O’Neill to tackle McClean over Twitter rant

Sunderland winger James McClean will be told to take greater responsibility for his career after risking his international future in a Twitter outburst.

The 23-year-old Republic of Ireland international incurred the wrath of his team-mates last week when he hit out at manager Giovanni Trapattoni’s decision to leave him sitting on the bench during his country’s 2-1 World Cup qualifier victory in Kazakhstan on the social networking site.

He has since issued an apology to both the 73-year-old Italian and the rest of the Republic squad and closed down his Twitter account — and played the final 30 minutes of Tuesday night’s impressive 4-1 friendly victory over Oman at Craven Cottage.