{"id":292747,"date":"2026-02-15T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/292747\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:52:10","slug":"kids-would-maybe-call-it-slavery-patrice-evra-claims-cleaning-cristiano-ronaldos-boots-was-a-reward-at-man-utd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/292747\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Kids would maybe call it slavery!&#8217; &#8211; Patrice Evra claims cleaning Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s boots was &#8216;a reward&#8217; at Man Utd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evra was always happy to take his share of direct instructions from Ferguson, with one particularly memorable team talk being delivered ahead of a Champions League semi-final <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/lists\/patrice-evra-lionel-messi-cristiano-ronaldo-2026-world-cup-final-clash-backs-ex-man-utd-team-mate-join-mls\/blt7339f8dd5edb94da\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clash with Lionel Messi<\/a> and Barcelona in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Evra, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/lists\/cristiano-ronaldo-tipped-for-sensational-return-to-europe-saudi-adventure-at-al-nassr-not-the-end-of-career\/bltc5778268949317e0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lining up alongside five-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner Ronaldo<\/a> at that time, added on facing another GOAT: \u201cFerguson, in front of everyone, started the meeting like this: \u2018Oh guys, today it\u2019s an important game and if we lose it\u2019s because of Patrice\u2019. We looked at each other and I was thinking, \u2018Okay this is a lot of pressure\u2019. Ferguson said: \u2018Patrice, I don\u2019t care about Messi being the best football player in the world, whatever. If we lose \u2013 if we don\u2019t keep Messi quiet \u2013 I am going to blame you\u2019. He knew me and he knew how to manage me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know who I am. I know my education. I know where I grew up. I never wanted Alex Ferguson to say, \u2018Well done, you played a good game\u2019. I wanted Alex Ferguson to kill me and say, \u2018You missed that f*cking pass\u2019. Because I wanted to be perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evra was always happy to take his share of direct instructions from Ferguson, with one particularly memorable team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20872,85,46,15023,3157,2619,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-292747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-c-ronaldo","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-l-messi","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-premier-league","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}