THIS is the astonishing moment a Rangers cult hero went berserk at a pundit live on air.
The TV cameras were rolling as the argument started and eventually the pundit’s female colleague had to step in to calm things down.
MAXSPORT1The incident occurred on Croatian sports channel MAXSport1[/caption]
MAXSPORT1Rino Gattuso and Josko Jelicic didn’t pull any punches[/caption]
MAXSPORT1It came after a Gattuso’s team was beaten badly by their league rivals[/caption]
Former Rangers star Rino Gattuso has never been shy in putting himself about – both on and off the pitch.
He was a tenacious and tough tackling player and as a manager he has been similarly hot-headed.
The Italian is leading Hajduk Split on a title charge but is still feeling the pressure as the club seeks to end its 20-year Croatian league title drought.
Gattuso has masterminded a title challenge despite telling one of his own players to F*** OFF just a few weeks into his new job.
The main rivals to Hajduk’s title charge this season are Rijeka and Gattuso’s men lost 3-0 to last year’s runners-up in a crucial game yesterday.
It saw Hajduk drop to second and Rijeka overtake them at the top of the table to now lead by two points, with Dinamo Zagreb a further three points behind in third.
After the 3-0 defeat to Rijeka, Gattuso was scheduled to do a live interview with Croatian sports channel MAXSport1.
But to say things didn’t go to plan would be an understatement.
Gattuso refused to shake the hand of Josko Jelicic, a former Hajduk Split star who also played for Sevilla and Dinamo Zagreb and earned a cap for his country whilst playing for Hajduk.
The AC Milan legend told Jelicic “I won’t give an answer to you, you speak too much” and made a mouthing gesture with his hand.
Gattuso then pointed at Jelicic and said: “You used to play football, you should understand, you know very well the situation.
“But you always speak very bad. I don’t have respect for you. You speak very bad. I don’t want to speak with you.”
Gattuso was speaking in English but Jelicic responded in Spanish, saying “You played very bad!”
An enraged Gattuso told him “You have to have respect for people” before they started shouting over one another.
Gattuso then cut the pundit off and said: “This is the last time. If you are here, I won’t talk to you anymore, because you are a bad person.”
Jelicic then blasted back by calling Gattuso “a foreigner” and said “You come from Italy, you have to respect all of the people here.”
Female presenter Valentina Miletic was able to stop the quarrel and she then began to ask the Hajduk boss questions about the game.
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