Patrice Evra: When Man Utd legend was sent off for kicking Marseille fan in the head

Patrice Evra will reportedly make his boxing debut in April of this year.

According to the Daily Star, the Frenchman has been keeping himself very fit since officially retiring from football in 2019 and now has his eyes fixated on another sporting challenge.

Evra will apparently headline the undercard of the World's Scariest Man (Martyn Ford) vs The Iranian Hulk (Sajad Gharibi) fight at the O2 Arena in London on April 2nd.

Fair play, Patrice. However, the Manchester United legend would probably be better served partaking in a kickboxing event rather than boxing.

Why do we say that? Well, back in November 2017, the 40-year-old was actually sent off before a Europa League match versus Portuguese side Vitoria Guimaraes for kicking a Marseille fan in the head.

That's right, Evra went full Eric Cantona during a confrontation in the warm-up with his own team's supporters and four-and-a-half years on, the footage still leaves us open-mouthed.

Evra was apparently being subjected to abuse by the Marseille contingent just prior to the violent incident. But even so, you simply cannot react in that manner.

The left-back eventually had his Marseille contract terminated by mutual consent after an investigation, with UEFA also banning him from all competitions until June 2018.

Marseille actually went on to reach the Europa League final in 2017/18, where they eventually lost to Atletico Madrid.

In the build-up to that match, Evra sent a message to the French team's fans where he refused to apologise for kicking the supporter.

He posted on Facebook: “I wanted to thank all Marseille supporters. Despite this little kick to to this Marseille supporter, who I do not regard as a supporter of Marseille because what he said was unacceptable.

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