Rio Ferdinand

If that defence is leaking goals so badly, we need our forwards to be scoring more goals.

yeah okay yes Steve Bruce and Gary Pallister Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand he didn't exactly go wanting for centre backs did Alex Ferguson mum

no no they were Rolls Royce players Jaap Stam Jaap Stam

shout Ciarán Jaap Stam I had him in there Alex Ferguson did it with a very good defence mum so I think other teams would sit and go okay Jacqueline well we'll score four can you score four it's a case of like some teams are going to give us a high

Everybody was saying, this is how the club should be run.

I remember Rio Ferdinand after we won the FA Cup.

The thing with Leicester is, look, the owners down on the pitch with the fans and celebrating.

And now we're where we are.

We might have a problem, but we also got a couple of late loan signings in.

Stevenson from Brentford, he's kind of a, I don't know, Rio Ferdinand type central defender.

Very mobile, very athletic.

And he's been... fantastic on on since he signed he's what's he played four games five games for us now and he he's a Bentley of a player you know to use the local um company you know if you if you want to go racing you go racing in it but it's very comfortable the rest of the time you know he's good for everything so Yeah, so I think there was some consternation, but again, we're not the type of team that's going to be throwing loads of money around and signing players for the sake of it like a Salford or whoever.

Honestly, incredible game.

Like, you know when we hear debates about the greatest Premier League defender, and Chelsea fans will, like, forever talk about John Terry, and Man United fans forever talk about Rio Ferdinand.

I get it.

Both of them were fantastic.

No, no, no.

I lived through T- John Terry.

I lived through Rio Ferdinand.

Virgil van Dijk's a level above.

Um, and I remember talking, um, to someone, a, a, a international footballer.

I was doing an event and, um, it was Rio Ferdinand.

I got chatting to him and I said, "Of all your, all the people you've worked with over the years, you know, who stood out for you as kind of like-

Yeah

He might be arrogant, uh-

Yeah

... and all the rest of it, but the reason he's such a good footballer is, uh, Rio Ferdinand said to me, is because he was putting in all that extra-

Right

Yeah.

Um, you know, young Alan Smith, like, Woodgate, um, Rio Ferdinand.

Like, they had a-

Yeah

The 2000 team reached the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League.

Players like Marby Duca, Harry Keywell, Rio Ferdinand and Alan Smith helped create some unforgettable European nights at Elan Road.

One of them came against AC Milan.

Leeds won 1-0 in front of a crowd so loud that former goalkeeper Nigel Martin later described the atmosphere as one of the loudest he had ever experienced.