Idrissa Gueye turned simply the third Premier League participant to be despatched off for combating his personal team-mate throughout Everton’s 1-0 win over Manchester United on Monday.
The midfielder was proven a crimson card within the thirteenth minute for slapping Everton centre-back Michael Keane because the pair clashed at Old Trafford.
Referee Tony Harrington confirmed Gueye a straight crimson card for violent conduct.
Gueye later apologised, whereas Everton rallied to seal a well-known 1-0 victory.
Here, Standard Sport ranks the most important on-pitch bust-ups through the years…
1 – Newcastle’s Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer, 2005
Perhaps essentially the most notorious coming collectively between two team-mates, Lee Bowyer and Kieran Dyer had been each despatched off for combating throughout Newcastle’s 3-0 defeat to Aston Villa in 2005.
Newcastle had already been decreased to 10 males when the pair exchanged punches in a heated brawl that finally needed to be damaged up by Villa midfielder Gareth Barry and their Newcastle team-mates.
Dyer was handed a three-game suspension and Bowyer was given a seven-game suspension.
each sheepishly apologised for his or her actions.
2 – Blackburn’s David Batty and Graeme Le Saux, 1995
Blackburn’s solely marketing campaign within the Champions League is unfortunately greatest remembered for Graeme Le Saux’s punch on team-mate David Batty simply 4 minutes right into a 3-0 defeat to Spartak Moscow.
On a bitterly chilly night in Russia, the pair ran for a similar ball on the left-hand touchline and received in one another’s approach.
Play continued, however when the digicam panned again, the 2 gamers had been at one another’s throats, with Le Saux throwing a left-handed punch in Batty’s path.
Le Saux would later admit he broke his hand on account of the punch.
4) Liverpool’s Bruce Grobbelaar and Steve McManaman, 1993
Steve McManaman felt the total power of Bruce Grobbelaar’s fury throughout a Merseyside Derby in 1993.
McManaman’s weak clearance had led to Everton opening the scoring from a nook, and a livid Grobbelaar couldn’t comprise his anger, charging off his line to push the younger Liverpool winger within the face.
Neither participant was despatched off however Liverpool went on to lose 2-0, with the altercation reportedly persevering with within the dressing room.
4 – Stoke’s Ricardo Fuller and Andy Griffin, 2008
Everything gave the impression to be going to plan for newly promoted Stoke, who had been 1-0 up away to West Ham of their debut Premier League marketing campaign.
That was till captain Andy Griffin slipped to permit Carlton Cole to equalise.
Griffin’s mistake prompted an indignant response from striker Riccardo Fuller, who slapped his captain earlier than being despatched off.
With Stoke all the way down to 10 males, they conceded a late winner to compound an embarrassing afternoon.
