Both arriving at Chelsea in 1996, Frank Leboeuf and Roberto Di Matteo were hotel room buddies on away trips, according to the former French defender.
Now a pundit on various media platforms in his home country, the 48-year-old revealed on SFR Sport, a new TV channel in France, how Dennis Wise, who had been at the club six years at this point, used to mess with newcomers at Stamford Bridge.
Comment Leboeuf et Di Matteo se sont vengés après un carnage de @denniswise dans leur chambre 😂😬 #LeVestiaire pic.twitter.com/ZUHJggOlrT
— SFR Sport (@SFR_Sport) September 15, 2016
He said: “He used to get the key to their room and used to go in there and destroy it. When I mean destroy, I mean sofas out the window, all the clothes on the floor with toothpaste and shower gel all over the place.
“Roberto Di Matteo and I turned up, and it was carnage. It took us a year to find out who had done this to us and two years to get our own back.”
How did they get their own back? Oh, it’s very mean.
The 1998 World Cup champion explained that a bit later on, Dennis Wise was writing an autobiography, which was published in 1999 under the original name, wait for it, ‘Dennis Wise: The Autobiography’.
Well, Mr Leboeuf and Mr Di Matteo both went into his hotel room, destroyed it, and also messed with the script for his book, taking out pages, putting some in different places.
It apparently took Dennis Wise four days to get everything back in order, and, to this day, Leboeuf says Wise still had no idea who had done it.
Well, he’s about to find out…
