Manchester United legend Roy Keane once penned a letter asking Liverpool to sign him, his former coach has stated. The former United captain is a club icon, having won seven Premier League titles during a glittering career at Old Trafford.
However, former coach Alfie Hale has revealed that Keane wrote to Liverpool, along with Arsenal, Manchester City and other Premier League big-hitters, to ask them to come and watch him play for Hale's side, Cobh Ramblers.
Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest were the only club to respond, writing back to say: 'Thanks, but no thanks.' "He said that Forest at least had the courtesy to respond to him," Hale told The42.
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