Former Blues boss Roy Keane was involved in a heated exchange with a group of Town supporters following yesterday’s 1-1 draw with his former club Manchester United.

In scenes reminiscent of the final game of Keane’s disastrous 20-month tenure as Blues boss, the January 2011 1-0 defeat to another of his old sides Nottingham Forest (pictured above), the former Republic of Ireland skipper reacted to fans in the lower tier of the West Stand.

During the exchange, which was caught on film, Keane, 53, offered to meet one of his detractors in the car park.

The one-time Manchester United skipper was making a rare return to Portman Road as part of the Sky Sports Super Sunday punditry team.

Town fan Neil Finbow later revealed that he was the supporter who took issue with Keane and outlined what he had said in a series of Facebook posts.

Meanwhile, in what was an eventful post-match on Sky, Blues sponsor and minority shareholder Ed Sheeran interrupted new United head coach Ruben Amorim’s interview with the satellite channel.

Earlier, VAR hadn’t been in use for a round five minutes before half-time during the game due to a fire alarm at Stockley Park, where VAR official Jarred Gillett and his assistant is Neil Davies were watching the game.

Referee Anthony Taylor, who has been widely praised for his performance during the match, called over captains Sam Morsy and Bruno Fernandes to explain the situation.

While Town scored their brilliant leveller through Omari Hutchinson, there were no contentious incidents during the beif hiatus.

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d77sgw added 09:59 - Nov 25 Roy Keane showing the same level of professional judgement here that made him such a success in all his management jobs....
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Rimsy added 10:04 - Nov 25 What a knob.
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Marinersnose added 10:06 - Nov 25 Hopefully the club will identify those individuals and ban them from the club. They’re not football fans just social misfits who are being brave and mouthy to a former professional player and manager. Proper fans were celebrating and excellent performances and match not being hell bent on shouting abuse. His body language was aggressive but when confronted he was clearly shocked and scared. Agree Keane shouldn’t respond to idiots but everyone has levels of tolerance .

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Gforce added 10:10 - Nov 25 Don't know why the guy is having a go at him. To be fair to Keane he was very fair in his after match assessment and praised the Town,saying if anyone was going to win the match it was Ipswich and not United.
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AlamoSam added 10:19 - Nov 25 The traffic lights have turned green mate. Enjoy the ride we’re on rather than dwelling on that.
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STATMAN added 10:32 - Nov 25 I don't like Roy Keane but but the man is part of our rich history and deserves to be treated like any other employee of ITFC (Past Or Present). I wonder if the 2 idiots having a moan would welcome someone going to visit them at their place of work and having a go. Identify the 2 concerned and ban them so that the game can be attended by real supporters who are trying and failing to get tickets!!!

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trncbluearmy added 10:39 - Nov 25 Grassed up and advocating a ban for having ago at a joke of a manager some of you lot need to get real
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johnwarksshorts added 10:49 - Nov 25 The blokes a disgrace. Shouldn't be getting involved with supporters. He's supposed to be a professional pundit.
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Gforce added 10:53 - Nov 25 Off topic ,but Danny Murphy was really praising Liam Delap on MOTD last night.It was praise of the highest order,commenting that Delap is the only natural successor to Harry Kane and he has been extremely impressed,every time he has seen him. Along with Davis and Hutchinson, we could potentially have 3 England players before too long. Let's hope we can keep hold of them all for many years to come.

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terryf added 10:57 - Nov 25 Whilst I do not condone any of our fans getting into a confrontation with an ex manager I do understand the anger. Probably our worst Manager in terms of man management, Team selection and tactics that seemed to change every game. Apart from Carlos Edwards he brought in several players who under performed and his tenure was most certainly the start of our decline. Oh yes! and wasn't he also the Manager who wanted to change our Team colours from blue to red! He certainly loved to invite controversy!

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Baino added 10:58 - Nov 25 Is Roy Keane a bit of a prick? Probably. Does he have a right to answer back like you or me, id say so. But why bother with him? Why worry about 15+ years ago? Why the negativity? How about focusing on the now and the positivity? In my humble opinion, they've embarrassed the club a tad but probably more themselves. But equally, calling for them to be banned is over the top, too. Let's just all calm down and enjoy the season.

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dirtydingusmagee added 11:02 - Nov 25 A stupid distraction from what had been a great and memorable day , one that underlined how far we have come in short time since the dark Evans era.
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chepstowblue added 11:39 - Nov 25 Handbags really. But let's face is, the 'fan' who was after his 15mins of fame, wouldn't have confronted Keane had no one else been around. Another brave individual giving himself and the club some unwanted publicity. Give your head a wobble Dopey, and please don't ever have children.
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MickMccarthyWasRight added 11:40 - Nov 25 Really embarrassed by the behaviour shown by that fan to Keane. I myself had my issues with Roy in the past but don't scream at someone while they're working. What a Clown!!!
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dangerous30 added 11:43 - Nov 25 Some people just cannot help themselves it does nothing for the Ipswich imagine, but don’t worry about that get you 2secs of fame.
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SouperJim added 11:49 - Nov 25 Well done Neil Finbow, Keane deserves to know exactly what we think of him and that he is not welcome at ITFC.
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ITFC_LOU added 13:30 - Nov 25 ooo you're ard Neil
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scooby added 14:11 - Nov 25 This club is run in the right way in so many ways. Shame we have the odd idiot that undermines everything we are trying to promote.it made him look bad and the club look bad. Absolutely no need to engage in the first place. To who ever you are sir, classy that certainly wasnt.
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BlueySwede added 14:30 - Nov 25 I'm no fan of Roy Keane's stint as a manager at our beloved club—who is? But as a football pundit, I think he's pretty good from what I´ve seen, and he was there to do his job. I really don't understand fans who waste energy yelling at a former manager instead of just enjoying what an amazing performance our team delivered yesterday.
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The_Prisoner added 16:29 - Nov 25 Embarrassing, especially as Roy was heaping praise on Ipswich's performance and manager. The yokels letting their lard out are situated in the family section as well. The story made the back page of the Daily Mail sport in a big feature and included the quote "F*** you Keane." Great publicity for the club. I also think they are way off the mark regarding Keane, if you want to blame someone for our decline and relegation it has to be Paul Hirst. Things were mediocre with Jewel but it got even worse when Hirst arrived and started getting rid of our best players and swapping them with lower league ones.

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SouperJim added 18:14 - Nov 25 How quickly people forget. Wasting millions on Man U rejects who did very little here or after. Ostracising talented players like Counago rather than managing them. Forcing Walters out of the club and trying to brawl with him. Selling Jordan Rhodes for peanuts. Deriding our fanbase, snubbing our legends... Keane set us back 10 years. He should never ever feel welcome at Portman Road.

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Karlosfandangal added 18:16 - Nov 25 Good on you Keane…….i would react the same way. He was saying some very good things about Ipswich even though the haters where having a go What makes football fan believe they can swear and have a go at someone without any repercussions. Don’t like Keane or what he did to Ipswich Town
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blueshamrock added 18:59 - Nov 25 I'm no Roy Keane fan but Neil Finbow is known around Ipswich as a loudmouth and a bell end surely the club should be having a word with him to keep his cake hole shut as it does go against ground regulations to do what he did but doesn't suprise me one bit with the clown ,he'd fight with his own shadow.
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Daniel72 added 19:07 - Nov 25 Everyone needs to let off steam occasionally but this isn't an elegant exchange...
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IpswichT62OldBoy added 19:15 - Nov 25 Mr Keane is, I would suspect well able to take care of himself. I know nothing of Mr Finbow, or how his name is in the frame. Perhaps as a warm up for Fabio's expected fight at PR Mr Keane and Mr Finbow could engage in some old fashioned bare-knuckle work over 25 rounds.
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