Former Celtic goalkeeper David Marshall has revealed the time Bobo Balde lost the plot after a defeat to Hearts and it ended with Alan Thompson hiding in a cupboard.
The big defender was known for being a tough act on the pitch and clearly had a temper off it as well after going mad at criticism he received following a defeat to Hearts.
And he got so angry in one argument that Alan Thompson jumped into his locker to avoid getting hit by any flying debris as Balde rampaged in the dressing room.
The Celtic Park dressing room allows you to go right inside the lockers and the former Hoops winger made sure to make use of it to get out of the way of the big defender.
Marshall, now at Wigan, was on Open Goal with Si Ferry and admits Balde was great because he stood up for his younger team-mates.
He said: "Bobo was so good with the young lads. He would come in and if the lads were having a go at you he would stick up for you.
"The defence probably took a lot of stick because our top players were forward and the characters. The defenders were quiet, really nice guys.
"If things were going wrong the older lads would look to the back lads because Sutty (Chris Sutton) is scoring 20 a season, John (Hartson) is scoring 30, Henrik (Larsson) scoring 50. Lenny (Neil Lennon) and Lambo (Paul Lambert) are brilliant, Thommo (Alan Thompson) is creating so they’d look to the back lads and they’d take a lot of stick if things were going wrong but Bobo wouldn’t let it happen.
"After the Hearts game at home, we’d got beat 2-1. It was kind of because of me. John Robertson had a go at me that I should have come for a cross but it was never my ball to come for.
"At the time in the dressing room I was like ‘well I need to see it again but I didn’t think it was me’ and then the boys were having a wee bit. It wasn’t too bad, there was a bit of toing and froing and having a go at the lads saying ‘we’ve scored and we can’t keep a clean sheet’. We must have been going through that spell where we couldn’t keep a clean sheet.
"But then (Stan) Petrov walked in and he’d just done an interview. He just came for Bobo and he’s flipped.
"It was like the Incredible Hulk, I never thought he was going to hurt anybody but the lockers in Parkhead you can actually go inside and Thommo was inside his locker and Bobo was chucking things.
"That was the only time I seen him go mad and it was justified. I remember speaking to Steve Walford a couple of days later and he said it was never your ball to come for and it settled from there."
