Rio Ferdinand drugs 'shocker'

[Guest Dark Sotonic Mills]

Football In Crisis: Rio phone sensation: WHY TEXT HIS DOC?

by JAMES SAVILLE

Oct 19, 2003

THE mystery over the Rio Ferdinand missed drugs test takes a dramatic new twist today as we reveal that the first contact he made

after leaving the ground was a text message to a private doctor

. The Man Utd footballer

sent the message within minutes of leaving the club’s training ground

and just an hour after being ordered to attend the random check. The Sunday Mirror can reveal that the 24-year-old

had his mobile phone on at all times

– contrary to reports that his phone was still off after finishing training. And although a

desperate phone call and a series of text messages had been left on his phone

by club doctor Mike Stone, it took Ferdinand nearly half an hour to call back.

How did the Sunday Mirror know about Rio’s text messages? That his phone was switched on at all times? Where he was when he texted? They of course had illegally blagged acess to the mobile phone records including location data. Plenty more where that came from…