Sport 28-11-2000 "Kiss And Yell" At Elland Road who: Arsenal what: In the dock after aggression on and off the pitch where: Elland Road, LEEDS when: Sunday snippet: "Arsenal are on the verge of a double French disciplinary disaster," reports The Star`s Simon Mullock today. "Robert Pires could find himself in the dock for labelling Leeds boss David O`Leary a `WHORE` after Sunday`s 1-0 defeat at Elland Road." "Furious Pires called O`Leary a `putain` - French for whore - and had to be dragged away by team-mate Thierry Henry as he tried to square-up to the Leeds manager three times," reports Express Sport Live`s Matthew Dunn. The row started when Pires was brought down hard by a Leeds player near the dugout and O`Leary felt the Frenchman was over-acting. "When Pires ventured near the dugout again," says The Telegraph, "O`Leary blew him a kiss, told him to `**** off` and `get on with the game`. A fight allegedly broke out later when O`Leary asked for Pires to leave a room where he was conducting a radio interview. What`s more, after a match in which Arsenal earned themselves seven yellow cards and an automatic £25,000 FA fine, Patrick Vieira faces a "massive ban" after video evidence has been examined in support of claims that he headbutted Eirik Bakke and kicked Olivier Dacourt in the throat. Henry Winter in The Telegraph says that the FA don`t expect to take any action over the O`Leary-Pires incident but although "the storm between Arsenal and Leeds will doubtless blow over," he says, "neither club come out of the spat well, particularly not Arsenal who are going through a strangely worrying spell". [... more]

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