Micah Richards’ furious Ian Wright ‘ding dong’ after Arsenal man slammed star’s Aston Villa captaincy

Former Aston Villa man Micah Richards recalled a heated clash with Match of the Day colleague Ian Wright in a hilarious moment on the latest episode of Match of the Day: Top 10.

Richards, Alan Shearer and Gary Lineker set about picking the best Premier League 'masters of the dark arts' and included the ex-Arsenal man in the list.

While discussing the former Gooner, Richards let it slip that he still hadn't forgiven the striker for a critical moment of punditry when the defender was at Villa.

He said: "I've still not forgiven Wrighty because he dug me out on Match of the Day.

"When he was a pundit I was playing at Aston Villa, we was away I can't remember the game. He dug me out. I probably deserved it.

"It was from a corner, our attacking corner, they headed it out and are on a counter attack. Instead of running straight to my centre-back, I ran to where the ball was going to be and Wrighty said I should've went straight back to centre-back. But I was the quickest on the team, so I'm running towards the ball and people are getting in my position."

The match Richards was referring to came in December 2015 when the Villains played Norwich City under Remi Garde. The Canaries ran out of that fixture 2-0 winners and left Villa bottom of the league, six points adrift at that early stage of the season. That year the club were eventually relegated from the Premier League for the first time ever.

Analysing the meeting with Norwich at the time, Wright said: "People are saying Villa will go down and when you look at this you have to say that's right.

"When you look at Micah Richards, his body shape is completely wrong. That's the captain there! He's got to make more of an effort!"

A fuming Richards took to Twitter to hit back at the pundit, in what he now labels a 'ding dong'. The star wrote: "I respected you as a player! And your not a bad pundit but talking about me like that isn’t on!!

"What has captain got to do with it? I can take constructive criticism but not this!"

Richards did delete the furious Tweets once the red mist descended but admitted it was in the back of his mind when working with Wright for the first time.

On Match of the Day: Top 10 he added: "I had a ding dong on Twitter with him. We were going back and forth, I've deleted the Tweets now.

"I've never been so nervous in my life, has he remembered? Should I bring it up? I never mentioned."