember an era in which Premier League players went one step further to protect themselves from the cold.

Yes, that’s right, we are of course talking about the snood craze that once swept through England’s top-flight with players hopping on board the trend to ensure that their necks stayed toasty.

While the accessory was eventually banned by the FA in March 2011, there was a time where players like Carlos Tevez, Marouane Chamakh and Samir Nasri made the phenomena seem pretty normal.

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Nevertheless, as you’d expect, none other than Keane himself wasn’t too impressed by a winter-battling fashion choice that went far beyond what he saw from Maguire and Varane over a decade later.

The then Ipswich Town manager was just as unamused by the snood-sporting craze as you’d imagine, even giving insight into his own rules that generously – I guess? – allowed his players to wear gloves in training.

According to the Guardian, Keane said of the