Arsenal icon Fabregas was hauled in to police station when he was ‘young and stupid’ after leaving cyclist bloodied

CESC FABREGAS was taken to a police station after leaving a cyclist unconcious and bloodied after an accident.

The former Arsenal and Chelsea midfielder was on duty with Spain at the 2006 World Cup at the time of the incident.

And he was taken to a police station along with some legends of the game after accidentally injuring a cyclist.

Fabregas and his team-mates were forced to pay a fine over the mishap, which occurred when they were about to enter a Japanese restaurant in Germany.

The 37-year-old shared the story on the Rest is Football podcast.

He said: “In Germany at the World Cup we played the first game. Luis Aragones said okay you have the night to go out.

“So with [Carles] Puyol, [Andres] Iniesta, Xavi and Luis Garcia we decided to have a night out, we went to a Japanese restaurant that we all loved at the time.

“We took a big Range Rover to take all of us there and the driver dropped us just in front of the restaurant. It was not really a parking space but they just drop you on the side.

“I don’t really look when they drop me on the side, maybe I should I was obviously mistaken 100 per cent but I didn’t, I just opened my door and there was a cyclist going fast and he flew and you feel the contact of the cyclist with the door.

“I didn’t know what to do. You see a cyclist on the floor unconscious, bleeding, thank God he had a helmet. Everyone there was worrying what was happening, Luis Garcia was touching his blood trying to clean him with his hands.

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“Then the police comes and it was a bit stupid, I was young. ‘Who was it that opened the door?’ And me joking I was so young and stupid: ‘Puyol! Puyol’ I was pointing at Puyol and he wanted to kill me.

“We had to go to the police station, we stayed there three hours we had to pay for a fine. We went back to the hotel to sleep a little bit worried and at eight o’clock in the morning there was a knock on the door, it was Luis Aragones.

“I panicked because I sensed something is wrong. He said ‘you know what the cyclist was drunk…these things happen, if I told you the things I’ve done in my past, you wouldn’t worry at all’. The cyclist was okay thank God.”

Fabregas helped Spain top their group at the 2006 World Cup with wins over Ukraine, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia.

But a poor performance saw them knocked out in the next round, losing 3-1 to France, which piled pressure on Aragones until he redeemed himself by winning Euro 2008.

Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk