Warner calls for respect

Fifa executive committee member recalls Keane row

Last updated: 19th November 2008  

Warner calls for respect

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Concacaf president Jack Warner has accused English clubs of displaying a lack of respect towards football in the Caribbean.

The Football Association sent England to play Trinidad & Tobago in the summer, but Warner - a member of the Fifa executive committee - still believes his region is not taken seriously.

Warner suffered a difference of opinion with Sunderland manager Roy Keane over the release of Dwight Yorke for a friendly with the United States.

Keane described Warner - who could prove a vital figure if England are to win the right to host the 2018 World Cup because the Concacaf region hold three of the 24 votes - 'a clown'.

And the row with Keane appears to be well remembered by Warner, who told The Voice: "This region does not get much respect.

"English clubs do not respect us when we ask for our own players. They consider us to be irritants at best.

"I had a run-in with the guy from Sunderland (manager Roy Keane) and I did not want to go down to his level. But it showed me the sort of views that they have about us."