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

“Because, in the Champions League, I’m just doing what I’ve done for 15 to 20 years. You’re nervous, and there’s a bit of fear, but there was a lot of fear and a lot of nerves with the draw, because it’s the unknown and also the technicalities. 

“The fella – I forget his name now – who was telling me how to do it and guiding me, he was unreal. He was brilliant and knew everything. But when I was asking him questions prior to doing the show, his answers were maybe to give me two or three points for the answer. And I’m thinking, ‘right, I’ve got to give that to the crowd and to the millions of people watching in one answer, not two or three’. 

“It was quite nerve wracking. Until the day we did a rehearsal, on the morning of it, I was like to my missus, ‘this could go really, really, really, really, really badly’.”