“I’ll see you in the tunnel.” There was a time when that was more than a throwaway line on the pitch, even if some players found a way to make sure that they never showed up.“One of my standard challenges was to (jump and) head the ball and put my studs down someone’s back which you’d get sent off for now,” Liam Ridgewell, the former Aston Villa defender, tells The Athletic. “I did it to the late, great Papa Bouba Diop at Fulham.”Ridgewell, now a coach with MLS side Portland, pauses as he thinks back to what happened next. “You know that GIF when Jim Carrey wipes his mouth and changes his demeanour? Well, Bouba Diop turned around, rubbed his back and went: ‘What. Did. You. Just. Do?’ And I thought: ‘S .’“He said: ‘I’ll see you in the tunnel.’ I was like: ‘No you f ing won’t!’ After the game, I stayed out there (on the pitch) so long, even clapping the home fans, so that I didn’t have to go back down the tunnel!”But tunnels in football
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Ten-man Town unluckily crashed out of the FA Cup after losing 1-0 at home to Portsmouth, despite dominating much of the game. Pompey, whose goal was scored by sub David Nugent, were given a massive helping hand by referee Mark Halsey s bizarre first half red-carding of Liam Trotter.