Team-mates who disliked each other

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You obviously know this, but I'll mention it, maybe others will find it amusing. Effenberg cherished Matthäus so much that he even dedicated a chapter in his autobiography to him. It was called "What Lothar Matthäs knows about football" and consisted of a single blank page.
Burst out laughing when I first came to know of it :lol:
 

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Rhodri Giggs played non-league, so I think it’d be apt to add him into this thread with a certain other footballer.
 

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He probably tolerates Cole.

To be fair to Cole he seems like a quiet polite guy.
Cole is a good lad he just keeps himself to himself. If you talk down to him though he'll let you know how he feels!

But yeah Cole and Keane are still mates. This is confirmed in Cole's autobiography.
 

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Ruud and CR7 had an apparent bust up in training. And I'm sure I read somewhere Rooney and Jones did too.
yeah bust-ups in training are a common thing.

..Ruud apparently told Ronaldo to run off to his 'dad' (carlos queiroz) when they had a heated exchange...the insult was bad timing since Ronaldo's dad was very ill or had died recently...
 

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Keane seems to be friends with Gary Neville still. Every time they are on tele together Keane talks to him more like a friend than he does other colleagues on tele.
I get that, Gary was a top pro in fairness, was probably boring as feck in the dressing room and just got the job done which Keane would have approved of.
 

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Keane wasn’t really friends with most players but he and most of his teammates didn’t dislike each other either. I mean Keane and Becks for example couldn’t have been more different (off the pitch) but even they actually got on really well.
 

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John Fashanu and Lawrie Sanchez at Wimbledon:

I don’t like Sanch and he doesn’t like me. Hate is a strong word, but we tend to disagree. Anyway, Sanch and I had a disagreement in training. I told the boys, “I’m taking training this morning – everybody start jogging.” Sanch saw it in his wisdom not to comply and when I pointed my finger at him he went to slap me. Mistake, Sanch. So I said, “Listen, this has been going on too long. We’re two men, let’s sort it out, let’s take a walk. Lads, you carry on jogging.” So we walked, and for Sanch this was the walk of death because we were walking round the back of the bushes and I was gonna pummel him. I was thinking, what style should I use on him? Sanch was thinking, am I gonna get battered? Or maybe he was thinking, I’m gonna batter Fash. It was like something out of a film: two people who don’t like each other, and now they’re going to fight. Anyway, Sanch gave me a shot and, give him credit, it wasn’t a bad shot. But I thought, don’t hit Sanch, don’t mark his face, and my mind went back to when Muhammed Ali fought against the martial artist in New York, and the martial artist just kicked the back of his legs until it broke the tissues in his calves and he submitted. So I thought I’d teach Sanch a lesson and gave a sweep of the legs, but Sanch has calves like most people have thighs and he didn’t move. So I gave him another couple, but Sanch came back at me. So I thought, I’m gonna take this guy out, and I hit him with one of the best shots I’d been training with – BAM! Take that, Sanch! – right in the solar plexus, a shot that would supposedly knock a horse down. And still he stood there. Then Terry Burton came over to break us up.
 

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You obviously know this, but I'll mention it, maybe others will find it amusing. Effenberg cherished Matthäus so much that he even dedicated a chapter in his autobiography to him. It was called "What Lothar Matthäs knows about football" and consisted of a single blank page.
Thanks for elaborating- I was actually thinking for a lot of these that I didn’t know of.... it would be great to know some of the stories!
 

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I seem to remember hearing that Best/Law weren't on the best of terms with Sir Bobby. I think something about Sir Bobby not really appreciating Best's lifestyle off the pitch
 

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This is the first I've heard of that before.
IIRC it stems from the story where they had a punch up in the team hotel the night before a game, and Fergie came in and broke it up, gave them a right bollocking for waking Bobby Charlton up.
 

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IIRC it stems from the story where they had a punch up in the team hotel the night before a game, and Fergie came in and broke it up, gave them a right bollocking for waking Bobby Charlton up.
Wow thanks!
 

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Phil & Gary Neville. Gary wanted top bunk and Phil was having none of it. Tension ever since.
 

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Thanks for elaborating- I was actually thinking for a lot of these that I didn’t know of.... it would be great to know some of the stories!
Effenberg accused Matthäus of asking to be subbed just to get some applause in the last minutes of that 1999 final. It obviously wasn't the cause of the conflict between them, but it seemed to be the final straw. They're probably too feisty and too self-centered not to get in a fight with each other while condemned in a closed space.