10@10: Arsene Wenger, Alex Fergsuon, Joe Kinnear and the top 10 foul-mouthed football boss outbursts - WARNING contains very bad language!

Arsene Wenger: intelligent, urbane, successful, and now we know he has a potty mouth that would shame a docker. But his four-letter rant about his players worrying about the World Cup is far from the first time a boss has lost it - as our top 10 proves:

WARNING: contains very bad language indeed.

10) Fergie v The Man From Sky
After a typically theatrical tumble from Cristiano Ronaldo helped beat his team in December 2006, Middlesbrough's Gareth Southgate labelled the winger a serial diver. Ronaldo, naturally disagreed.

But when Sky's Geoff Shreeves asked his manager for his views, all hell broke loose. Here's a transcript:

Shreeves: I asked him…
Ferguson: F***ing (inaudible) bastard.
Shreeves: Don't talk to me like that.
Ferguson: F**k off to you.
Shreeves: Don't talk to me like that. Don't even think about it.
Ferguson: Don't you think about it, you ****. F**k off. Right?
Shreeves: Listen, are you going to do the interview in a professional manner or not? Do you want to do it or not?
Ferguson: You f*****g be professional. You be professional. You're the one.
Shreeves: I'm entitled to ask… Cristiano gave the right answer.
Ferguson: F***ing hell with your answers.
Shreeves: Don't talk to me like that. Go away. If you want to behave civilly, fine. Don't talk to me like that.
Ferguson: F**k off. (door slams)

9) Graham Taylor v Rob Shepherd
It was worth England missing out on the 1994 World Cup finals just to see The Impossible Job, the peerless document of Graham Taylor's ridiculous, doomed campaign. The Turnip's rant at that linesman inn the fateful Holland match is famous. But this restrained tirade at Today hack Rob Shepherd (now at the News Of The World) is even better.

8) Giovanni Trapattoni
We don't even know what Trap is going on about here given that the subtitles are so poor but his rant makes our list because the fact he is shouting very loudly in German, coupled with his impassioned arm gestures are spookily reminiscent of a former German leader...

7) Brian Clough v Elton Welsby
Having recently fallen foul of the great man, ITV reporter Elton Welsby decided to tread carefully when he was sent to cover Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest in one of ITV's live games of the late 1980s.

Doing a live piece to camera following the match, Welsbt must have been a relieved man when he heard the familiar nasal tones over his shoulder. "Young Welsby," Clough announced. "Shithouse." Then he walked off.

6) Kevin Keegan vs sanity
Go on, it's worth just one more look...

5) "No wonder he's in the f****** reserves!"
...And so is this all-time classic

4) Fergie defends Veron
Questions about a reported airport bust-up between Juan Sebastian Veron and Manchester United team-mates following their 2003 Champions League semi-final exit at Bayer Leverkusen didn't go down well with Sir Alex Ferguson.

"People are always going on about f****** Veron. You tell me, what's wrong with Veron?" fumed Fergie.

"What's this thing about fights and all the rest of this s***? It's absolute nonsense, you know it's nonsense. Absolute lies. On you go. I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f****** idiots."

3) Neil Warnock v the Terriers
It's halftime in a 1995 match between Shrewsbury and Huddersfield Town, managed by one Neil Warnock. The young manager calms down with a cup of tea in the showers, takes off his sweatshirt and launches into a fearful monstering of his team which includes the brilliantly bewildering phrase "You're in f***ing Latvia!"

2) "And you can bring your dinner!"
Managerial meltdowns don't come finer than this sensational half-time outburst from Leyton Orient boss John Sitton, during which he sacks a friend, challenges other players to a fight and issues a memorable threat…

1) Joe the volcano
The absolute top of the tree with no question whatsoever. After taking the Newcastle United manager's job last October, Kinnear took exception to what some journalists had written about him and chose to vent his spleen in his first press conference.

Hi opening gambit was: "Which one is (Daily Mirror journalist) Simon Bird? You're a ****." A further 51 swear words followed in the five minute press conference. Listen to the full unedited rant below - contains VERY strong language so not for the faint hearted.



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