Inside Newcastle's dressing room after Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer on-pitch scrap
dailystar.co.ukNewcastle United team-mates Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer engaged in a remarkable fist fight with each other on the pitch indicated to the world this was a club in dire straits.On April 2, 2005 at Villa Park, an extraordinary fight between two team-mates stunned English football into silence.
There had been scuffles and disagreements between players before, but rarely had they contained this level of anger and spite.
As it was later revealed, the incident had been bubbling underneath the surface for some time. A training ground argument between Dyer and Bowyer had lit the fuse — and it was just a matter of time before the explosion.
Newcastle wore the look of a team in poor form that had no idea on how to turn things around. They were already 3-0 and a man down to Aston Villa after Steven Taylor’s comical red card when their season went into crisis mode.A row broke out on the pitch after Bowyer felt Dyer was refusing to pass him the ball — Dyer is understood to have called Bowyer “s***” — and that is when the midfielder made his dissatisfaction clear.
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