Andy Carroll v Charles N'Zogbia and the Top 10 team-mate brawls

Newcastle boss Joe Kinnear had to call off a training session yesterday after Andy Carroll and Charles N'Zogbia traded blows , but it's not the first time a sportsman has had a pop at a team-mate rather than the opposition. Mirror.co.uk counts down some of our favourite team-mate bust ups

10) Shoaib Akhtar v Mohammad Asif
Fast bowler Akhtar was kicked out of Pakistan's world Twenty20 squad last year after admitting hitting Asif with a cricket bat.

The man nicknamed the Rawalpindi Express had apparently been boasting about his greatness and did not take it too kindly when Asif mocked him.

A swipe with a bat left Asif with a bruised thigh - and Akhtar with an early plane ticket home.

9) Josh Lewsey v Danny Cipriani

Lewsey knocked out England pin-up Cipriani during a Wasps training session in October.

The World Cup winner criticised his young team mate for missing a few tackles and it escalated into a row - with Lewsey landing a right hook which left Cipriani needing smelling salts.

8) Mike Flanagan v Derek Hales
Unlike Batty and Le Saux, both the Charlton players were sent off after slugging it out in a 1979 FA Cup third round match against Maidstone.

They went at it after an attack broke down five minutes from time, and shocked manager Andy Nelson blasted: "I've never seen anything like it on a football pitch."

Flanagan was exonerated, Hales sacked but later reinstated after an appeal. But the feud never died away - and five years later, back at Charlton, Hales threatened to quit the club if they signed Flanagan again.

7) Graeme Le Saux v David Batty
It took only four minutes for Le Saux and Batty to lose the plot in Moscow in a European Cup game after a touchline collision.

Le Saux produced a meaty left hook on Batty, breaking his hand in the process then hit out at Tim Sherwood when he stepped in to try to separate the pair.

Another heated row broke out later on, between Alan Shearer and Colin Hendry. And Rovers lost 3-0 to complete a miserable night.

6) Emmanuel Adebayor v Nicklas Bendtner
Things were already not going well for Bendtner - Arsenal were losing 4-1 to Tottenham and about to be dumped out of the Carling Cup, with one of Spurs' goals a header from Bendtner into his own net.

Then seven minutes from time his strike partner head butted him. Bendtner was left with a bloody nose and ref Howard Webb and skipper William Gallas had to separate the pair.

5) Bruce Grobbelaar v Steve McManaman
A Merseyside derby in 1993 and Grobbelaar is unimpressed by a McManaman clearance, giving him an earful of abuse.

But the goalkeeper is even less impressed when the young winger has a go back and goes for the throat. Presumably to shut his team mate up.

4) Craig Bellamy v John Arne Riise
In the run-up to Liverpool's Champions League clash in Barcelona last year, Bellamy went after Riise with a golf club following a night out.

The Welshman was fined two weeks' wages - £80,000 - and Rafa Benitez sold him in the summer.

They did get past Barcelona and all the way to the final before that, mind you. The scorers at the Nou Camp? Riise and Bellamy of course, so it was hugs all round afterwards.

3) Freddie Ljungberg v Olof Mellberg
It usually seems to be the Dutch who are fighting at the World Cup, but in 2002 the Swedes got in on the act.

Freddie Ljungberg, then of Arsenal, took exception to Olof Mellberg's late tackle in training and grabbed him by the throat.

He later brushed off the incident, saying: "Things like that happen, it's nothing to worry about."

2) Kieron Dyer v Lee Bowyer
In 2005 it took Aston Villa's Gareth Barry to separate the two warring Newcastle team mates, who started trading punches with their team 3-0 down.

They later appeared alongside manager Graeme Souness to say sorry for their behaviour. They did not apologise to each other at the time but were later reunited at West Ham.

1) John Hartson v Eyal Berkovic
The Daily Mirror revealed another training ground bust-up back in October 1998, when Hartson launched an X-rated training ground attack on Berkovic, the Welshman kicking his Israeli team mate in the head.

Berkovic, who had been involved in an on-pitch scuffle with John Moncur the season before, blasted the striker, telling the Mirror: "If my head was a ball it would have been in the top corner of the net."

Hartson became the first player the FA charged with misconduct over a training field incident.

And if you haven't had enough of fighting team mates, check out this top 10, which surely goes to show it's the Americans who really know how to go at it with a team mate...

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