#2 Steve Mcmanaman vs Bruce Grobbelaar (Liverpool)
Call it derby fever or pure competitiveness, Liverpool stopper Grobbelaar was livid with a young Steve Mcmanaman, whose failure to clear a ball led to an Everton goal and saw them leading 1-0 at Anfield.
Grobbelaar, ran to the then 19 year old Mcmanaman and grabbed him by his throat. Later on, he went on to reveal that he didn’t intend to target the teenager but wanted to Mark Walters. But he chose to stay away from doing so due to racial abuse implications that would’ve ensued if he had done so.
He also said this about the incident:
“I was actually after the person who turned his back on the ball [Mark Walters] and I realised that, if I did something, then people would say I was racist. So I turned to Steve McManaman, who’s the same colour as me, and I shouted, “Put it away, not back into play!” And that was that. So I found Mark in the bath after the game and I took his hair and put it under the bath water and I sat on his head. That’s the person that I was after in the first place.”