Former Liverpool defender Christian Ziege has hit out at his former manager Gerard Houllier.
"I didn't play enough and still don't know why," Ziege told the Mail .
"I scored a penalty in the shootout to win the League Cup but then didn't play in the FA or UEFA Cup finals.
"Gerard Houllier had a problem that he never bothered to explain. It made me think, 'If I'm a coach, I'll always tell my players the truth'."
Ziege joined Tottenham from Liverpool, and it was there where the left sided player suffered a near death experience whilst playing for the club.
After being sent off for the second time in four days during a 2-2 draw with Charlton at White Hart Lane, the now 47-year-old suffered a freak injury reaction that left him fighting for his life.
"I had a dead leg, no big deal," he said. "But my thigh was swelling and swelling. I learned later that the blood was trapped between two skins, it had nowhere to go.
"I did not want to go to hospital, not at Christmas, but my wife insisted. Thank God she did. By the time we arrived I was unconscious. There was pressure on everything inside my body, I was fighting for my life.
"They opened the leg and it went down like a balloon. But it left a big hole, something went completely wrong. I still suffer now, but I am also lucky. Another 30 minutes and they would have cut off my leg to save me.
"In this moment, you realise that life is so much more than just a football game."