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Man Utd legend Keane: Foreign players have right approach to fitness

Manchester United legend Roy Keane regrets not taking care of himself earlier in his playing career.

Keane admits he admires foreign players who took seriously their profession.

"The beauty is I don't have to explain everything in the book," he added. "I reached a stage in my career where I gave [alcohol] up. I had enough of it.

"I was thinking, I want to play a little longer, but ironically the hip finished me early anyway. I want to give credit to the foreign players. You go on about regrets but maybe I could have looked after my body better when I was younger.

"Some of that was not about being a professional football. It was about being young, 19, 20, what are you going to do after a game, go home and watch Downton Abbey? Come on. You are going to go out."

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