Inside Carrington podcast: Rio Ferdinand reacts to doing the FIFA World Cup draw

Requested if he was extra nervous for the draw or 2008 Champions League ultimate, Rio continues: “The presentation was miles forward, when it comes to nerves!

“As a result of, within the Champions League, I am simply doing what I’ve completed for 15 to twenty years. You are nervous, and there is a little bit of concern, however there was lots of concern and lots of nerves with the draw, as a result of it is the unknown and likewise the technicalities.

“The fella – I neglect his identify now – who was telling me how you can do it and guiding me, he was unreal. He was sensible and knew the whole lot. However once I was asking him questions previous to doing the present, his solutions have been possibly to offer me two or three factors for the reply. And I am considering, ‘proper, I’ve obtained to offer that to the gang and to the thousands and thousands of individuals watching in a single reply, not two or three’.

“It was fairly nerve wracking. Till the day we did a rehearsal, on the morning of it, I used to be prefer to my missus, ‘this might go actually, actually, actually, actually, actually badly’.”