Micah Richards on the one player that even Roy Keane was afraid of

"How hard are you really then?"

Micah Richards has revealed that Roy Keane is not the hardest man in football, despite his reputation as one of the toughest competitors to play the game. Richards was debating with Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer on the Match of the Day podcast, where they were trying to list the hardest men in football. Surprisingly, the Man United legend only made it to number five, as many would have expected him to rank much higher in the list, especially after his infamous run-ins with Shearer on the pitch. However, Richards reveals why he couldn't put the Irishman any higher than five, and it's all because of a certain Everton legend. "I watched some videos because a couple of these are before my time and the reason why he slipped down to number five is because of Duncan Ferguson," Richards said. Keane himself didn't shy away from the fact that even he would pick and choose his battles, and Ferguson wasn't a battle that he wanted to pick.