ROY Keane got exactly what he deserved when he was unceremoniously dumped by Manchester United last Friday.

For 12 years, Keane was a brilliant servant for United and one of the best ever players to appear in the Premiership.

But he crossed a line when he decided to slate his team-mates in a recent interview with MUTV, leaving Sir Alex Ferguson with no choice other than to give him the boot.

You can forgive a footballer for many things; a rash challenge in the heat of battle and a few cross words here and there.

But the one thing you don't do is come out and slag your own team-mates off in public, which Keane attempted to do before United pulled the plug on his vicious character assassination.

As a player, you could accept your manager openly criticising you in the press if he felt the need to do it.

I can't say I ever liked reading it and, thankfully, it didn't happen to me very often.

But there's no way I would have ever tolerated one of my own team-mates doing that.

You'd have to be an exceptional player to get away with pointing the finger so publicly at other people, and considerably better than anyone else in that same dressing room.

Sadly, Roy ceased to be that figure some time ago at United so when he made those comments, his position effectively became untenable.

As for where he goes now, well, who cares to be honest.

You were good, Roy, until your ego got the better of you.