16/05/2023
🗣️Rio Ferdinand on : “I think the biggest problem was that didn’t have anyone in that dressing room who could smell what you were coming into.
"I watched you after the West Ham game, after the Liverpool game, and the reaction of the players was players that looked broken. Even the manager at times … just seeing those pictures in isolation I’m thinking ‘wow, these guys are out of something, or they’re going down’. That’s the vibe I got from the body language.
“My first time I won a league title, one of the six … we went and drew at Southampton away, and Arsenal won that weekend, and I was sitting in the changing room thinking ‘we’ve thrown it away, man’. I was down, shoulders slumped.
“I went in the shower and I heard Roy Keane and Gary Neville saying ‘That’s a great point, what a great point that is, hard place to come, we’ll go again next week’. And my whole vibe changed, my body language, everything changed.
“Was there anyone in that Arsenal changing room doing the same? After those games … was there anyone saying ‘woah, 2-2 at Anfield’s a big result for us, these guys aren’t idiots, they’ve won big trophies.'”
