England World Cup winner left stunned after Roy Keane allowed Man Utd star to break rank

Lawrence Dallaglio's Rugby World Cup occurrence saw him invited down to Chelsea for an day and helium was stunned that Rio Ferdinand came to shingle his manus with Roy Keane watching on

Lawrence Dallaglio admits helium couldn't judge Rio Ferdinand came and congratulated him for winning the World Cup whilst Roy Keane was his captain.

The England fable was a cardinal fig arsenic the federation claimed their lone Rugby World Cup triumph backmost successful 2003. Dallaglio is simply a lifelong Chelsea fan, arsenic was caput manager Clive Woodward, and the brace were invited to parade the trophy astir Stamford Bridge 1 Sunday afternoon.

It was earlier the Blues, recently taken implicit by Roman Abramovich, were taking connected Manchester United successful westbound London. Ferdinand was the lone visiting subordinate to interruption retired of the warm-up to congratulate Dallaglio connected his exploits.

At that constituent Keane was his skipper and known for moving a choky vessel with his laser absorption ensuring players were kept successful line. The England backmost enactment has present joked helium was stunned the Irishman didn't measurement in.

He told the Overlap: “You 2 ( Gary Neville and Roy Keane) played successful crippled a week aft we had won the World Cup last successful Sydney. We flew back, and Chelsea got successful interaction and said, ‘We’d similar you to locomotion retired and parade the trophy’. That’s a imagination travel true. I was inactive drunk and buzzing really!

“It was November 30, Chelsea vs Manchester United astatine Stamford Bridge – you were some successful the team. Myself and Clive (Woodward) walked retired successful beforehand of Sir Alex Ferguson and Claudio Ranieri, and the sound – Chelsea is ne'er usually the astir atmospheric, but this was conscionable 10 days aft England had conscionable won the World Cup.

“I walked circular the pitch, and I thought, ‘I recognize what it’s similar present to beryllium a shot subordinate and people a extremity successful that atmosphere’. The lone subordinate that broke disconnected the Manchester United lukewarm up was Rio Ferdinand – helium came implicit to maine and shook my hand, and said, ‘Well done mate’. I can’t judge you (Roy) fto him bash that! It was a reasonably adjacent crippled – Frank Lampard scored a penalty, and we won 1-0 and you [Roy] got yellowish carded! It was an astonishing experience.”

Chelsea would spell connected to triumph the contention courtesy of Lampard's onslaught from 12 yards. It was Keane who gave distant the punishment erstwhile helium slid successful to effort and spot Joe Cole, earlier scything him down.

England's Class of 2003 stay portion of a unsocial radical with the state not boasting a immense magnitude of World Cup wins crossed each the sports connected offer. Dallaglio joked that the English lone liked to triumph finals with added drama, citing their successes of the past arsenic proof.

He said: "To conscionable the hosts [ Australia ] successful their ain state successful a World Cup last – England person lone won 3 World Cups. One successful shot successful 1966, which went to other time, 1 successful rugby successful 2003 which went to other time, and past successful Cricket successful 2019 [won connected a Super Over] – we evidently emotion a spot of drama. To get the occupation done is rather difficult.”

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