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  • In a memoir as hard-hitting as his tackles, MARTIN KEOWN tells the inside story of his infamous clash with Van Nistelrooy — and why Gary.
  • My autobiography 'On The Edge' is out on Oct It's a no holds barred account of my life on and off the pitch.
  • Those days have gone and now a copy of his autobiography, On the Edge, an enthralling study of his playing days, which, at its heart, examines.

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    'Gary Neville rubbed me up the wrong way' writes MARTIN KEOWN in his memoirs

    In a memoir as hard-hitting as his tackles, MARTIN KEOWN tells the inre story of his infamous clash with Van Nistelrooy — and why Gary Neville was such an irritant.

    When I put on my red boots to play for Arsenal, I became an angry warrior who just had to win.

    It might explain what happened in the Battle of Old Trafford, a match so notorious it has its own Wikipedia page. I sometimes wonder if people would even remember me if I hadn’t been involved in that moment with Ruud van Nistelrooy. I lost my head. You’ve all seen the pictures and the footage, I’m sure, me with my arms wide open, jumping in the air and down onto Van Nistelrooy’s back, a look of pure rage in my eyes. I just wanted to hetsa and humiliate him, to man him realise who the real devil on the pitch was and that we weren’t going to stand by and let him win. It became so notorious, it has a whole chapter in my book.

    We were playin

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    EXCLUSIVEWe had to take Man United down - they ran English football, Sir Alex was influencing referees and I wanted to humiliate Van Nistelrooy even though I nearly signed for them, writes MARTIN KEOWN 

    In a memoir as hard-hitting as his tackles, MARTIN KEOWN tells the inre story of his infamous clash with Van Nistelrooy — and why Gary Neville was such an irritant.

    When I put on my red boots to play for Arsenal, I became an angry warrior who just had to win.

    It might explain what happened in the Battle of Old Trafford, a match so notorious it has its own Wikipedia page. I sometimes wonder if people would even remember me if I hadn’t been involved in that moment with Ruud van Nistelrooy. I lost my head. You’ve all seen the pictures and the footage, I’m sure, me with my arms wide open, jumping in the air and down onto Van Nistelrooy’s back, a look of pure rage in my eyes. I just wanted to hetsa and humiliate him, to man him realise who the real devil on the pitch was and that

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    EXCLUSIVEArsenal legend Martin Keown felt like an outsider and the 'fifth musketeer' of their back four - now, the Premier League's artful destroyer and anti-hero tells OLIVER HOLT about life on the edge and how he avoided drinking culture

    There is a lovely little pub on the northern fringes of Oxford city centre that is frequented by an eclectic mix of university lecturers, players from the local ice hockey team, the Oxford City Stars, former and current university students and Formula One types. Martin Keown is sitting at a small table in the corridor that runs through it, eating a vegan pie.

    It is a gentle man who sits here now. Still intense, still demanding, but a funny, thoughtful, benevolent man comfortable in his surroundings, grounded in the place where he was born and brought up. He has, he says, spent the last 20 years apologising to former opponents for the way he used to be.

    Neurotic, deranged, wide-eyed unhinged, scary, unrelenting, aggressive, in your face, aka T