DIDIER DROGBA and ex-Tottenham striker Mido caused their own turbulence after brawling midway through a flight when a prank backfired.
Chelsea legend Drogba and Egypt international Mido both played for Marseille during the 2003-04 campaign.
Drogba and Mido were team-mates at MarseilleCredit: Empics
The two strikers helped the French club reach the UEFA Cup final that season.
But Jose Anigo, Marseille’s coach at the time, revealed how tensions boiled over between the pair on a flight back from a game.
Marseille-born Anigo now works as Nottingham Forest’s head of international recruitment.
Reported by RMC Sport, the 59-year-old said: “There was an altercation between Drogba and Mido on board a plane.
“We were coming back from a European tie. Mido used to play some bizarre jokes.
“He played one on the stewardess, and Didier didn’t appreciate it.
“He remonstrated with Mido, and things became very heated between the two of them.
“We were up in the air, and I can tell you the plane shook! They caused turbulence.
“They were a couple of heavyweights. Normally they were friends, but at that point tempers flared between them.”
Anigo also lifted the lid on his problems in dealing with hot-headed striker Mido.
He added: “He lived his life as a professional footballer as he wanted.
“He had a bad lifestyle, he was overweight and didn’t always turn up on time.
Mido was often on the wrong end of controversyCredit: Empics
“He wasn’t an unpleasant person, in fact he was a smiley guy, but the moment he was left out of the team he’d be in my office with a tense attitude.
“In face-to-face meetings he was often the absolute limit.”
Mido, 37, went on to play for Middlesbrough, Wigan, West Ham and Barnsley after ending his two-year Spurs stay in 2007.
The duo came up against each other in the Premier LeagueCredit: PA:Press Association
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
