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.
