Roy Keane cannot wait to renew his rivalry with Arsenal on Sunday.
Sunderland boss excited by Gunners trip
Roy Keane cannot wait to renew his rivalry with Arsenal on Sunday.
The Sunderland boss had some memorable showdowns with The Gunners during his time at Manchester United.
Keane is now due to face Arsenal for the first time as a manager and will come head-to-head with Arsene Wenger.
Relishing
"It was brilliant, absolutely brilliant," said Keane, thinking back to his clashes with Arsenal.
"Usually my preparation for a game on a Saturday if we were playing Arsenal would start on the previous Sunday.
"Your body just knew you were going to play Arsenal, just psychologically, your body would get ready for it.
"It was the same for all the players, and I am sure it was the same for the Arsenal players.
"Those games were brilliant, absolutely fantastic, the best. United against Arsenal - if you could go back for one game, then that would be the game.
"They were brilliant, brilliant rivalry, the rivalry between the fans, the players, the managers.
"Both teams were usually fighting it out for the title - it was fantastic. You would give anything to play in one of those games again.
"But stuff like that has gone - those rivalries have gone. They still want to beat each other, but there is not that real intensity that there was then."
