Keane marks front-line return by blasting former team-mates

ROY KEANE roared back into front-line management with Ipswich Town yesterday and wasted no time in launching a typically stinging attack on those who doubted he would ever return.

Keane, who ended his five-month exile from football by signing a wo-year contract with the Championship club, reserved his most spiteful barbs for his former Republic of Ireland colleague Tony Cascarino, a particularly out-spoken sceptic, although more surprising was his vicious appraisal of his former Manchester United team-mates Mark Hughes and Steve Bruce who, he claimed, had “achieved nothing” in management.

“People say that the Manchester United side I played in has produced great managers but who are they?” Keane asked.