EX Liverpool forward, Peter Crouch, has apologised to John Mikel Obi over his tackle that got him a red card at the 2007 quarter final of the League Cup.
Referee Martin Atkinson had sent off Peter Crouch after a tackle on Ex Chelsea midfielder, Obi Mikel; the blues were leading 2-0 at the time and and due to frustration, Crouch lunged two-footed at the midfielder.
"The worst tackle I ever did was on Obi Mikel. Liverpool against Chelsea in the Carling Cup," Crouch told BBC 5 Live Sport as quoted by Goal.com.
"The whole game I’ve been receiving balls and he’s been basically told to mark in front of me. So the centre-half is behind me, and him and, here.
"And [Mikel is] basically standing all over my toes and I’m trying to chest things away and he’s putting his head in my face and his elbows around me all game.
"I’ve been telling the [referee] all game, all game, all game and I’m getting nothing. We’re about 70 minutes in now and it’s been going on all game.
"And it happened again and the ball has broken off and another one of these elbows and things he’s done to me – the ball’s broken there just posted perfectly and he’s facing the stand and obviously I’ve switched, lost the plot and tried to take him out basically.
"But I’m not proud of this if he’s listening to this, which I think in no way he’ll be, John Obi Mikel I'd have to apologise because the red mist was that… It was like an out of body experience."
Chelsea eventually made it to the final of the competition, but lost 2-1 to Tottenham Hotspur who had defeated Arsenal at the semi final.
