Is there anything better than seeing two players fight on a football pitch? The answer, obviously, is no. Sometimes tempers flare, and while commentators are obliged to say “we don’t want to see that in football”, we really, really do.
The abiding memory of the 2010 World Cup final is not Andres Iniesta’s winner, it’s Nigel de Jong’s kung-fu kick. Fans remember the 2006 final for Zinedine Zidane’s headbutt, not his first-half Panenka.
While the players try to ensure that the game is played and portrayed as clean as possible, tensions are so high at times that players from opposite teams, or even the same teams, tend to clash with each other.
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Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer
When a fight breaks out in the field it is never pleasant. When 22 men fight each other instead of playing the game, it is disappointing as a fan of the game. However, sometimes, two men can do the work of 22. In one of the most puzzling fights in football history, Lee Bowyer, and Kieron Dyer, both players of the same team, Newcastle United, started fighting in the middle of the pitch.
Back in 2005, during a Premier League match between Newcastle United and Aston Villa, the strangest of things occurred when two Newcastle players, Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer, started to brawl against each other. Dyer intentionally did not pass the ball to Bowyer during the match, as both got into a scuffle. Both the men were red-carded by the referee as Newcastle lost 0-3.
Manchester United and Arsenal
The Premier League is said to be the best league in the world because of how competitive football can be over there, but sometimes that competitive spirit can manifest itself in the wrong way. The 2003/04 game between Arsenal and Manchester United at Old Trafford is a good example of this.
Two of England’s best teams had been jostling for league supremacy for a good six years at that stage. United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy was involved in an incident that saw Gunners midfielder Patrick Vieira being given his marching orders for a second bookable offence when the Frenchman…
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