10 Insane Football Punishments You Won't Believe
6. Roy Keane Ends An Opponent's Career
Though Erling Haaland is currently earning headlines across the footballing world for his clinical form, his father Alf-Inge led a much more understated career on the pitch.
Well, mostly...
During a stint at Leeds United in 1997, Haaland Sr. was involved in an on-field collision that resulted in notoriously level-headed Manchester United midfielder Roy Keane suffering an ACL tear. As anyone who ever saw the Irish player can probably attest, being involved in a bitter dispute with a player of Keane's temperament was not going to be great for your future prospects.
Haaland's move to Man City did little to simmer the tensions between the pair in the years that followed. Keane would seek revenge on his nemesis in a Premier League fixture in 2001 with one of the worst tackles in modern football history, that ultimately brought an end to the Norwegian international's career.
Keane was initially fined £5000 and handed a three-match ban for the tackle, though this would later be upped to a record, eye-watering £150,000 after Keane admitted in his autobiography that he was seeking revenge and that the incident was entirely intentional.
Remind me to never get in Roy Keane's bad books...