606 Savage Social: Rio Ferdinand
606
BBC
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Former Manchester United and England defender Rio Ferdinand links up with Robbie Savage to answer listener questions.
Topics include his biggest career highs and lows, the controversial move across the Pennines from Leeds, his first meeting with Sir Alex Ferguson, advice for young players and which footballers he’d sign if he was in charge at Old Trafford.
606 Savage Social is a Shooting Shark Production for BBC 5 Live.
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| 0:00.0 | It's 2003 in Birmingham. |
| 0:04.4 | Doors have been slammed in your face, you're not welcome here. |
| 0:07.1 | They were capable of murder. |
| 0:08.4 | Drive-by killings, gang wars, a vigilante group that fought against Jamaica's notorious yardies. |
| 0:15.6 | The home boy thought we're not going to take this anymore. |
| 0:17.8 | We're going to be even more violent than you. |
| 0:19.6 | Before turning on each other. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Livy Haydock and this is gangster, the story of the Burger Bar boys. |
| 0:27.6 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.1 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Music Radio Podcasts. Hi everyone, it's Robbie Savage here. |
| 0:42.0 | Thanks for listening. we are recording these |
| 0:44.3 | podcast during the lockdown while I'm sat home and still lucky enough that a lot of my |
| 0:49.0 | former teammates and opponents still talk to me so I going to get them on the line and put your |
| 0:54.3 | question to them unless they've changed their numbers of course. |
| 1:00.3 | The player who was joining has started this career at West Ham before in 2000 making a record break |
| 1:08.4 | an 18 million transfer to Leeds United. Two years later after an impressive World Cup he brought the |
| 1:13.8 | transfer record again signing for Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United for |
| 1:18.4 | 30 million pounds. Harold Trafford he went on to win six league titles, the Champions League in 2008, a club world |
| 1:26.4 | cup trophy and two league cups. |
| 1:29.4 | When he made his debut for England in 1997, he was the youngest ever defender at the time to play |
| 1:35.4 | it for the three lions he won 81 caps and played at two World Cups including |
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