THE GOLDEN DISCOURSE
Whether it was Archimedes’s eureka moment in the bath, Isaac Newton’s in the orchard or Doc Brown’s in the toilet while hanging a clock, many of the world’s most important discoveries have been made in the most unlikely locations. It is a list to which we can now presumably add the recording studio in which Rio Ferdinand presents his what-it-says-on-the-tin Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast. Of course, in discovering the principle of buoyancy, the law of universal gravitation or how best to transform a sports car with gull-wing doors into a time machine, the aforementioned scientists all chanced upon inspired moments of enlightenment that had never previously occurred to anybody else. When the lightbulb lit up over Steven Gerrard’s head while in conversation with Rio, he had clearly just figured out something rival fans have known for the best part of 30 years. Not so much a mic-drop as a penny-drop moment, it finally dawned on the former England international why the team with which he won 114 caps repeatedly failed to live up to expectation.
