Goal.com · Jan 4, 2021
Rio Ferdinand admits to playing in the Premier League while drunk
Rio Ferdinand has revealed he played while drunk for West Ham against Arsenal when he was a teenager.
The former England international has revealed how he was part of the travelling party to Highbury for a game at the start of the 1996-97 season, but was not initially in the matchday squad.
With him not in the squad, and despite potentially being only 17 at the time, Ferdinand said he went up to the bar and started drinking - only to be summoned down to the changing room after Paulo Futre stormed out of the ground.
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