Rio Ferdinand organised what was supposed to be the party of the year for the Champions this Christmas, but when stories of rape and roastings emerged, things quickly turned sour. Today, Sir Alex Ferguson spoke about how he is more than happy to get rid of players who disrupt the balance at United, who jeopardise all that Fergie has worked so hard to protect.
The News of the World goes one step further today, claiming that the players who attended the party, who is every member of the first team bar Ronaldo, have been fined £1 million. It had already been reported that the United team weren’t allowed to throw any more parties, regardless of what trophies they may collect, with Ferguson speaking out about the incident just once, keeping tight lipped about the incident.
With United’s name dragged through the mud, with Ferguson tearing strips off them every day, and now a massive fine, it begs the question, was it really worth it? Ferdinand could see himself out on his arse if he’s not careful, and Wesley Brown, who’s already miffed about his wages, certainly won’t be pleased to see a few months earnings go down the drain!
Congratulations Rio, you’ve really exceeded yourself this time!
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Stop blaming Rio all the time. True he shoulders some if not a major part of the responsibility but surely the plans were known and if the senior/influential players wouldn’t have liked the idea they would so. Its easy to pick on Rio because of his attitude and past experience, but the truth is that its the WHOLE squad who is responsible.
For what my opinion is worth, I wouldn’t exchange Rio for any defender in the world, let alone now that he’s in his prime and I’m sure that Fergie realises that and he still has faith in him as the armband against Sunderland shows.
remember it was an allegation of rape, and it appears the police don.t think it will go any further. Another person jumping on the bandwagon- ready to sell there story no doubt.I would have thought that high profile players would have sussed out theses people by now and not put themselves in situations which make them vulnerable.Surely the football club should have insisted that if they wanted a party-then it should have been a club/family one and all would have been well!
Yeah, Rio just want to make him and the ther enjoy themselves outside the field. And by the way, everybody have christmas parties. I think it was a good idea, it justdidnt go right. What do u have against Rio anyway. Hes our second best defender behind Vidic and a better captain than giggs!
thre’s a major rio bashing going arnd in this forum, come on! he aint responsible for the whole team every time, come on give the guy a break!
That partys should be baned forever for any team.Those cunts are millioners in early twentys and should wait few years until theys careers are over and then make partys every day if they wants
I’ve been reading a lot of topics on this website over the last year, and i have enjoyed each and everyone of them up until this one… Im not saying that whats being said is wrong, but i do feel that as united supporters we should be backing our team and players like it always has been done at this website… Also blaming Rio or any other individual is wrong.. just like on the pitch, they were there as a team.
Hang on there a diddly second peeps- Rio’s a smashing defender, one half of possibly the best centre-back in the world but far from the consummate pro, Rio- considering his status, wages, transfer fee and ability- is more than worthy of being a target for a) organising the damn party in the first place and b) for being a ‘senior player’- other senior players were there but they didn’t organise the damn thing. Yes the team need a lashing and a half, which they have had from fergie no doubt, but Rio being Rio (next United & Capello’s England captaincy potential) needs to be put in his place, he’s a leader on the pitch and obviously off the pitch and should’ve known better. Loyalty is for people who deserve it, Rio at this moment in time is not deserving of it- that party had rape allegation written all over it with hand-picked girls and banned WAGs, Evans probably brushed past the girl and the drunk tramp and her aspiring pimp boyfriend who immediately saw a tabloid shocker/dollars. He’s playing great, smashing defender who in my opinion puts the likes of Terry and Carragher in his shade but he’s still lacking a few units towards his life skills diploma.
Oh and the whole team were a bunch of berks for paying towards the damn party, just happens that Rio’s the biggest merking berk of all of them.
Rather unfair to lay all the blame at RIo’s doorstep – he may have organized the whole thing, but the entire first team squad seems to have had a great time there – including all the other senior squad members, who went along with the idea of banning wives and girlfriends – they’ve all been exceedingly stupid, and Sir Alex seems to have rightly pulled them up
“i do feel that as united supporters we should be backing our team and players like it always has been done at this website… Also blaming Rio or any other individual is wrong.. just like on the pitch, they were there as a team.”
Spot on Moeb, we should be backing all our players. We did that with Beckham after the World Cup, Cantona and his ban, Rooney and Ronaldo after their World Cup, and many more. To me, this is what makes us the Republik of Mancunia; supporters of other teams usually blame individual players but we’re having none of that at United. Anyway, Rio might have organised the party, but he wasn’t the one behind the supposed rape, and so is innocent in my books.
What exactly is the big hullaballooo about anyways???? ALLEGATIONS of rape against a young defender…nothing to justify this amazingly stupid backlash against the team…especially Rio…he’s been rock solid at the back..DEFINITELY better captaincy material than giggsy…giv him a break…he wuz only tryin to liven up the atmosphere…
rio’s a disgrace. a prime example of the celebrity-obssessed, crystal champagne-drinking, teenager-roasting modern footballer. any player lucky enough to be given the honour of wearing the red shirt graced by the likes of duncan edwards, johnny carey, bill foulkes, harry gregg, billy meredith, best, law, charlton, cantona, solskjaer, sholes…. should conduct themselves with a little more humility.
be warned rio: beckham, stam, ince etc – none of them bigger than this great club!