When the names Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira comes up, everybody thinks about their fierce rivalry and the Highbury tunnel incident. That famous event which happened in 2005 was the most iconic and it summed up their relationship in a one minute scuffle just between the pair just before the game. Arsenal lost at home 4-2 in that match and it also ended the bitter rivalry, as Vieira went to Juventus the following summer while Keane had a fight with Sir Alex Ferguson and left the club next year. But, their relationship was never personal, as it showed a couple of years after.Pires reveals he started the famous Vieira – Keane tunnel bust up“The two boys bumped into each other in Barcelona one night and immediately kind of embraced and got on like old pals. And people were shocked, genuinely surprised. And then we took them both to Warsaw for the 2012 European Championships and I remember, I was the producer. I walked them around and Roy Keane bought Patrick Vieira an ice cream and said, ‘what flavour would you like, Patrick?’ It just seems so incongruous and so ridiculous” Tony Pastor, who was behind the ITV ‘Best of Enemies’ documentary said on William Hill’s Press Box Confidential.(2.45) ATLAS (3.00) CRUZ AZUL (3.05)Pastor also remembered that during the EURO 2012, which was co-organized by Poland and Ukraine, he did a piece about racism in those countries and at one point, Keane was totally supportive of Vieira.“The big story, there was a big question about racism in Ukraine and Poland at that time. And, we asked Patrick Vieira, if he was willing, on the first show, to talk about this and he said absolutely. Adrian Chiles was the presenter and he said, ‘How have you found it?’ He said, ‘I have to say everyone’s been really polite to me but I’m really conscious I’m being stared at, it’s quite uncomfortable walking around central Warsaw’. And Roy Keane, out of the blue, said at that moment, he said ‘to judge a man by the colour of his skin in this day and age is disgusting’. And Patrick looked at him and I thought, ‘blimey Roy’s telling him I’m with you, I’m supporting you and whatever we’ve gone through in the past, that’s entirely unacceptable and I’m willing to publicly state so’” said Pastor.
