Roy Keane appeared on the Stick To Football podcast
The former player and manager – who made 326 appearances for United – will speak about his life and career in front of thousands of fans at the SSE Arena in May.
The night will reunite Keane and Doyle who first teamed up on Keane's 2014 memoir, The Second Half and also comes on the back of the pair speaking at three sold-out nights in the footballer’s home city of Cork during the summer.
They will also be bringing the show to Dublin’s 3Arena the next night with Keane likely to recount the highs and lows of his high profile career both on and off the pitch.
One particular chapter audiences will likely hear is the infamous events that led up to the explosive confrontation in Saipan that ended with Keane leaving the Republic’s World Cup squad in 2002.
Earlier this month Keane revealed he always knew he could not win the battle with then Republic of Ireland manager Mick McCarthy, as he admitted he simply couldn’t hold back in a row that had been building for a long time before the final showdown in front of his team-mates.
Speaking on the Stick To Football podcast, he said he felt he had to confront McCarthy during a team meeting and conceded he could not contain his annoyance over the team kit arriving late in Saipan and poor quality pitches for training were impossible for him to ignore.
“Football’s a selfish game and you look after yourself, but that’s not my gig,” he stated. “I’m not there to sort the gear out, so why am I getting drawn into something like that?"
“I’d probably do exactly the same thing (now) because the biggest guilt is when you keep your mouth shut, but where is that line when you cross that you get drawn into a conversation with a manager where you say this is unacceptable?
“With my temperament, once you get involved in it, there’s no going back. That’s where the tension comes into it.
“This first chat we had when we got over there and the gear hadn’t arrived it was like ‘Mick, what’s going on?’. It was all relaxed and casual.
“The tension then built over the next few days. When you go down that road, there’s no going back.”
Keane went on to suggest senior members of McCarthy’s Republic squad at the 2002 World Cup were reluctant to get involved in his battle with the manager, which clearly left him frustrated.
Roy Keane appeared on the Stick To Football podcast
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“You want people to be trying to make things right. You want things done properly. Not perfection,” he continued.
“There were other lads who played hundreds of games and I’m like how can you sit there. I couldn’t sit there.
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“It’s not like you qualified for the World Cup and it’s on next week. You qualified six months in advance.
“I had frustrations for a number of years and I laughed and joked, but you get there and the gear is not there. There comes a tipping point where you say ‘hold on, what’s going on here?’.”
Tickets for the Belfast date on May 7 go on sale this Friday 28th November at 9am from Ticketmaster.ie.