I fought Gattuso to prove Chelsea worth - Cole - video Dailymotion

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.