NEWPORT County AFC manager Warren Feeney has hit back at Cameron McGeehan, insisting the Luton Town player should be fined for his incendiary comments about the Exiles.

McGeehan scored two penalties to earn the Hatters a 2-1 victory over County on Tuesday night at Kenilworth Road.

Feeney and his players were angry about an apparent dive by Luton’s Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu to win a second spot-kick deep into stoppage time.

But McGeehan, who converted the penalty to win the game in the 97th minute, said after the match: "Obviously they're angry. I think they cheat, in terms of how they play; they elbow you off the ball, stamp on your foot, they're big, nasty and they're cheats themselves."

He added: "They're a rough team and they foul a lot. If Pelly feels contact, he goes down and that's kind of what happened. Obviously they're aggrieved but they've not come here to play football. They're a horrible team and it's a good test to come through.

"They're sore losers," McGeehan said, adding: "They came with a game plan and it didn't work because we won the game.

“All they wanted to do was scrap it out, time-waste, kill the game and they're the type of team that give League Two a bad reputation because they just kill the game and play long.

“It's not nice but, obviously, they have to do what they have to do because they haven't got the quality of players that we have.”

Reacting to those comments, Feeney defended his players and said McGeehan should face censure from the FA.

“I was angry and incensed at the time and I still am but I don’t think we’ve done anything wrong,” said the Exiles boss.

“We were disappointed we didn’t at least get a point and it’s not that we got beat – it’s been taken away from us.

“That’s why we were frustrated and the other side were delighted.

“You saw their celebrations and we took that as a big compliment.

“I don’t talk about the opposition [but] the young lad [McGeehan] – I didn’t know he was playing, to be honest, until the penalties.

“I read some of his comments and I think he’s very naïve in what he’s saying.

“They’ve won the game and they should just be talking about winning the game, not about our players.

“He said they’ve got better players than us but we’ve got players who’ve played in the Champions League and Premier League – not players who have been at Premier League clubs and been released.”

McGeehan, who started as a youngster at Fulham was signed by Chelsea for £80,000 aged 10 but was released at 16.

He moved on to Norwich City but didn’t make the grade at Carrow Road either and signed for Luton last summer after loan spells with the Hatters and Cambridge United.

He scored twice on his Cambridge debut in a 4-0 win over Justin Edinburgh’s Exiles in January 2015.

Feeney added: “If he thinks we’ve come and parked the bus then he should look at the stats.

“They had more shots on target but two of those were penalties.

“We had more possession, more corners and I think it’s a wee bit of immaturity from him.

“He’s going to learn, he’s a young boy and he’ll probably learn the hard way now because if I’m a player in the opposition I’d have fire in my belly straight away with the comments he’s come out with.

“Players talk, they know each other and straight away I think he’s showed his hand a little bit.

“I don’t think [Luton boss] Nathan [Jones] will be too pleased because I can see the FA throwing the book at him.

“To call someone a cheat is a strong word.

“I don’t think our players cheated. Our players are honest and they want to win and I think it’s a good thing to have.

You can’t call people cheats. I called the referee a cheat [at Leyton Orient in January] and I got banned for it and I regretted it.”

Feeney says he will be surprised if he gets a ban for his actions on Tuesday.

“You have freedom of speech and I think if you look at my comments I didn’t swear at the ref,” he said.

“The FA can look at it if they want but I don’t think I was out of order in what I said there.

“I went in politely and was told to see him half an hour after the whistle and he didn’t let me in for 42 minutes.

“I went in to ask a question but I still didn’t really get a firm answer of what I wanted.

“In his report there’s nothing that I’ve done wrong. I’m being honest and I would hold my hands up.

“I probably learned from last time.

“I was respectful to him and the fourth official and the assessor was in there. I wasn’t nasty to him. It was just frustration because it was a massive call that he made and I still standby it that he’s got it wrong.”