Keane slams ‘disgraceful’ Maguire for his choice of celebration in England 5-0 win v Albania

Manchester United legend Roy Keane has slammed club captain and defender Harry Maguire for his choice of celebration after scoring in England’s World Cup qualifying game against Albania on Friday.

Harry Maguire put his hands on his ears in a subtle message to his critics after he was criticised for his role in Manchester United poor run of form.

Roy Keane, Paul Scholes, Nigel De Jong have all criticized the Manchester United captain in the past week for his poor performances during the time.

‘He’s put his hands to his ears like he’s shutting the critics up, but I think that’s embarrassing,’ said Keane during half-time of ITV’s coverage.

‘He’s been a disgrace the last few months for Man United. He thinks because he’s scored there he’s going to shut his critics up? Embarrassing.’

Fellow pundit Ian Wright agreed that the celebration was unnecessary, saying: ‘The thing with it is you just don’t need to do it.

‘I just feel like it’s something I probably would have done, but you look at it now and you think: you don’t need to do that because you’ve got a lot of football to play.

‘So don’t give them [the critics] the opportunity to say, “Right, we’ve got to him”. Just play the game Harry.’

Jermain Defoe, who was also at Wembley as part of ITV’s coverage, added: ‘Yeah you don’t need to do it. He’s scored the goal, it’s a good goal, you don’t need to do that.

‘And what it does is it puts a sour taste in people’s mouths who don’t like that, and gives people the opportunity to wait for that bad performance again and have a go at him.’