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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Guest #100 Rio Ferdinand: Sir Alex and my Champions League Quest (Pt 2)

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In 2008, Rio Ferdinand’s Champions League dream came true on a rainy night in Moscow.

The final against Chelsea was a game Rio was terrified to lose. He had to take a penalty in the shootout, an experience he says you simply cannot prepare yourself for. But his mum just loved it when he walked up to lift the big trophy.

Rio once raged at Sir Alex Ferguson from the pitch. The manager was so angered that he would have sold him had he not apologised. Fergie was a genius, a man with an incredible personal touch. Pep Guardiola was the only guy who could have filled his shoes. United had beaten Barcelona in the ’08 semi, but Pep's team were a different beast in the 2009 and 2011 finals. Rio felt embarrassed after those games and said that Barca ripped the soul from that United team. Although they were up against the greatest side of all time, Rio knows they could and should have done better. Fergie should have set them up differently, more compactly, more counter-attacking.

Thanks Rio.

Graham

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patreon.com forward slash Graham hunter p at reoen dot com forward slash Graham Hunter and we'll bring you joy. Following as it does, after the first part, this would be what we like to call the second part of the big interview with

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real Ferdinand and you're so special that you deserve as much real in your life as

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is humanly possible so if you haven't listened to part one, unless you're on the run from the FBI and Interpol,

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there's no bloody excuse, but now you've got another chance, I think you should.

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If you did listen to part one you'll already be aware that

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Rios are one hundredth guest on this podcast the big interview and you've all

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helped us reach that milestone. Listeners yes so soios more than anybody. So thank you very much on a scale of two.

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And one to people who aren't socios. Thanks to Rio who has his own channel on YouTube, Rio Ferdinand presents 5.

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Go there and you'll find interviews like Rio did with some of the very best footballers on the planet,

1:50.0

including one with Hamiz Rodriguez that I joined in order to translate.

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This is how we parlayed for Rio to sit down for this, one of the best interviews I've enjoyed

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for a very long time and in part two we're going to Moscow and to Rome and to Wembley

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There'll be big mentions for Darren Fletcher for some of the great players that he came across, the stress he felt in Russia's

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capital. These were Rios three Champions League finals. Get ready for some

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inside stuff, some explosive stuff on how those games were won and lost, an interesting insight into

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his relationship with the greatest manager of the football world has ever known Sir Alex Ferguson.

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