Ferdinand looked to have sealed it when he calmly sidefooted a loose ball into the bottom corner after a cross from the third former Tottenham player in the Sunderland starting line-up, the influential Steed Malbranque, caused yet more problems.
He sat in his car for the next 17 minutes while the team tried to get to the bottom of the problem which apparently was a connector that had worked loose and needed re-attaching.