Tottenham Hotspur 1 Manchester United 1: Spurs provide Woodgate with another shot at redemption
Posted in Syndicated News on Monday February 4th, 2008 12:00am
One of the more inventive excuses Peter Ridsdale came up with as his Leeds United reign crumbled and Rio Ferdinand was sold to Manchester United for £30m in 2002 was that the defender had only been bought in the first place as cover for Jonathan Woodgate. He was probably only right in one aspect: that Woodgate, and his terrible injury problems, was always a defender who would need a lot of cover.
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