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Wayne Rooney hits back at Rio Ferdinand over his "phone-smashing" claim.

Remember ex Manchester star, Rio Ferdinand’s Autobiography excerpts on Wayne Rooney? Lemme refresh your memory, the QPR player said Rooney went through phones like sweets and smashed them during his fits of anger. Well, the Englishman has some revelations about his former teammate too.

“I’ve seen Rio throw a few phones as well. When I was a young lad I was a bit different but I’ve seen Rio throw a few phones as well. As a young lad you’re going through your life in the public eye and doing what normal 16 or 18-year-olds would do. You’re arguing with your friends or whoever and you just grow out of that stage.” He disclosed.

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Still on Rio Ferdinand's autobiography: Wayne Rooney went through phones like sweets and smashed them on concrete in anger

Seems there’s a lot to know in Former Manchester United star, Rio Ferdinand’s Autobiography titled 2sides. Last week, we learnt about John Terry whom he branded an idiot for not apologising to his family over the latter’s racial issue and then he called his former manager David Moyes confused and embarrassing. This time around, the “spotlight” is on his former team mate, Wayne Rooney’s temper.

Excerpts from the QPR defender’s book:

‘Wayne Rooney always struck me as a very angry young man, always arguing with people outside the training ground, especially on the phone. He seemed to fly into a rage about the smallest things and went through mobile phones like they were sweets. He’d smash phones up in frustration, throwing them on the concrete. I don’t know what happened but he did calm down.’

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Rio Ferdinand slams David Moyes in his autobiography.

Still on Former Manchester United player, Rio Ferdinand’s Autobiography titled 2sides. He isn’t done on opening a can of worms. Yesterday we learnt about how he branded John Terry an idiot over a racial issue that involved his brother Anton and the Chelsea captain in 2011, this time around it’s Manchester United’s former manager, David Moyes.

Ferdinand who left the Red Devils for QPR after 12 years also spoke on David Moyes’ reign at Old Trafford. He described the Scott as embarrassing and his tactics negative and confusing.

Excerpts from his book which is being serialised by the Sun reads.

“He tried to impose a vision, but never seemed to be completely clear what that vision should be. Unintentionally, he created a negative vibe where, with Fergie, it had always been positive. He’d slowly lost us. I didn’t enjoy playing under him.

“Sometimes our main tactic was the long, high, diagonal cross. It was embarrassing. In one home game against Fulham we had 81 crosses! I was thinking, why are we doing this? Andy Carroll doesn’t play for us!

Moyes’ innovations led to negativity and confusion. It was always how to stop the other side. Moyes set us up not to lose. We’d been accustomed to playing to win.”

The worst single moment of his career at the clun was when Moyes dropped him for last season’s Champions League quarterfinal clash against Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena.

Ferdinand added. “It killed me. Inside I wanted to scream and grab him. I’m a team player, so I just had to bite my tongue and stand there. It was probably the worst single moment I ever had at United. I’d never been dropped for a big game like that – and to drop that on me in front of everybody.”

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"The biggest idiot will always be John Terry." Rio Ferdinand revisits racial issue

Manchester United star, Rio Ferdinand has revisited the racial issue that happened between his brother Anton Ferdinand and Chelsea’s John Terry in 2011. During a match between QPR and Chelsea 3 years ago, the Blues captain was said to have racially abused Anton by calling him a ‘f****** black c***’, an offence which was taken up by the FA.

Speaking for the first time since the incident happened, the Red Devils defender labelled John Terry stupid for failing to apologise to neither him nor his brother. He also added that he cannot forgive him for what he did and put his family especially his mum through.

He wrote in his autobiography titled #2Sides,

‘He never apologised to me or to Anton. And he has never hinted that he has ever had a moment of understanding over the damage his stupidity had inflicted on everyone.’

‘For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry. As England captain and my centre-back partner he could have saved everyone a lot of pain by admitting immediately he used the word in the heat of the moment, but was not racist.

‘I think that’s probably what happened and what the truth is. Anton and I would’ve accepted that – instead he never gave us a chance. That was the betrayal. He tried to run away from what he had done.’

Credit: Daily Mail

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Check out 15 richest footballers in Britain

Britain’s 15 richest footballers for the year 2014 stars mostly Chelsea and Manchester United players. Chelsea has the highest with 5 players occupying the 3rd, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th. England’s Wayne Rooney sits at the top spot.

1) Wayne Rooney – £60m

2) Rio Ferdinand – £44m

3) Frank Lampard – £37m

3) Steven Gerrard – £37m

5) Ryan Giggs – £39m

6) John Terry – £31m

7) Fernando Torres – £31m

8) Yaya Toure – £23m

9) Petr Cech – £22m

10) Ashley Cole – £21m

11) Joe Cole – £21m

12) Sergio Aguero – £20m

13) David Silva – £20m

14) Damien Duff – £18m

15) Robin van Persie – £17m

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MANCHESTER UNITED TO LAUNCH SOCIAL NETWORK FOR 500 MILLION FANS

In January 2010, Manchester United shut down Facebook and Twitter accounts for all of its players, insisting that no Manchester United players maintain personal profiles on social networking websites.
That same month, Manchester United still didn’t have an official Facebook page, while their official Twitter account only had 28,000 followers.
The story however changed last season. The club has now embraced social media with more than 20 million Facebook fans, more than any other Premier League club. Rio Ferdinand alone has over 1.6 million followers on Twitter.
The club has however appointed a digital agency to build a social network for its fans worldwide. The platform will be rolled out in stages over the next two years. The club has identified a target of more than 500m fans. The Manchester United Facebook page has attracted 20m fans in the year since its launch.
The platform will host multimedia contents and offer advertising and sponsorship opportunities for brands. It will also sell items such as club merchandise through an ecommerce function.
The aim however is to drive engagement with the club’s fans and tap into Asian markets, where Manchester United has a strong following and smartphone use is growing rapidly.
The club will offer fans exclusive content, such as videos featuring star players, and content from TV channel MUTV.

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