Joe Cole admits the signing of Shaun Wright-Phillips caused him to spark a brawl with Milan players out of frustration
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00:00We'd won the league and it was me, Robin and Duff rotating.
00:03I ended up playing more games than Robin and Duff.
00:05So I found myself by the end of the season playing all the big games in the Champions League.
00:09And I'm thinking, really pleasing myself.
00:11I was on holiday in Barbados, took all the family,
00:14I think I've cracked it, just won the league sitting there.
00:16And I'm picking up the paper and I'm playing on the right wing
00:19and I just see your face, the sign and I'm thinking,
00:22oh, I can literally remember.
00:24I'm two weeks into my holiday and I'm thinking, oh no, not another one.
00:27So I literally put the paper down.
00:30I'm like, where's the gym? I went to the gym.
00:32Do you remember the game we played in America against AC Milan,
00:34the friendly where it all kicked off?
00:36It was like the last preseason game and we were playing the great AC Milan side
00:40with Seedorf and Pirlo and Cafu.
00:42You started and you played really well.
00:45And I come on for the second half and thinking, right, I've got to play really well.
00:48And I wasn't playing well and I was getting frustrated.
00:51The ball's gone near the bench and Cafu was there and I just two-footed him,
00:55just friendly, like the whole place went off.
00:59So it was your fault there was a brawl?
01:00Yeah, Nesta, Gattuso's big heads in my face.
01:03I'm like, my hair was, I had hair at the time, hair was everywhere.
01:06I'm like, like that.
01:08And then the ref's like, I'm going to send you off.
01:11And then we got calmed down and then the game went on five minutes later
01:14and Gattuso's just absolutely cleaned me out.
01:17I didn't know where I was.
01:17I didn't know what continent I was in.
01:19He just started laughing and he got sent off.
01:21The Italians were thinking, what is he doing?
01:24Like, I could have hurt him.
01:25That was your pressure, right?
01:26But I was like, because they've shown him.