Roy Keane has recalled the day Eric Cantona stunned his Manchester United teammates by handing over £8,000 each to Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt for taking part in a dressingroom bonding session.

"In my early years at United, there was a players' pool and each of us would get about £800 out of it at the end of the season for the work we'd done for the in-house magazines, the club videos,” Keane said in his autobiography.

"We were all on decent money and eight hundred quid wasn't going to make or break us, so one time, we decided to put all the cheques into a hat and the last cheque out, whoever's name was on it, got to keep all of the cheques.

"We all put our cheques in except a couple of the younger players.

"They opted out. They were new on the scene and didn't have the money to spare, but Scholesy and Nicky Butt put their cheques in.

"I think I was the third last name out, so I got a run for my money, but the last cheque out - Eric Cantona. He'd won about sixteen grand.

"He came in the next day, there was plenty of but he had got somebody to cash the cheques and he split the money in two and gave it to Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt because, he said, the two of them had the guts to go into it when they couldn't really afford it."