You may not need to be best of friends to click on a football pitch but it does help your side’s cause if you can at least leave the arguments and fighting to somewhere well away from matchday.
Sometimes, however, players just aren’t able to contain themselves and in the heat of the moment, they lash out at each other.
The causes vary, whether frustrations from the game, arguments over who takes penalties and even be long standing rows that are tipped over the edge in the heat of battle.
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One of the most infamous clashes came in 2005 when Newcastle team-mates Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer rumbled.
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Back in 1993, Liverpool's Bruce Grobbelaar and Steve McManaman pushed each other in the face after conceding.
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Leighton Baines and Kevin Mirallas fought over a penalty last year that Mirallas ended up missing.
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While at Zenit, Fernando Ricksen and Vladislav Rominov [seen here in more united times] came to blows in a 2007 friendly.
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Arsenal's Emmanuel Adebayor and Nicklas Bendtner embarrassingly feuded against arch-rivals Spurs in 2008.
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Jamie Carragher was held back by his team-mates after rowing with Alvaro Arbeloa in 2009.
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Stoke captain Andy Griffin and Ricardo Fuller memorably fell-out on the field in 2008.
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During a Champions League game in 1995, Blackburn Rovers' team-mates Graeme Le Saux and David Batty focused their anger on each other.
