EPL: Ljungberg slams Martin Keown for apologizing to Nistelrooy

Former Arsenal midfielder, Freddie Ljungberg, has slammed Martin Keown for apologizing to Manchester United legend Ruud van Nistelrooy.

Keown’s apology is coming over 20 years after his epic spat with the Dutchman within the Premier League.

The notorious episode between Arsenal and Manchester United happened in 2003 at Previous Trafford.

The sport erupted into chaos when Van Nistelrooy missed an essential penalty and Keown leaped at him, triggering a brawl that noticed gamers of each groups closely concerned.

The sport led to a 0-0 draw, and Nistelrooy’s penalty miss was essential to the Gunners who had been on an unbeaten, title-winning marketing campaign underneath Arsene Wenger.

When Keown and Nistelrooy renewed their acquaintances this 12 months, the previous defensive stalwart determined to apologize.

Throughout a TNT Sports activities broadcast, Keown instructed Nistelrooy, in keeping with SPORTbible: “Apologies for all the shenanigans that went on again within the day.”

Nistelrooy responded, “What occurs on the pitch stays on the pitch…”

Ljungberg, who witnessed the alternate, mentioned afterwards, “I’ve seen a few of your interviews afterwards and also you apologise. I might have by no means apologised for what occurred.

“While you did that, by the way in which, I felt – I by no means mentioned this on TV – however that we stood up for ourselves.

“Lots of people within the media had been like: ‘We had been weak, we might get bullied, we had been this, we had been that, we’re not sturdy sufficient.’ And that day, even when it didn’t look good, I felt inside that sure, that group, we don’t get bullied. And that’s what everybody in England mentioned: ‘Simply kick them and they’ll fall.’ So no.”