Rio Ferdinand has joked that former Manchester Metropolis defender Joleon Lescott wants at hand over his 2011-12 Premier League winner’s medal amid the costs going through the membership.
Metropolis and their followers, regardless of an almost-certain enchantment, are nervously awaiting punishment after they had been discovered responsible on the overwhelming majority of their 115 costs round monetary irregularities in opposition to the Premier League.
Quite a few playing cards are on the desk, together with monetary punishments, a lack of factors and the stripping of titles.
A kind of titles can be Metropolis’s first, which was the 2011-12 title they gained in dramatic trend by Sergio Aguero’s late aim in opposition to QPR.
That yr, Manchester United and Rio Ferdinand got here second, and the previous defender has now repeatedly referred to as for that title to be taken away.
‘Subsequent time Joleon’s on, he higher convey my b****y medal,’ Ferdinand mentioned on Rio Ferdinand Presents. ‘Should you’re discovered responsible, then I feel it is best to have to offer the medals again.
Rio Ferdinand (left) has referred to as on Joleon Lescott (proper) at hand him his 2011-12 Premier League winner’s medal
‘After I see Joleon, I am truly going to go to his home and simply say, “Hear, hand it over. Hand it over”. You possibly can’t actually sit there and say that you simply had been champions, are you able to? Otherwise you gained that otherwise you gained that.
‘Effectively, they don’t seem to be going to must pay any fines. They don’t seem to be going to get relegated. Simply hand over the trophy. Hand over the medals, hand over the trophy. Easy as.’
Ferdinand was one of many first former United gamers to name for Metropolis to be stripped of the title
He posted on X on Friday: ‘One other Premier League medal to be added to the cupboard.’
And the 47-year-old is not holding again, days on.
‘They have been the perfect workforce within the nation by a rustic mile, proper?’ he mentioned. ‘They usually’ve had the perfect supervisor right here. However once more, if discovered responsible, there must be related punishments and that is what must be put in place
Lescott was a part of the Manchester Metropolis workforce that gained the title forward of United in 2012
‘So, we now have to simply sit and wait. Once more, the killer for that is that it is took this lengthy. That is that. However again to your level about can we nonetheless admire among the soccer and and among the moments that they’d? In fact you may. You possibly can nonetheless admire. And once more, I will reiterate the gamers aren’t responsible on this.
‘There’s folks which might be in rather more highly effective positions and authority positions throughout the soccer golf equipment that make all these choices. So, I would not place any of the blame on any of the gamers shoulders, however they’ll be checked out in another way and it is inevitable as a result of that is simply the way in which it’s.’
Ferdinand would go away United on the finish of the 2013-14 season, during which Metropolis gained the Premier League once more – although Liverpool completed second.
Within the bombshell occasion that Metropolis are stripped of their titles gained throughout their interval of economic breaches, United would have two championships reinstated – 2011-12 and 2017-18, whereas Liverpool would obtain the trophy for 2013-14.
