Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
Fantastic!!

I might have mentioned the story, but many years ago, I met Rio Ferdinand in a chinese restaurant in Wetherby. He was playing for Leeds at the time. He turned up for a take away with a woman that turned up not to have been his wife at the time.

A few guys from the group I was with asked him for photos, autographs etc while he was waiting, so we got £20 together and got him a bottle of wine to go with his food. At the time we'd just won promotion to Division 2 (as it was then) and so I approached him to say I look forward to seeing him playing some time at Cardiff City (taking the piss a bit). He laughed and said "you never know".

3rd round draw and we were home to Leeds......
Having witnessed at first hand his demise at Ninian Park when Gavin Gordon pollacked into touch and then limping off, for me he was never going to be good enough for us , at the time we had Scotty Young anyways , and many giants in that position followed , he'd never have got a game anyways , guess that's why he never signed for us .