‘Psychopathic’ Arsenal Invincible ‘would have been a criminal if it weren’t for football’, jokes former team-mate [Video]

EMMANUEL PETIT claims football “saved” fellow Arsenal legend Martin Keown from a life of crime.

Petit revealed the ex-hardman “reminded me of psychopaths” but controlled his behaviour as he knew he was being watched on TV.

Martin Keown famously confronted Man Utd’s Ruud Van NistelrooyCredit: Getty

Emmanuel Petit says he and fellow midfielder Patrick Vieira were ‘so happy’ to have Keown playing behind themCredit: Action Images – Reuters

Keown, 57, now a BBC and BT Sport pundit, won the last of his three Premier League titles with the Gunners as one of the 2003-4 “Invincibles”.

But French World Cup winner Petit reckons only the discipline of sport kept the former England centre-back on the straight and narrow.

The ex-midfielder, 53, told talkSPORT: “I always told him that football saved his life. Otherwise he would have been a criminal.

“You know, the rules on the pitch… the fact that he could fight on the pitch, but with referees, things …

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