Ferdinand slams Moyes for telling him how to defend

The former Manchester United defender was unhappy with the way Moyes managed the club's players during his doomed time in charge at Old Trafford

Rio Ferdinand has hit out at David Moyes AGAIN over his disastrous reign in charge of Manchester United.

The 36-year-old criticised the Scot on a number of occasions following his departure last April, famously slamming him for banning chips in United's training ground canteen.

Now Ferdinand has revealed he was unhappy with the way the Scot managed him at Old Trafford last season.

He claims that throughout his career Moyes was the only manager to try and teach him how to play with a centre-back partner.

Writing in his column in The Sun, Ferdinand said: "The only manager who thought he should tell me how to play with another centre-back was David Moyes.

"I think it's fair to say I wasn't having that."

In his autobiography #2sides, which he released last year, Ferdinand branded Moyes' doomed United tenure "embarassing".

"Unintentionally, he created a negative vibe where, with Fergie, it had always been positive," he wrote. "He'd slowly lost us. I didn't enjoy playing under him."

"Sometimes our main tactic was the long, high, diagonal cross. It was embarrassing. In one home game against Fulham we had 81 crosses! I was thinking, why are we doing this? Andy Carroll doesn't play for us!"

QPR defender Ferdinand, who racked up 81 England caps during his international career, will retire from professional football at the end of the season.