Angry Delaney tells Keane to mind his own business

Roy Keane has been handed a dose of his own medicine via a stinging rebuke from the Football Association of Ireland chief executive John Delaney. Keane has often been critical of the FAI and its methods, and in particular recently slated the Association for doing "everything backwards".

Delaney, however, feels that by attracting Giovanni Trapattoni as Republic manager last week, Sunderland's boss Keane can have no grounds to now point an accusing finger. And Delaney has decided to snap back at Keane in a bout of public anger.

"The only criticism I'd have of Sunderland would be their manager giving his weekly report about Irish football, cork hurling and all that he does," said Delaney. "We don't comment on the players he's bought or where they are in the league. So I think he should get on with managing Sunderland and stop commenting on a regular basis about the FAI.

"He looks very good on deflecting from his own issues. I think what he should do is concentrate on what he has to do. If anything we have been supportive of what they [Sunderland] are doing with the Irish connection in that regard. From my point of view he should get on with his job."

Delaney, speaking in the Irish Sunday Mirror, added: "The inaccuracies that come out from him are what bothers me, like last week he said we cut corners. But Liam Miller was injured [in the friendly defeat] against Brazil, and he should remember that only two or three countries insure their players, and we're one of them. So we do our business properly in that regard. It's the constant looking to the past and not understanding what we're about today. That's one simple example of where he gets it wrong."