Dressing-room divides: Five teams imploded
Craig Kieswetter's recent comments on how the England cricket dressing room became a divided clique between English-born players and South Africans opened a debate into the chasm that can separate teams.
Tim Nash looks at five divided sporting teams.
1 England cricket team, 1978
Captain Geoffrey Boycott had tested the patience of the England team once too often with his funeral scoring rate in February 1978.
A 22-year-old Ian Botham was given a specific order by vice-captain Bob Willis to 'go and run the b****r out' on the fourth day of the second Test between New Zealand and England in Christchurch.
After 20 minutes the chance came. Botham called for an improbable single and by the time a bemused Boycott tried to send his partner back, it was too late.
2 England one day and Twenty20, 2010-13
Craig Kieswetter, inset, has claimed players from a South African background were the butt of jokes by the homegrown contingent in the England dressing room. Johannesburg-born Kieswetter said: "There were jokes made in the dressing room if you had a South African background. When we warmed up in training, we were split into sides: South Africans v English."
3 Manchester United, 1997-2001
Andy Cole and Teddy Sheringham formed one of the most successful strike partnerships for four years in the late 90s – but never spoke. Cole explains: "It was my England debut, against Uruguay. I came on for Sheringham. I expect a brief handshake, a 'good luck, Coley', something. He actively snubs me. I don't even know the bloke so he can't have any issue with me. From that moment on, I knew Sheringham wasn't for me."
4 Holland, Euro 1996
After Holland lost on penalties in the quarter-finals against France, the headlines screamed of a racial divide between Ajax players Edgar Davids, Clarence Seedorf, Patrick Kluivert, Michael Reiziger and Winston Bogarde and the white members of the squad.
Davids informed coach Guus Hiddink he was too close to Danny Blind (the captain) and this worsened when a team photograph apparently captured a racial divide with black players sitting at separate tables to their white team-mates.
5 Red Bull, 2009-2013
Not only was Red Bull's Mark Webber racing the might of McLaren and Ferrari on the track as well as team-mate Sebastian Vettel, he constantly seemed to be battling his own team bosses behind the scenes.
It began when Webber was blamed for a collision at the 2010 Turkish GP that appeared to be Vettel's fault and the Aussie finally had enough in 2013 when the German four-time world champion passed him in Malaysia despite being ordered not to, quitting F1 at the end of the year.