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Ashley Cole Says He 'Was a Little Bit Stubborn' When He Left Arsenal for Chelsea

Ashley Cole has said he "was a little bit stubborn" when he decided to leave Arsenal for London rivals Chelsea in 2006.

Speaking during an appearance on Sky Sports Monday Night Football (h/t Football.London's Josh Challies and Robert Warlow), Cole referred to himself as "young, naive, stupid" when he left his boyhood club: "I should have sat down with more people and gone through it with an ice-cool head at the time. I was a little bit hot-headed at the time and didn't realise what I was doing at the time.