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Ian Wright was taught a lesson by Roy Keane after the former Arsenal forward turned up two minutes late for lunch with the Irishman.

Former Manchester United captain Keane is notorious for not taking slackers lightly throughout his playing career and it seems he has carried these values into his work as a pundit.

And Wright - who now works alongside Keane covering England games and tournaments for ITV - learned this the hard way while the pair were working together covering the World Cup.

The Gunners great arrived for lunch two minutes later than the agreed time and was stunned to find that Keane - whom he believes to be the greatest ever Premier League captain - used the opportunity to display the standards he set as United skipper.

“For me, he was the best captain in the Premier League,” Wright told BBC’s Match of the Day: Top 10 podcast.

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“What he ushered in with the Class of ’92, with the great players around him, the consistency of his performances without compromising exactly what he was about in respect of the way he sees the game and his principles and his morals.

“Honestly, I’ve got so much admiration for Roy Keane. I have to say, we were at the World Cup together [as pundits] and I was thinking, ‘oh my gosh, we’re really cool mates, it’s fine’.

“And I remember there was this one time I asked Roy if he wanted to go to lunch, because we had breakfast then we’d go for lunch.

“He said, ‘okay, Wrighty. See you at 1:15’. I said, ‘no problem, I’ve just got to go and do some stuff’. So I had to go and do that, I got there at 1:17, I was waiting in the lobby, I phoned and said, ‘Roy, okay, I’m here’. And he said, ‘Wrighty, 1:15 is 1:15, I’m not coming’.

“I laughed because I thought he was only messing about but he said, ‘Wrighty, I’m not coming’. And he hung up the phone. And I never saw him until the evening.

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“And as soon as I saw him he done one of those cheeky smiles he’s got and he said, ‘this is why Man United was so successful, we done what had to be done on time, we done what we needed to do’.

“And that’s what made me think with Roy Keane is that to be under him, under his stewardship as a captain, he would take nothing in respect of failure.

“What I like about Roy Keane and anybody that knows him or spends any time with him, obviously he doesn’t suffer any fools, but I’ve never seen anybody who loves football and speaks about football as much as he does.

“He’ll tell you about a player in League Two, a left-back somewhere, he loves it. The fact is, when he’s off-camera he’s just a very serious man, he’s a serious bloke, he doesn’t deal with foolishness.

“I cannot stop laughing when I’m in his presence, the way he shuts people down and shuts things off, it just makes me laugh all the time, I just love being around him.”