>From The Times. July 6, 2003
The Manchester United captain has changed the section of his book dealing with a notorious episode, says David Bond ROY KEANE�S controversial autobiography looks set to cause a new stir after it emerged he has been forced to rewrite the passage in which he claimed he set out to deliberately injure former Manchester City player Alf Inge Haaland. The Manchester United captain was banned for five matches and fined �150,000 last October after he was found guilty by a Football Association tribunal of deliberately trying to injure Haaland and profiting from the incident by writing about it. But as part of the conditions of his punishment, Keane has been told to remove the controversial claim from a new edition due out next month. Eamon Dunphy, Keane�s ghostwriter, said the controversial paragraph has had words �omitted to suit the decision of the tribunal�. �Words have changed in the section about Haaland so now there is a semantic difference in the passage,� Dunphy said. �It will be understood differently.� Keane was sent off for a vicious tackle on Haaland in United�s game against Manchester City in April 2001. In his autobiography, published last August, Keane described how he set out to hurt Haaland. The notorious quote read: �I�d waited long enough. I f*****g hit him hard. The ball was there (I think). Take that you c***. And don�t ever stand over me again sneering about fake injuries.� In interviews conducted before publication, Keane said he did not regret the tackle. �Even in the dressing room afterwards I had no remorse,� he said. �My attitude was f*** him. What goes around comes around. He got his just rewards.� But publication of the quote caused uproar and within days Keane recanted his remarks. �I have never in my career set out to deliberately injure any player,� he said. �In the incident involving Haaland, I was making a genuine effort to play the ball. The words in the book represent a degree of artistic licence.� The amended quote for the new paperback edition was agreed by Keane�s representatives as part of the FA disciplinary process. Publisher Penguin has confirmed the change to the passage but will not reveal specific details about the editing. Legal sources involved in the FA tribunal say Keane�s lawyers agreed to the changes. One of his advisers said: �Dunphy rewrote the paragraph. It had been agreed with the tribunal and all legal aspects of the new edition were looked over in detail.� The edited version will be checked by the tribunal. The FA says it will examine the paperback after its release. The new edition will have an extra 6,000-word chapter about other Keane controversies since the hardback came out. Dunphy added: �Roy and I were careful after what happened last time. The chapter concentrates on Manchester United and winning the Premiership. He explains how his injury affected his decision about returning to the Irish team.� ===== Michael C. Taylor Koger Center for the Arts 1051 Greene Street Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 777-9782 http://www.koger.sc.edu __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Save on Coral Calcium. Get Better Health and Stronger Bones. Seen on TV http://www.challengerone.com/t/l.asp?cid-2805&lp=calcium2.asp http://us.click.yahoo.com/9gf46B/EfUGAA/ySSFAA/tsUolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************** Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe from the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
