Forget Bertie, our Rio is the real Teflon Man

ONE of the English tabloids did an amusing back page for once on Saturday, based on a picture of United players waiting for their train at Macclesfield, all hooded-up.

As Fergie lumbered into the leftside of the frame, the sub head cheekily asked: “Is that elderly man safe around all those hoodies?”

By full-time at Spurs, of course, one might have been better off inverting the question. Chief hoodie Rio, looking every inch the street gangster, is down in my notes as having a poor game: “feebly allowed Dawson a dangerous header … at fault for Berbatov’s over the bar effort,” and so forth. Come Monday’s “Sun” newspaper, Rio had become a 7/10 performer and “one of the few to produce the goods.”