Rio Ferdinand Reveals why David Moyes failed at Manchester United
Former Manchester United Captain, Rio Ferdinand has revealed reasons why former coach, David Moyes failed at Manchester United in his new autobiography.
The 35-year-old who now plays at Queens Park Rangers released his new autobiography ‘#2sides’ on Sunday, making a host of revelations about the season after Sir Alex Ferguson retired and Moyes took over.
Ferdinand said the players had become very unhappy with Moyes, especially after he banned them from eating chips the night before a game and requested the ban be reversed immediately he was sacked and temporarily replaced by Ryan Giggs.
The former England captain also claimed that Moyes’ decision to focus so much on the opposition, especially his display of their videos repeatedly while trying to find out how to stop them left the United players doubting their own abilities and believing that other teams were better than them.
“Before every game he made a point of showing us videos of how dangerous the other team could be,” Ferdinand said. “On the morning of a game we’d spend half an hour on the training ground, drilling to stop them.
“There was so much attention to the subject it suddenly became a worry, they must be very good at this to have us spend all this time on it.”
