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Robert Hynes

Giovanni Trapattoni's four-word response to Keith Treacy after naked photo was leaked online

Giovanni Trapattoni had a blunt reaction to Keith Treacy after a naked photo of the former Republic of Ireland international was leaked online.

The snap was leaked in 2011 when the Dubliner, at the time on the books at Burnley, was on international duty and his Twitter account was hacked.

Speaking about the photo being leaked on Under The Cosh, Treacy said: "I was in a training camp for Ireland at the time and I came down to go on the bus training and a couple of the lads were sniggering at me.

"I was thinking what the f*** are they sniggering at? Then I seen it...'Irish star's Twitter gets hacked... very hacked'.

"And that was it. I had me arsehole out all over the place."

He added: "It got into the wrong hands and made it into the paper, but you live and learn. I don't do those things anymore.

"Eddie Howe (manager of Burnley at the time) rang me. I was lying in the bath and my phone rang.

"He said 'take the picture down, take the picture down'. I said 'do you really think I have access to that and I haven't done that yet?'

Keith Treacy (Inpho)

"I think someone from the club got onto it and it got taken down eventually. I had 2.500 followers and within five minutes of that thing being up I had 6,000."

Needless to say, Trapattoni wasn't impressed.

Treacy explained: "As I came down in the lift, you go left or right, Trapattoni would be waiting there for us all to get on the bus and then he'd come on. He'd be having his cup of coffee and sitting there with the f***ing paper and there's me.

"He collared me and he just said 'you must do better'. That was it."]

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