ROY Keane has admitted he treated Crystal Palace defender Damien Delaney poorly when they worked together at Ipswich - because the pair are from the same part of Ireland.
Rumours abounded at the time they worked together at Portman Road that Keane and Delaney didn't see eye to eye, with reports the pair even engaged in a training ground scuffle at one point.
In a typically honest extract from his new autobiography, Keane admits he regrets the way he treated the centre back, now enjoying a late career renaissance at Selhurst Park.
He wrote: "Damien Delaney came in and did OK. I was hard on him, probably because I knew him and he was from Cork.
"I went over the top."
