Rio Ferdinand released another nugget of information about the rows behind the scenes at Man Utd today in an extract from his book #2sides printed in the Sun.
Ferdinand explained how he felt he had to toughen up some of the youth players at Old Trafford. He recalled one incident where he told off a young teammate because he was weeping over being dropped.
Last season I was told that one of them had cried in front of the manager. I asked what the matter was. “I thought I was going to play today,” he explained. I reminded him he was 19 and told him to stop crying like a little baby.
Getting angry about not getting picked, fair enough.
But crying to the manager about not getting picked, that’s mad.
He also reminisced about how he and his teammates used to abuse Wayne Rooney over his hair transplant. The antics in the dressing room appeared to have tread the thin line between light-hearted teasing and straight-up bullying.
Like when Wayne Rooney had his hair weave. We’d been teasing him saying: “He looks like Bobby Charlton and he’s only 21."
We would be in the changing room fretting. “Oh no, it’s going to rain today. What’s going to happen with his hair? It’s going to be everywhere.”
Hat tip: The Sun
