Cesc Fabregas FINALLY admits he threw pizza at Sir Alex Ferguson during Arsenal’s infamous clash with Manchester United
CESC FABREGAS has finally admitted he was the player who hit Sir Alex Ferguson in the face with a pizza in the Battle of the Buffet.
Manchester United boss Ferguson was left fuming after the incident which occurred when his team and Arsenal players were involved in a bust-up in the tunnel at Old Trafford.
The two sides clashed after United had ended the Gunners' 49-match unbeaten run with a 2-0 win in a bad-tempered match in October 2004.
Tempers raged as both sets of players made their way to the dressing rooms and a fight broke out in the tunnel.
During the spat, Ferguson was hit in the face by a pizza thrown from someone on the Arsenal staff - but until now Fabregas had never come forward to admit he launched the slice.
Ex-Arsenal star Ashley Cole wrote in his autobiography: "All eyes turned and all mouths gawped to see this pizza slip off that famous puce face and roll down his nice black suit."
And Ferguson has also admitted: "They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit is."
But now, Fabregas has come clean during an appearance on Sky One's A League Of Their Own game show after being questioned by James Corden.
Corden said: "Tonight can we finally put the case of the flying pizza to bed once and for all, were you the culprit that thew the pizza?’
Fabregas responded: "Yes!!!!!”
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Jack Whitehall then asked: "Did you just throw it and then dug for cover? Is that why no one saw? Like a sly one?"
Fabregas added: "Martin Keown is a liar because I saw him in front of me just, like, punching people so he didn’t see anything.
"All of a sudden… I heard noises and I thought what’s happening so I go out with my slice of pizza and I saw Sol Campbell, Rio Ferdinand, Martin Keown everyone pushing each other
"I was like I want to get in but I don’t know how to and I just threw it.
"Once I saw it was hitting like who it was hitting which I didn’t mean…I apologise Sir Alex, really didn’t mean to do that."
Jamie Redknapp then asked where the pizza had hit him, and Fabregas responded by slowly tapping the side of his face.
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