Game of Thrones star Sean Bean made Neil Warnock’s wife cry with X-rated rant
The Hollywood actor was beheaded in the hit fantasy show but was once keen to see the ex-Blades boss get the chop too
GAME OF THRONES has entered its final season but will have a tough time topping one of its most memorable episodes, the Battle of the B******s.
While Sean Bean - who played Ned Stark on the show - had already been killed off by that time, he once enjoyed his own version after an almighty row with Neil Warnock.
The Hollywood star was ruthlessly beheaded during the show's first season but was once keen to see the Cardiff boss get the chop too during his time at Sheffield United.
The 59-year-old, who was on the board at the Blades for five years between 2002 and 2007, allegedly once went on an x-rated rant that made Warnock's wife and son cry.
Warnock, 70, oversaw a cruel end to their Premier League campaign at Bramall Lane in Bean's last year at the club when they were relegated on goal difference.
The Blades suffered a 2-1 loss at home to Wigan Athletic and the former Queens Park Rangers manager claimed in his autobiography that is was then that the two clashed.
If that incident hadn’t happened maybe I’d still be Sheffield United manager today
Neil Warnock on his row with Sean Bean
He wrote in Made in Sheffield: “I got back to my office and my best mate, Paul Evans, was waiting for me. My wife Sharon, and the kids Amy and William were there, too.
“Sharon had been crying and the kids knew why she was so upset. It wasn’t just the football. Not just because of the result.
“Twenty minutes or so after the game had ended, Sharon and William were sitting in my office when the film actor, Sean Bean, who is a Sheffield United board director, burst in with his girlfriend.
“He was obviously the worse for wear. He wanted to know where I was. Sharon told him I was doing a press conference and I’d be back soon.
‘HE'S A F****** W*****'
“So Sean Bean started swearing at her and my five-year-old son. ‘It’s your f****** husband that got us relegated,’ he said, pointing at her. ‘He’s a f****** w*****’.
“That’s Sean Bean, the tough guy actor. Some kind of tough guy, eh, reducing a five-year-old kid and his mum to tears.
“I was livid to begin with. I wanted to go and find him but Paul told me not to waste my time.
“He might be a film star but he wasn’t a star in my eyes that afternoon.
“If that incident hadn’t happened maybe I’d still be Sheffield United manager today. But it made me realise what certain people at the club were saying about me behind my back.”
There is no way I would ever dream of using language like that in front of a child
Sean Bean on Warnock's claims
Bean, a famous Blades fan, was heavily involved in football before his time on Game of Thrones, and starred in the 1996 film When Saturday Comes on his beloved club.
He also hit back at Warnock's accusations at the time by denying ever swearing in front of a child while also aiming several digs at the veteran manager.
Bean said: “A lot of Blades fans refer to him by his anagram ‘Colin W*****’ – and when he comes out with rubbish like this it’s easy to see why.
“I’ve got three daughters of my own and there is no way I would ever dream of using language like that in front of a child, no matter how upset I was.
“Yes, I was looking for him after we were relegated – and I wasn’t the only one. We were all devastated. But I didn’t storm into Warnock’s office and confront his wife as he claims in his book. I was outside in the corridor when I told her what I thought of him.
“What I didn’t know was that his kid was behind the door and when someone pointed that out to me, I immediately apologised.
“The story Warnock tells is not the one I remember and I was there. But perhaps when you spend so much time rehearsing to get picked for the next series of Strictly Come Dancing it effects your memory.”
“Everyone has heard him effing and blinding on the touchline – and I find nothing wrong with that. Football is a passionate game. It excites us.
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“But one minute Warnock is relating the story of how he told Sir Alex Ferguson to f*** off, the next he’s having a go at me for bad language. It’s hypocrisy. He did a TV documentary a couple of years ago and every other word was an expletive.”
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