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11th October 2017
08:45pm BST

"He's an amazing guy," Campbell said on Unfiltered with James O'Brien, a new podcast from JOE.
"He lives not far from Burnley, and he came to a game last season. I had a cup of tea with him at half-time. It wasn't that great of a game, I think we were winning one-nil. And Roy Keane starts talking about the full-backs on the other team with a passion and a vehemence that is just beyond belief. 'They're f****** disgraces, they shouldn't be... he should take them off! Take them off!' So, I said, 'why do you care?' He said, 'it just offends me, it offends everything I believe in'."https://twitter.com/JOE_co_uk/status/917782664400330752 Campbell also said that he can relate to Keane, as he believes that they share a similar compulsive personality trait. He also reveals that he wrote to the former Ireland midfielder when he left United back in 2005, and when he came home before the 2002 World Cup.
"I wrote to him when he... funny enough his agent sounded me out about ghosting his biography. I wrote to him after he got the boot from Fergie and I only had that story from Alex Ferguson's side... but I just, I don't know why... I felt an empathy, I wrote to him twice actually, I wrote to him when he quit the World Cup and I wrote to him when he left United and it was basically just to say, '(you can) tell me to get lost, and that it's none of my business but I think I know some of the (your) traits'.""To give him a few thoughts on the pitfalls for obsessive, addictive personalities leaving an all-consuming job for an uncertain future," O'Brien said. "That's exactly what it was," Campbell said, before explaining how he fell into a deep depression after leaving his role in Downing Street. He also says that how, like Keane, his "demons" have held him back but have also been the driving force behind his achievements.
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