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By SAM BROOKES
Former Chelsea star Wayne Bridge has revealed how two of his former team-mates once settled their differences by fighting each other in training – and it didn’t end well for one of them.
Bridge spent six years at Chelsea between 2003 and 2009, and won four major trophies including the Premier League title.
It was a hugely successful period for the Blues, but that didn’t mean that the players always saw eye to eye.
Bridge has now recalled a time when Andriy Shevchenko and Tal Ben Haim came to blows in an incident that left the Israeli defender seeing stars after being on the receiving end of an ‘unbelievable’ combination of punches.
Speaking about fights between team-mates, Bridge told Joe Cole and Carlton Cole on The Dressing Room podcast: ‘The best one I’ve seen was Shevchenko and Tal Ben Haim.
‘Tal loved to smash people. I think there were a couple of incidents between them, I think Sheva gave him a warning. You know what Tal is like. Then there was another smash from Tal.
Wayne Bridge has recalled a fight he watched between two of his former Chelsea team-mates
He revealed how Andriy Shevchenko (wearing No 7) delivered an ‘unbelievable’ combination to knock out his team-mate
Tal Ben Haim (yellow bib) was on the receiving end and had to ‘swallow a bit of pride’ after the incident
‘They both basically ended up in each other’s faces. And the combo Sheva threw. Unbelievable. It was something like a jab, cross, hook, cross. Bang, bang, bang, bang! Game over. It was done mate.
‘You just move on then, it was sorted. Tal just had to swallow a bit of pride and move on. And just don’t go near Sheva again!’
Former striker Shevchenko arrived at Stamford Bridge in 2006 with a huge reputation after winning the Ballon d’Or while playing for AC Milan two years earlier.
He failed to live up to expectations as he returned to Milan in 2008 after scoring just 22 goals in 77 appearances for Chelsea.
But he left a lasting impression on his team-mates in another way thanks to his fighting skills.
Ben Haim’s time at Chelsea was also short-lived, as he only played 23 games in his solitary season after joining on a free transfer in 2007 before moving to Manchester City the following year.
