Robbie Savage has described being spat on as the worst thing that happened to him in his career.
The former Leicester City and Derby County midfielder was playing for Wales when a Hungarian opponent gobbed on him and he suggests there is nothing worse that can take place on a football pitch.
Savage wrote about his experiences in his column for The Mirror in the wake of the spitting altercation between Newcastle United's Papiss Cisse and Manchester United's Jonny Evans on Wednesday night.
'I suffered both as a player and receiving a volley of someone else's germs and saliva is FAR worse even than being head-butted,' wrote Savage.
'Spitting is not just unhygienic and unattractive - on a football pitch, to spit at an opponent is the lowest of the low.
'As a player I was involved in dishing out, or being on the receiving end of, just about every trick in the book.
'But I never, ever spat at a fellow professional - and being spat on, when playing for Wales in Hungary, was the worst thing that ever happened to me in my career.
'It made me feel physically sick.
'I wanted to collar the slimy little b*****d who did it and punch his lights out.'
Savage continued: 'I hate it when I see people spit in the street.
'I've been spat on when I've gone to a game with my young son.
'It's a disgusting, degrading, deplorable act for one professional sportsman to do to another.
'Whatever the outcome of the Evans/Cisse case, it's not a habit you would want your children to copy off the TV.'
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