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Gerard Pique Has An Incredible Story About A Prank Pulled On Patrice Evra

Gerard Pique Has An Incredible Story About A Prank Pulled On Patrice Evra

Turns out there was all sorts going on in the Manchester United dressing room!

Josh Lawless

Josh Lawless

There's more Gerard Pique goodness for everyone today. Firstly, he was detailing how he stole the heart of Shakira by just talking about the weather and now he's got some cracking stories about the pranks that used to occur in the Manchester United dressing room, in particular one pulled on France left-back Patrice Evra.

Pique talks about the atmopshere in his time at United and how he was a big fan of the British humour displayed on a daily basis.

It turns out that there was all sorts of antics going on behind the scenes while Sir Alex Ferguson was in charge and at one point, Patrice Evra was on the receiving end of a brutal prank.

Speaking to TV3, he said:

"I'm a big fan of British humour. It was what I loved about Manchester. They don't get offended when you play tricks on them. They try to get you back, but they don't complain."

"Here at Barca, my humour hasn't always been appreciated by everyone. I deflate teammates tires and other things, but this is nothing compared to what happened at United.

"One day Patrice Evra came in with shoes that he'd been asking Nike for months to make. They had the name of his children on them and all these crazy details.
"He went into the shower and we created a small bonfire and burned them. We recorded it and then sent him the video."

Poor Patrice. Pique revealed that he tried to continue his pranking exploits when he joined Barcelona but it didn't work. We reckon Messi, Suarez and Neymar wouldn't take too kindly to their trainers being set on fire.

He continued:

"In the first few years here (at Barca) I tried similar things but it didn't work. It's not the same culture.

"At United they would take an expensive shirt that you have bought and put it on the free-kick mannequins. The shirt would be ruined because of all the mud it would get on it every time the ball hit it.

"It was a dressing room full of life."

Pure gold.

(h/t SBS)

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Topics: FC Barcelona, Manchester United, Patrice Evra, Gerard Pique, MUFC