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BRIAN Clough claims Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson "risks losing his own credibility" if he does not bring Roy Keane to book following his horror tackle on Alfie Haaland.
The Republic of Ireland skipper, sold by Nottingham Forest to United shortly after Clough retired from the game in 1993, was sent off for the knee-high lunge which felled Haaland during the Manchester derby.
Clough said: "I can believe Lennox Lewis didn't see that punch coming last Sunday morning and the skipper of the Titanic had some excuse for not spotting an iceberg.
"But I couldn't believe my big ears when Fergie said he had not seen the tackle and that the secretary thought it was a sending- off.
"A sending-off? It was among the worst fouls I have ever seen.
"I would have thought Ferguson would have made it his business to see a television replay if he wasn't sure what happened.
"To come out and say he hadn't seen it - well, that ridiculed our intelligence and compounded the crime.
"Even now, several days later,...