Former Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas has revealed a furous Roy Keane laid into team-mate Gerard Pique for being friends with him after catching him with a challenge in the 2005 FA Cup final.
The Spaniard, then 18, was playing in his first FA Cup final with the Gunners and helped the team lift the trophy as they won on penalties against Manchester United in just his second season in north London.
But while he was catching the eye for Arsenal, he scored no points with Keane after going into a 50/50 with him and leaving something on the Red Devils star. He was left swearing and shouting at defender Pique, who came through Barcelona's La Masia academy alongside Fabregas.
He told the Telegraph: 'Gerard Pique, who was at Manchester United then, told me about this afterwards and I never knew about it.
'He told me that me and Roy went into a challenge, which I remember. It was 50/50 and I must have caught him with my knee in his quad. And I got him a little bit.
'At half-time, he went to Pique and started shouting at him because he knew we were friends. A bit of swearing. I can't say the exact words but it was fun.'
While it was an exciting moment for Fabregas to enjoy some silverware so early into his Gunners career, it proved to be his first and last trophy with the club as they endured a miserable drought before his return to Barcelona in 2011.
But he said Arsene Wenger's focus towards breeding through youth stars and bad luck with injuries were to blame for their failure to recapture success.
'Probably after 2008 when everybody left, the club decided to go with younger prospects, giving chances to a very young team. It needed a little bit more time and there were a lot of injuries in key moments of the season and a lot of things happened, so we never hit the heights we wanted.'
His old club Arsenal will play against his former employers Chelsea in the FA Cup final on Saturday. He raised eyebrows by joining the Gunners' rivals in 2014, but insisted the Gunners had the option to bring him back and didn't take it.
'I always believe that things happen for a reason and in this case, in theory, it was not supposed to happen, me joining Chelsea,' said the Spaniard, who now plies his trade at Monaco. He claimed he was won over by then Blues boss Jose Moruinho.
'When I told my agent I wanted to go back to the Premier League, I thought it was Arsenal. But it didn't happen. Arsenal had the option but they didn't take it, so we had to find other solutions and that's when we met Jose.
'I listened to Jose because of who he is and because of the respect I had for him, and I ended up loving his words, his ideas, his future at Chelsea, what he wanted from me.'
Fabregas said he is 'very happy' he moved to Stamford Bridge after winning two Premier League titles, the FA Cup and League Cup during his time there.