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Daily Mirror
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Tom Blow

Liverpool star left "traumatised" by El-Hadji Diouf's X-rated rant at Steven Gerrard

Football is not the faint-hearted... just ask former Liverpool star Florent Sinama Pongolle.

The one-cap France international witnessed plenty of ups and downs during his professional career, representing the likes of Atletico Madrid, Sporting Lisbon and Dundee United. Yet one experience that has stayed with him unfolded on Merseyside between legendary Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard and (not so legendary) winger El-Hadji Diouf.

Gerrard and Diouf didn't see eye to eye during the latter's two-year spell at Anfield, with the Englishman even claiming the Senegalese star "did not care about football and about Liverpool" in an autobiography. So, it's unsurprising they once had a huge row.

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