Keane awaits penalty
Roy Keane has yet to learn the penalty he will face from the FA after being found guilty of disrepute - but he does have the right of appeal.
Keane was found guilty on two charges of bringing the game into disrepute at his FA hearing at the Reebok Stadium today.
The penalties for both charges are yet to be decided.
The first charge related to his infamous tackle on Alfie Haaland at Old Trafford in April, 2001, which the three-man FA disciplinary panel today confirmed had been “improperly motivated”.
The second arose from Keane’s decision to cash in on the tackle by detailing it in his recently released autobiography.
It leaves the Irishman in a somewhat tricky position given his imminent return to fitness from a hip operation.
Should Keane choose to extend the inquiry into the revelations, he would almost certainly have to serve any ban while fit.
Ghost-writer Eamon Dunphy, Old Trafford boss Alex Ferguson and even a high-ranking official from his book publishers Penguin were believed to have spoken on Keane‘s behalf in a hearing which lasted almost seven hours, but it appears to have been to little avail.
