Michael Carrick had to step in to try and stop a brawl between Middlesbrough and Sunderland players. The two sides face off in the Tees–Wear derby, live on talkSPORT 2, and neither side were able f…
, and neither side were able find the net in the first half in their bid to continue their promising runs in the Championship.The Black Cats' afternoon was disrupted as Dan Neil was handed a second yellow and was given his marching orders before the half-time whistle.
Not long after Neil's dismissal, the game descended into further chaos, as the Sunderland and Middlesbrough players started shoving each other as tensions boiled over. "There's a dust-up right in front of the dugout," talkSPORT's commentator for the game Adam Bridge said live from the Stadium of Light. "Michael Carrick is on the field trying to get his players away."
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