Here's the latest article from
www.uefa.com on the situation:
Manchester United FC midfield player Roy Keane has been given a five-match ban and a €237,000 fine after being found guilty by the English Football Association on two counts of bringing the game into disrepute.
Charges denied
The ban, which will start on 4 November, was decided by the FA's disciplinary commission at the Reebok stadium in Bolton today. Both charges related to an incident with Alf Inge Haaland of Manchester City FC in an English Premiership match on 21 April 2001. The 31-year-old Irishman had denied both at the afternoon hearing which ran for several hours.
'Improperly motivated'
The first charge was connected to a challenge on Haaland, which the three-man panel confirmed was "improperly motivated", with an apparent element of revenge. The second alleged Keane published for financial profit or reward, an account in his autobiography in which he spoke of a desire to exact revenge on Haaland, therefore bringing the game into disrepute.
Right to appeal
Keane will have right to appeal the ban and fine, as long as it is lodged within 14 days. He was joined at the hearing by United's lawyer Maurice Watkins, club manager Sir Alex Ferguson, and Eamon Dunphy, the man who wrote Keane: The Autobiography. Haaland was not present.
