England coach Roy Hodgson has taken aim at sniping Rio Ferdinand. The QPR veteran claims Hodgson's England staff treat the players like "babies".
When the quote was put to him, Hodgson said: "No, I have no response to that at all.
"We don't treat them like babies and I don't know what he is referring to.
"Rio Ferdinand has never actually been in a squad that I have coached or managed, so I have no comment about it whatsoever. It belongs to the past."
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