ITV highlights showed the missing footage from the brawl.
Bridge knocked the ball out of Eboue’s hand, then Eboue slapped him on the back of the head – and the Chelsea left back went down like a sack of potatoes.
Eboue is the most hot-headed player to pull on the red shirt of Arsenal during the Wenger era.
Well, since John Hartson, who was sold PDQ. ( Pretty damn quick.)
No wonder Adebayor, red-carded by ref Howard Webb, was asking : What did I do ?
Why, oh,why, did Kolo Toure react like that to a shirt-tug by John Obi Mikel ? Did Mikel say something? Toure raced up to him in a threatening and violent manner.When has Toure ever lost his temper as badly as that ?
Then Lampard and Fabregas joined in, and Fabregas got Lampard in a kind of headlock, and wrestled with him, which was a very risky thing to do.
An ugly end to an entertaining and very close contest.