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Friday, September 10, 2010

Ferdinand Blasts Youth Culture In Football, Used to Shine Redknapp Shoes

"Remember to shine my shoes later, Rio or not you're f***ing fired!!!"

He said in an interview published in The Sun: "Too many lads get their first pro contract and think, 'I am on £500 or £2,000 a week which is a lot of money and I am set up for a lifetime now'.

"Now a lot of the kids are exposed to so much more of the thrills and spills around football.

"They think to themselves, 'if I play a game for the first team all these girls will be after me, I will be invited to all these nightclubs, I will be able to get a new car and buy myself a nice flat".

How Harry Redknapp comes to the picture. Here it goes...

"The thing about cleaning the senior pros' boots is a massive issue and it does my head in. That was one of the best groundings," he insisted.

"Now kids don't even do it. I played a few first team games and still cleaned Harry Redknapp's boots. The kitman does it now."