Andy Cole has revealed he walked out on Newcastle United because Kevin Keegan used some 'bad industrial language' in a heated row between the pair.
Cole and Keegan fell out back in October, 1993 when the Magpies were preparing for a League Cup tie against Wimbledon. Newcastle suffered a defeat at Southampton just a few days earlier and Cole was unhappy with how Keegan had hammered friend Lee Clark following the midfielder's furious reaction to being substituted that afternoon.
When Newcastle were training in the capital a few days later, ahead of the trip to Selhurst Park, Keegan had to stop the session because, in his own words, a tired Cole was 'so uninterested'. Keegan later wrote in his book that he told his star striker: "'If that's the best you can offer, you might as well eff off.' Except I probably didn't put it as politely as that." Whatever was said, exactly, Cole did what his manager told him to.
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"I don't like people when they try and disrespect me," he told Reggae Mylitis. "The manager tried to use some bad industrial language on me at one stage so I had to tell him about himself and then I walked out.
"I walked out on the football club due to the fact I didn't like the way the manager tried to talk to me. I always used to tell people from once my father can't talk to me like that, I can't make anybody talk to me like that.
"We had a little falling out. We patched things up to a certain extent but not to where Kevin was the same personality that he was previously."
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