Captain Mat Mitchel-King - who works as a model and has body doubled for the likes of Thierry Henry and Rio Ferdinand - admits having two careers can get tiresome.
United - with only one clean sheet to their name this season - fielded centre-halves Wes Brown and Jonny Evans - in for the injured Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand - but it was their front men who were the busier pairing.
Edin Dzeko leveled two minutes before halftime with his 10th league goal this season, with the Bosnia striker cutting inside defender Anton Ferdinand -- who is at the center of the racism allegations aimed at Chelsea's England captain John Terry -- and slotted in a low shot.
In southern Greenland, back in July 2004, a local man - Ferdinand Egede - dug into the soft earth of a field to show me something he'd never expected to see in his lifetime: potatoes.
When Adele died in 1925, she left a will asking her husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, to leave the works to the Austrian Gallery upon his death.
Her family, including her uncle Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, were major shareholders in an Austrian sugar refinery but their savings were plundered from a Swiss bank during the war.
We are a little bit unlucky with the four who are out - Ferdinand, Campbell, Terry and Woodgate - all extremely good central defenders - not only in England but in Europe.
United's off-the-field problems were of the more traditional kind - Rio Ferdinand was out suspended and fellow centre-back Nemanja Vidic was still not fit to return to action.
The knock-on effect of Ferdinand's injury meant that Capello picked Frank Lampard as the new vice-captain and the Chelsea midfielder said that Ferdinand's leadership would be missed in the England camp as well as on the field.
Anton Ferdinand's injury-time own-goal gave United a point, but it was Wiley's display that incurred Ferguson's wrath.
In 2006, after years of litigation, five paintings by Klimt once owned by Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer, two Austrian-Jewish collectors who were the painter's contemporaries, were returned to their heirs by Vienna's Belvedere museum.
Rio Ferdinand's last-ditch tackle denied the Argentine a gilt-edged chance to make it two and United had another let off when the referee waved away penalty calls after Keane fell on the ball in the area.
Rooney's Manchester United team-mate Rio Ferdinand did not join the England camp in Watford.
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England also threatened from set-pieces and Ferdinand had a fine header tipped over the bar by Rensing.
But Norwich looked to have rescued a point seven minutes from time when Grant Holt fired home after his turn out-witted Rio Ferdinand.
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Meanwhile Beckham's former team-mate Rio Ferdinand hopes the midfielder would consider a return to Manchester United if he did decide to turn his back on Spain.
In around 20 years, the Portuguese will be celebrating a similar quincentenary: that of the expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan which in 1519-22 circumnavigated the globe for the first time.
Capello insisted that Ferdinand's chequered past - the defender was fined and banned by the FA for eight months for missing a drugs test - was not an issue for him.
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Center-back Rio Ferdinand charged upfield and directed the ball towards Wayne Rooney, who teed the ball up and then saw his volley balloon over goalkeeper Stuart Taylor after taking a big deflection.
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Fit-again centre-half Rio Ferdinand may replace Jonny Evans to make his first Premier League start of the season, while keeper Edwin van der Sar and striker Dimitar Berbatov are almost certain starters.
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They were almost caught napping early on when Barry Bannan slid a ball inside right-back Wes Brown to find Stewart Downing and it needed centre-back Rio Ferdinand to come across and clear out the danger.
The Premier League champions have struggled with injuries to key defenders at the start of the season with Ferdinand's regular centre-back partner Nemanja Vidic also missing the first two games of the season because of a calf injury.
It is advantage United - who suffered a scare late on when Rio Ferdinand went off after suffering a blow to the ribs - but the narrow lead still leaves the semi-final in the balance ahead of next week's return game.
But Giggs - who came on as a 62nd-minute substitute along with England internationals Gary Neville and Rio Ferdinand, much to Burton's collective chagrin - soon grabbed the fourth as he drove in from a tight angle after the impressive Rossi put him through.
Sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan set out from Seville, Spain, to circumnavigate the globe in 1519.
More than 142, 000 people, including footballer Rio Ferdinand, have signed an e-petition calling for the bill to be dropped.
There he was befriended by Ferdinand Ward, a typical all-hat-and-no-cattle fast talker whom Grant was too naive to recognize as such.
Vote-rigging by President Ferdinand Marcos led to his downfall in 1986.
It may be a cynical question, but would Ferdinand have been quite so absent-minded if his appointment was for a fashion shoot or a lucrative newspaper interview?
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