Rio Ferdinand launch his new autobiography
Rio Ferdinand said he had "no personal feud" with the chairman of the
anti-racism body Kick It Out, Herman Ouseley, but the former Manchester
United reiterated his criticism of the organisation.
Speaking at the launch of his new autobiography, #2Sides, the 35-year-old said he was disappointed by the support Kick It Out offered his family when brother Anton was court up in Chelsea captain John Terry's racism court case.
"Over my career I'd always been asked to wear a T-shirt and I'd always done that and that's to give the organisation the exposure it needs to keep spreading the word," he said.
"This opportunity came, and my question to them was: 'You wear a T-shirt on the way into that courtroom, you let people know what this case is about and that you're here not just for my brother but you're here for two footballers in a racism case.' I said: 'You're a part of it, the organisation standing shoulder to shoulder with these guys', and they didn't."
Earlier in the week Ouseley had said Ferdinand was "selling a book of trivia".
Ferdinand himself raised doubts over at least one section of his new book.
A section of #2Sides reads: "Outside the court, I saw Clarke Carlisle of the PFA doing interviews. I said: 'Come in the courtroom.'"
But on Thursday night Ferdinand said he did not attend the trial in person.
"I wasn't there, I didn't need to be there," he said.
"I was speaking with my brother, there all the time for my brother when he needed me; he didn't need me to be in that court."
Speaking at the launch of his new autobiography, #2Sides, the 35-year-old said he was disappointed by the support Kick It Out offered his family when brother Anton was court up in Chelsea captain John Terry's racism court case.
"Over my career I'd always been asked to wear a T-shirt and I'd always done that and that's to give the organisation the exposure it needs to keep spreading the word," he said.
"This opportunity came, and my question to them was: 'You wear a T-shirt on the way into that courtroom, you let people know what this case is about and that you're here not just for my brother but you're here for two footballers in a racism case.' I said: 'You're a part of it, the organisation standing shoulder to shoulder with these guys', and they didn't."
Earlier in the week Ouseley had said Ferdinand was "selling a book of trivia".
Ferdinand himself raised doubts over at least one section of his new book.
A section of #2Sides reads: "Outside the court, I saw Clarke Carlisle of the PFA doing interviews. I said: 'Come in the courtroom.'"
But on Thursday night Ferdinand said he did not attend the trial in person.
"I wasn't there, I didn't need to be there," he said.
"I was speaking with my brother, there all the time for my brother when he needed me; he didn't need me to be in that court."
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