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Roy Keane: 'If there was social media in my time as a player, I'd be in prison'

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One can only imagine the type of trouble Roy Keane would have gotten into if Twitter existed in the 1990s.

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Speaking at a fundraiser for Barretstown, a not-for-profit camp for children with cancer and other serious illnesses in Ireland, Keane affirmed it's probably for the best that his time at Manchester United predated the rise of social media.

"If there was social media in my time as a player, I'd be in prison," Keane said, according to Independent.ie.

Keane did spend a night in jail in 1999, when he allegedly assaulted a woman and was arrested by the Greater Manchester Police.

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