Keane not happy with Jones call up
Trinidad Gaurdian
SUNDERLAND manager Roy Keane could be heading for another row with Fifa vice-president and T&T Football Federation special advisor Jack Warner after striker Kenwyne Jones was called up for international duty with T& T.
Jones, who was injured during T&T's friendly against England in June, missed Saturday's defeat to Portsmouth after injuring the same knee in training on Friday.
However, he has been included in an 18-man squad along with 10 other overseas-based players to face Cuba in a World Cup qualifier on November 19, apparently at his own request.
T&T only needs a draw to join group leaders USA in the Concacaf six-team final round tournament from where the top three teams will qualify for South Africa 2010.
In September, Keane called Warner, who is also Concacaf president, "a clown" after a row over Dwight Yorke's withdrawal from a squad and blasted his failure to apologise for Jones' injury.
Warner, who retaliated by calling Keane "disrespectful", has insisted Jones would be well looked after.
Warner told the T&TFF's official website: "We are happy to have him back in the team.
"At first he was not called into the squad because of the fact that he was only now coming back from injury and we all know how difficult it can be for a player to get back to his accustomed place in the starting team for a club.
"We felt that it would serve him well to allow him that time.
"But when he indicated that he wanted to make a return for the Cuba game, we thought about it with manager Francisco Maturana and we went ahead with the invitation.
"It will give him a chance to fit back into the team before the critical matches we should have coming up next year, once of course we seal our spot with a positive result against Cuba."
