Is there anything better than seeing two team-mates 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.
Here are some memorable football bust-ups you just have to laugh about.
Sane & Mane
The two forwards were once rivals as Liverpool and Man City slugged it out for Premier League titles, but you’d have thought that would be all water under the bridge now that they’re team-mates at Bayern Munich. Think again.
Sky Germany report that Mane was so incensed by something Sane did during Bayern’s 3-0 defeat to Manchester City that he gave him a slap in the dressing room after the match. The Germany international has since been spotted with a bust lip and Mane is expected to apologise to the rest of the Bayern squad as a result.
Watch this result to see how Thomas Tuchel responds.
🚨| Sadio Mané and Leroy Sané have apologised to their team-mates following their altercation in Manchester in Bayern Munich training today. pic.twitter.com/WMBmOLlVVx
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) April 13, 2023
Ibrahimovic & Onyewu
Ibrahimovic has form for getting stuck into his team-mates, threatening to break Rafael van der Vaart’s legs at Ajax and punching Jonathan Zebina in the face at Juventus.
But his most spectacular tear up came at AC Milan, where he clashed with one-time Newcastle United loanee Oguchi Onyewu.
“I head-butted him, and we flew at each other,” Ibrahimovic wrote in his autobiography.
“We wanted to tear each other limb from limb. It was brutal. We were rolling around, punching and kneeing each other. We were crazy and furious — it was like life and death.”
Batty & Le Saux
Blackburn had endured a dismal Champions League campaign after winning the Premier League and travelled to Spartak Moscow on matchday five still searching for their first win of the group stage.
They unravelled in Russia, losing 3-0, with David Batty and Graeme Le Saux coming to blows.
“Before the match I told my players they will be playing against 11 guys ready to fight for each other for 90 minutes… not with each other,” Spartak coach Oleg Romantsev quipped afterwards.
Graeme Le Saux vs David Batty, 1995.pic.twitter.com/uLikwFakBr
— 90s Football (@90sfootball) April 23, 2022
Drinkwater & Jota
You wouldn’t expect a training session between players not involved with the first-team squad to be particularly…
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