DECLAN RICE ruined Micah Richards because the pair served up some on-air verbals earlier than the Carabao Cup ultimate.
Rice’s Arsenal take on Richards’ former membership Manchester City in a high-stakes Wembley showcase this Sunday.
And Richards – on punditry responsibility for CBS – started the thoughts video games after Arsenal’s Champions League win over Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday.
He stated to Rice: “I really like you as a participant… however we’ll see you on Sunday, eh? We’ll see you on Sunday.
“Just make sure you’re ready on Sunday because City are coming through!”
Richards then chanted: “CITY! CITY! CITY!”
But Rice didn’t miss a beat as he clapped again: “I thought he was an Arsenal fan?”
Studio pundits Thierry Henry and Jamie Carragher fell about laughing at Richards’ awkward second.
The City academy product and two-time Premier League winner is an official membership ambassador for the Blues – however has beforehand been uncovered as a childhood Gunners supporter.
With Rice grinning like a Cheshire cat, Carragher shouted: “He’s just lost his ambassadorial gig!”
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Richards clarified the place his loyalties lie in an interview earlier this 12 months.
He stated: “I’d wish to proper a number of wrongs. I stated, and when you have a look at packages [from] once I was at Man City years in the past, I all the time stated I used to be an Arsenal fan. But I’m not.
“I completely adore – and that is hand on coronary heart, we’re being critical now – I completely love Man City a lot and what they’ve finished for me.
“But I can’t help who I support.”
Richards scored 10 targets in 245 City appearances and performed for Fiorentina and Aston Villa earlier than retiring in 2019 and turning into a big-name pundit.
