VIDEO: Viewers react to Rio Ferdinand’s bizarre dig at the great Zinedine Zidane

During his glittering career, Zinedine Zidane elevated football.

Not only can the legendary Frenchman boast World Cup, European Championship, Champions League, La Liga and Serie A winners medals amongst many others, but he won them in style. Rarely has a player married aesthetic beauty with end product so perfectly. The Real Madrid manager is quite rightly regarded as an eternal giant of the game. But not everyone is a fan. Appearing as a pundit on BT Sport during their Champions League coverage of Roma vs Real Madrid, Rio Ferdinand offered up a very bizarre opinion on the Bernabeu institution. "When I think of Messi, Ronaldinho, the real Ronaldo - R9. They got me off my seat a lot more than Zidane," explained Ferdinand. "He was beautiful to watch but he is not up there with my top players to watch, not up there wiith my top five or ten of all time greatest players." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeI1XJW9B5A Understandably, many viewers found the former Man United defender's comments completely uncalled for and plain wrong... https://twitter.com/SamMcGuire90/status/700036855920795648 https://twitter.com/rosslundie5/status/700041482699464704 https://twitter.com/wazza2312/status/700042569259028481 https://twitter.com/Adamskibeats8/status/700046481114468353 https://twitter.com/alexmac55/status/700042215121424385 https://twitter.com/Needs9/status/700037945638658048 https://twitter.com/ScotsHutchie/status/700037396839211008 https://twitter.com/Jaimehop32/status/700045466155753472