Rio Ferdinand “merked” his England team-mates for an ITV programme ahead of the World Cup, getting Gary Neville in to trouble with a scouse police officer, landing Wayne Rooney in it at a charity dogs home and forcing David Beckham to jump out of his car and leg it away from what he believed to be a stalker.
Ferdinand, speaking to Channel Bee, has revealed that he’s not the only United player who likes to wind up his team-mates though.
“At United we’ve got quite a few people who are in to winding people up,” said Rio. “Wayne Rooney is obviously one of the main culprits. He’s involved in all stages of wind up material. Wes Brown and Darren Fletcher are normally the butt of his jokes. Wes usually has to check his trainers now because he puts them on because they could be sawed in half or the laces are gone. Fletcher has a nice clean image but in the changing room he’s normally involved in stuff, like people’s phones going missing. Fletcher is renowned for stuff like that.”
If you think these pranks were too immature for the more senior members of the team, then you’d be wrong, with Ryan Giggs partaking in the wind ups too.
“If you leave your car keys anywhere, Giggsy is the man, your car keys are gone,” Rio added. “Gary Neville went up for dinner, he likes his food Gaz, and put his keys down, then as he went to put his plate down on the side he realised his keys were gone and that he wouldn’t be going home for another twenty minutes at least because Giggsy won’t tell him where he’s put them. The rice krispie box. Giggsy has got a cheeky glint in his eye and can always chuck in a comment. He’s the man for cutting a young player down to size. If a young kid is getting out of hand, talking a bit too much or they’re too loud on the coach, then Giggsy will make a dry, sarcastic comment to make the player realise they’re getting above their station.”
But would Rio play a trick on Sir Alex? Not on your life!
“The boss, you just don’t go anywhere near,” Rio said with the shake of his head. “Not with proper banter anyway. You might try kicking the ball through his legs as he’s walking around the changing room, but he’ll give you a clip around the ear for doing it. You wouldn’t want to try cutting his socks or shoes up because not only would you get a clip around the ear, but a fine as well probably, and you’d be on the next bus out of Manchester!”
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BTW, are you okay, Scott ?
Nice….. lolz
Players are also human, pleasant read
Who is to blame for hiding all the goals in Rome ? Cos that definitely wasnt fucking funny !
I can’t wait for next season… i am hoping for a more involvement of Berba, Nani and Ando……..
Rio is gonna try to nutmeg Fergie. don’t do that Rio, naughty boy. Rio to get kanpatti(clip around the ear) from Fergie, lol
Haha, i love the team spirit we have at our club.
Well its good to see the team “playing jokes” and “pranks”. Where the fuck were they the other night? Well I have got back from my camping trip and have not listened or read any media sources since Wed night. I could not put myself through it. Anyway I have nothing to say about our defeat as after reading through the comments for the last 4 hours or so every angle has been covered. Save to say I have never seen so many Barca shirts on young kids! Also I have been getting texts from fuckin Citeh fans (yes City!) that I have not heard from in 18months taking the piss. How fuckin dare they?
Only thing I did do was phone my old man daily to make sure that Sir Alex had not retired.
We are United, we will be back next season and we will be stronger for it!!
Will start afresh on the threads tomorrow but hello again everyone.
@King Eric : welcome back mate. how was your trip ? atleast you had some days off from the disappointment and not like many of us here. hope we start the new season with a bang like we did in 06-07.
Welcome back KIng Eric.You did the best thing by taking some days off.
I have seen his prank to Beckham.Classic.
Awful week. Rafa lost. But i am confident, why ?
Nice story.
Shame about that shite them pair are wearing though.
Great post Scott.Didn’t know Giggs and fletcher were also involved in playing pranks.
@Manchester united forever
hahaha great post
oops i meant AlphaRS ^^
I saw all the “merked” programmes. The David Beckham one was so funny. He actually got out of the car and was just running down the street, Rio had to run after him! Becks looked so pissed lol
I still have a lump in my throat about rome! Im so pissed off that hardly any of our players actualy turned up!
If you pick the best 11 players on the pitch rated purly in that match i would struggle to pick a united player!
From what i have herd Vidic was touch and go due to an injury picked up in training and the fact that Ferdinand hadnt played much in the past few weeks did highlight his rustyness!
I have seen people winge about the formation, this was wrong that was wrong but for me our players didnt turn up that night!
Carrick – Passing was poor
Rooney – Passing was poor
Ronaldo – Over Greedy
Ferdinand – Rusty
Vidic – Not his usual trustworth performance!
Evra – Not effective going forward as usual
Park – If he hadnt had that shot in the first 5 minutes i wouldnt have known he was on the pitch!
Giggs – Floated about possibly one of our better players on the night but not
VDS – Nothing much to comment on, Picked the ball out of the net twice dont remember him doing too much else!
Fergie – Formation? He tried to play a high tempo match. Not giving them time on the ball and for the first 7 minutes or so it was working. Barca looked rattled! They couldnt string 3 passes together! Then then breaked and vidic did his bit and eto scored! After that Barca had the confidence and they stroked it about with ease.
After a rough week on the pitch.nice to know players can move on with the lighter stuff
Funny jokes are great what were you playnig in Rome Find the ball , this article makes me sick they are messing around while i spend good cash to follow them not anymore
@ simo: so you think that because these players lose a match that they can not enjoy a joke every now and then? These are human beings and they have every right to have a joke and keep up the team spirit! as a fan i would of thought you would understand this.
But otherwise great post, nice to see the lads having such a good off-pitch relationship
Didnt he do this programme before 4 the world cup in 06
the premiership , 2 cups and all of a sudden the season was a failure common guys. If we scored in the first 10mins. It could have been different in rome.barca were better on the night but these things happen.This team has done us proud this season…..forever united