Manchester United Treble winner Andy Cole says former Arsenal manager George Graham was reason why he had to leave.
Cole began his youth career with the Gunners in 1988 before leaving in 1992 after two loan spells the previous year.
And now Cole's explained that his frosty relationship with Graham who he claims was always putting him down was the reason he had to leave.
Cole told the Original Penguin X Campaign Against Living Miserably Under The Surface podcast: "All my time at Arsenal, I felt I was being held back constantly.
"I remember one day George Graham saying to me 'You think you're the bees knees', and I'm thinking what do you want me to do, if I'm playing against your first team, do you want me to walk around with my head down on the floor, or push my chest out, what do you want?
"'You think you're the bees knees, you think you're better than you are', all that kind of stuff. So the opportunity for me to go out on loan was to show him that I was more than good enough."
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