Wayne Rooney withdraws from England squad, minor knee injury
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I've ran into a couple of players on a night out in manc, Dominic Matteo is a right nob by the way.
the thing is that Rooney is meant to be professional footballer; who is on the decline needs to drop a stone or two and beer / wine dosn't help. A stone off can make all the difference.
Heard he was out last night? 365? True?
the thing is that Rooney is meant to be professional footballer; who is on the decline needs to drop a stone or two and beer / wine dosn't help. A stone off can make all the difference.
Heard he was out last night? 365? True?
Much better analogy!
Phil Jagielka, but lets be honest here... nobody cares about him unless you're Moyes.
In response to these Rooney revelations I'm curious who'll get on the end of Mourinho's character assassination, cause you know... someone has to pay for angering our gaffer and it surely won't be the perpetrator! Our manager's too complex for that.
Joking aside, absolute ballbag behaviour that from Rooney.
Prime suspect for leaking to the press of-late, shithorse of a player & smashed, but blames the pictures, not the act.
Really wish we'd got rid when he first spat his dummy out in 2010.
What a shit captain.
Talksport laying into Rooney over drunk pics in the Sun. Anyone seen the pics?
Even a drunk Rooney should know he got to be getting cozier with sugar tits and not the full kit wanker.
was thinking the same!Back on point, by the state of him in that picture it's more than a few pints, you don't look that rough unless you're at the point where you start pissing in the sink instead of the toilet.
There's a reason why he's declining rapidly when the likes of Ronaldo is keeping himself in peak physical condition, you're being paid massive amounts of cash and your career finishes at what, average age of 35? You'd think a half smart person would do anything in his power to maximise his potential earnings up until that point.
He's clearly the stupidest fecker to walk the earth. The scrutiny he has been under and he goes and does that.
It's been time to sell Rooney for a long time, sooner the club can get rid the better.
His on the pitch form is terrible enough, Ronaldinho got sold from Barcelona when he was their best player partly due to his party antics and being "too good for training".
Rooney is one of the worst players, does stupid things in his free-time and all the training in the world wouldn't fix his problems.
His on the pitch form is terrible enough, Ronaldinho got sold from Barcelona when he was their best player partly due to his party antics and being "too good for training".
Rooney is one of the worst players, does stupid things in his free-time and all the training in the world wouldn't fix his problems.
Seriously brainless guy. I mean yeah nothing wrong with getting pissed but in his position under the scrutiny he's currently under, with people talking about his physical decline, three days before an international against Spain, it is absolute madness to go out and get pissed. It's an embarrassing lack of self awareness which basically sums him up for the last 5/6 years.
I seriously hope Mourinho isn't considering starting him against Arsenal either.
I seriously hope Mourinho isn't considering starting him against Arsenal either.
You got to laugh at the usual suspects defending Rooney in here.
No player should be drinking during the season let alone getting pissed!
No player should be drinking during the season let alone getting pissed!
He has little value on the pitch anymore, so if that´s his idea of leadership why the hell is he on the national team? What a perfect opportunity (and excuse) for Southgate to retire him and move on. Will he do it? Of course not. That´s the English way.
The getting knocked out in his living room last season (?) too, he's just not a very good role-model.
Yes he's a human being and he's allowed to have fun, but he's also on around £300K P/W including sponsors and part of it is how he conducts himself.
He can't even control a football or pass one anymore, it's embarrassing.
Ladies and Gentleman, I present the Man Utd & England captain....
I give a feck when he withdraws from United....I don't much care about him anymore. Shame that the Rooney saga is like the never ending story.
It's okay to drink.
He has not played well for some time now. But I won't be a part of this Rooney hate movement.
He is still my favorite player. he seems like a genuinely good guy.
He has not played well for some time now. But I won't be a part of this Rooney hate movement.
He is still my favorite player. he seems like a genuinely good guy.
He looks paralytic in both photos.
As others have said, you would seriously think he'd steer clear of this sort of shite at the moment. Everything seems like it's in the balance for him at the moment and he goes and does this. It's almost as if he's forcing us to get rid off him.
As others have said, you would seriously think he'd steer clear of this sort of shite at the moment. Everything seems like it's in the balance for him at the moment and he goes and does this. It's almost as if he's forcing us to get rid off him.
He's the captain of Manchester United which has the biggest fan base for a football club in the world and the captain of the English NT.
Plus he's getting paid £300K p/w including sponsors, footballers are also a "brand" now. "A genuinely good guy" doesn't condone or excuse those actions.
He is supposed to be leading by example for both clubs, being a role-model to kids.
Do you not feel he should be moved on from the club? or do you feel he should still be the captain and be kept at United because he's seems " a genuinely good guy".
I am trying to get some points right here.
It seems like, if he is still banging in tonnes of goals for fun now, and the past few seasons, the level of moral high ground or of physical requirement here seems can be adjusted lower.
It seems like, if he is still banging in tonnes of goals for fun now, and the past few seasons, the level of moral high ground or of physical requirement here seems can be adjusted lower.
It's not ok as a modern day athlete. Stan Collymore recently did an interview and confirms that physios do not want players drinking and the whole drinking to let your hair down ended a long time ago. Fans need to stop naive about this!
I think the mental pressure has now got to the poor guy. His wife is obviously worried for him, judging by her tweets. Feel quite badly for him to be losing his abilities so publicly and so fast. He's not a bad person, just overpaid.
It was a friendly and this happens all the time with Internattional sides, it's hardly unusual.
Mou already dropped him, not sure what you're moaning about
Someone should tweet this in response to Phil's ridiculous shirt donation tweet.
Some people are so far up Rooney's arse, I don't even know how they manage to breathe.
Very, very harsh on Arsenal!
He could drink every night of the year and I'll be fine with it - as long as he's no where near the matchday squad that is
One way to look at it is, instead of committing himself to get into shape and justify his name on the team sheet, he does the opposite and doesn't take care of his body. Hence his poor form is a factor that makes this situation worse, as it reflects a sense of self entitlement that he didn't need to make the necessary sacrifices to keep fit. This does not mean that it is fine for him to get drunk if he is in good form.
On a side note, it is irrelevant that it was an off day and that the next match is several days away. This is the middle of the season, and training days are important to prepare for upcoming matches. He also did not "just have a drink". He looked dead drunk in that picture.
Moral police have got it all wrong amid Wayne Rooney circus
As Wayne Rooney was forced to issue a grovelling apology to the shell-shocked nation of England on Wednesday night, the sneering moral police toasted another famous victory.
Images of Rooney apparently drunk in the company of his England team-mates and some fans last Sunday were described by numerous self-absorbed, attention seeking observers as shocking, yet can anyone explain why a footballer having a few drinks seven days before his potential next match is an incident that demands a statement confessing shameful remorse?
It has been open season on Rooney’s ‘loutish’ behaviour in the English media over the last 48 hours, with a player who has been on the wrong end of media headlines for a long time finally hung out to dry after he used a sanctioned team bonding session to drink a few too many beers.
When you hear details of the scandalous behaviour he indulged in, the scale of his crimes are put into perspective. Apparently, amid his drunken tirade of happiness, Wazza tried to play the piano when he was a little worse for wear and he even gave his sponsored English kit to a fan. Can you imagine the horror of such an act of kindness….
This should be a non-story, yet there has been hours of bile muttered on radio shows and acres of print set aside for self-righteous fools who all seemed keen to suggest Rooney’s £300,000-a-week salary at United should mean that he is not seen to be drinking in such a ‘reckless’ manner.
On this basis, top footballers should not leave their homes from the moment they break into the first team until the day they announce their retirement, when presumably they are permitted by the guardians of decency to enjoy some leisure time doing whatever might take their fancy.
In the eyes of the self-appointed guardians of morality, the life of an A-list football has become a highly paid prison sentence lasting around 18 years, with the millions they earn only to be spent on high speed cars, the odd power boat and maybe (if they do really well) a Learjet that would allow them to get away from the nonsense that now surround them.
We don’t need to feel sorry for footballers as they earn too much money for that kind of sentiment to be appropriate, but they must feel like lottery winners who need to keep their success private and it does not need to be like this.
Are they meant to lock themselves in their mansions boasting the biggest gates on offer to protect them and only go out for training and matches? Is that the most fun they are allowed to have? Don’t let them enjoy their success, as after all, kids will be shocked if they see their heroes having fun.
Let’s be honest here, does anyone seriously see Wayne Rooney as a role model for the English nation after his history of sexual indiscretions with models and other alleged incidents with more mature ladies of the night?
Of course not. He is a footballer who has faults like all of us, but his drinking session last Sunday is not a stick that should be used to beat him with.
The debate over whether drinking alcohol is the right way to refuel the body is an issue most airing their expert opinion in recent days have little medical knowledge and in the opinion of Liverpool and Republic of Ireland legend John Aldridge, team bonding was one of the primary reasons why Jack Charlton’s legendary Ireland teams of the late 1980s and early 1990s had an edge over their rivals.
“I would get into trouble if I revealed some of the tales that went on with the Ireland teams at major tournaments,” remembers Aldridge fondly.
“The Ireland squads that competed at Euro 88, World Cup 1990 and USA’94 had an amazing time on and off the pitch, with the smiles we shared mixed with a determination to do Ireland proud as we put our country on the map in international football.
“Sadly, the world has changed since the days when the Ireland team I was proud to be a part of were playing in major finals, with the first trip to Germany in 1988 an experience none of us will ever forget.
“Don’t think for a moment that we spent all our time getting pissed and not paying attention to the job in hand on the pitch because that was never the case.
“The impression you might get from some of the tales that have emerged from Ireland trips down the years is that the lads all went away for a big piss-up and only stopped boozing to fit in a few matches. Let me tell you, it wasn’t like that at all.
“We were highly professional when it came to the build up to the matches, but Jack understood the need to let the lads have some time to relax when the moment was right.
“A few days before a game, he would let us go out and have a few beers and we took full advantage of the freedom.
“I remember the England lads back in 1988 and 1990 being jealous of the freedom we were getting, with the boys in our dressing room at Liverpool amazed by the laughs we had on Ireland trips.
“So while the England players were locked up in their hotel bored stiff and virtually needing to put a tie on to go to bed to confirm with their strict regime, we were out with the fans and joining in with the party. We knew that we were lucky to be in our environment and made the most of it. It’s a shame modern players are not as fortunate as we were.”
Aldridge speaks of more simple days, when football fans asked for a photo alongside their heroes with the intention of putting it in a frame on their mantelpiece.
In 2016, it seems that ‘supporters’ delight in taking photos of star names in unfortunate poses with the intention of selling them to a newspaper for a huge sum of cash. It is a nasty snippet of how our culture has changed over the last three decades.
The end result is that our sporting heroes no longer mingle freely with the common folk for fear of becoming the next victim of the kind of circus that has blown up around Rooney this week.
If Rooney’s boozing affects his form with United and England, he will not earn £300,000-a-week at Old Trafford any more and his days at the top of the game will come to an end. That is his problem and none of us should care whether he likes a drink in a spare time or not.
We should only judge him on a football pitch and anything else he gets up to is his own business.
Just for once, wouldn’t it be nice to see the mounted political correctness brigade step down from stallions and accept that footballers - or any personality for that matter - are allowed to let their hair down once in a while.
Sadly, in an era when those who want to tell is how to behave are given a far bigger platform than they are due, this argument may fall on deaf ears.
What a shame.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...-wrong-amid-wayne-rooney-circus-35222705.html
As Wayne Rooney was forced to issue a grovelling apology to the shell-shocked nation of England on Wednesday night, the sneering moral police toasted another famous victory.
Images of Rooney apparently drunk in the company of his England team-mates and some fans last Sunday were described by numerous self-absorbed, attention seeking observers as shocking, yet can anyone explain why a footballer having a few drinks seven days before his potential next match is an incident that demands a statement confessing shameful remorse?
It has been open season on Rooney’s ‘loutish’ behaviour in the English media over the last 48 hours, with a player who has been on the wrong end of media headlines for a long time finally hung out to dry after he used a sanctioned team bonding session to drink a few too many beers.
When you hear details of the scandalous behaviour he indulged in, the scale of his crimes are put into perspective. Apparently, amid his drunken tirade of happiness, Wazza tried to play the piano when he was a little worse for wear and he even gave his sponsored English kit to a fan. Can you imagine the horror of such an act of kindness….
This should be a non-story, yet there has been hours of bile muttered on radio shows and acres of print set aside for self-righteous fools who all seemed keen to suggest Rooney’s £300,000-a-week salary at United should mean that he is not seen to be drinking in such a ‘reckless’ manner.
On this basis, top footballers should not leave their homes from the moment they break into the first team until the day they announce their retirement, when presumably they are permitted by the guardians of decency to enjoy some leisure time doing whatever might take their fancy.
In the eyes of the self-appointed guardians of morality, the life of an A-list football has become a highly paid prison sentence lasting around 18 years, with the millions they earn only to be spent on high speed cars, the odd power boat and maybe (if they do really well) a Learjet that would allow them to get away from the nonsense that now surround them.
We don’t need to feel sorry for footballers as they earn too much money for that kind of sentiment to be appropriate, but they must feel like lottery winners who need to keep their success private and it does not need to be like this.
Are they meant to lock themselves in their mansions boasting the biggest gates on offer to protect them and only go out for training and matches? Is that the most fun they are allowed to have? Don’t let them enjoy their success, as after all, kids will be shocked if they see their heroes having fun.
Let’s be honest here, does anyone seriously see Wayne Rooney as a role model for the English nation after his history of sexual indiscretions with models and other alleged incidents with more mature ladies of the night?
Of course not. He is a footballer who has faults like all of us, but his drinking session last Sunday is not a stick that should be used to beat him with.
The debate over whether drinking alcohol is the right way to refuel the body is an issue most airing their expert opinion in recent days have little medical knowledge and in the opinion of Liverpool and Republic of Ireland legend John Aldridge, team bonding was one of the primary reasons why Jack Charlton’s legendary Ireland teams of the late 1980s and early 1990s had an edge over their rivals.
“I would get into trouble if I revealed some of the tales that went on with the Ireland teams at major tournaments,” remembers Aldridge fondly.
“The Ireland squads that competed at Euro 88, World Cup 1990 and USA’94 had an amazing time on and off the pitch, with the smiles we shared mixed with a determination to do Ireland proud as we put our country on the map in international football.
“Sadly, the world has changed since the days when the Ireland team I was proud to be a part of were playing in major finals, with the first trip to Germany in 1988 an experience none of us will ever forget.
“Don’t think for a moment that we spent all our time getting pissed and not paying attention to the job in hand on the pitch because that was never the case.
“The impression you might get from some of the tales that have emerged from Ireland trips down the years is that the lads all went away for a big piss-up and only stopped boozing to fit in a few matches. Let me tell you, it wasn’t like that at all.
“We were highly professional when it came to the build up to the matches, but Jack understood the need to let the lads have some time to relax when the moment was right.
“A few days before a game, he would let us go out and have a few beers and we took full advantage of the freedom.
“I remember the England lads back in 1988 and 1990 being jealous of the freedom we were getting, with the boys in our dressing room at Liverpool amazed by the laughs we had on Ireland trips.
“So while the England players were locked up in their hotel bored stiff and virtually needing to put a tie on to go to bed to confirm with their strict regime, we were out with the fans and joining in with the party. We knew that we were lucky to be in our environment and made the most of it. It’s a shame modern players are not as fortunate as we were.”
Aldridge speaks of more simple days, when football fans asked for a photo alongside their heroes with the intention of putting it in a frame on their mantelpiece.
In 2016, it seems that ‘supporters’ delight in taking photos of star names in unfortunate poses with the intention of selling them to a newspaper for a huge sum of cash. It is a nasty snippet of how our culture has changed over the last three decades.
The end result is that our sporting heroes no longer mingle freely with the common folk for fear of becoming the next victim of the kind of circus that has blown up around Rooney this week.
If Rooney’s boozing affects his form with United and England, he will not earn £300,000-a-week at Old Trafford any more and his days at the top of the game will come to an end. That is his problem and none of us should care whether he likes a drink in a spare time or not.
We should only judge him on a football pitch and anything else he gets up to is his own business.
Just for once, wouldn’t it be nice to see the mounted political correctness brigade step down from stallions and accept that footballers - or any personality for that matter - are allowed to let their hair down once in a while.
Sadly, in an era when those who want to tell is how to behave are given a far bigger platform than they are due, this argument may fall on deaf ears.
What a shame.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...-wrong-amid-wayne-rooney-circus-35222705.html
And people wonder why footballers keep themselves away from the public. Not condoning what Rooney did ,think he's on the decline anyway. But with these camera phones nowadays everyone wants make make money .
He's done physically and mentally.
Joking aside, absolute ballbag behaviour that from Rooney.
Prime suspect for leaking to the press of-late, shithorse of a player & smashed, but blames the pictures, not the act.
Really wish we'd got rid when he first spat his dummy out in 2010.
What a shit captain.
Had SAF taken one more season perhaps he's been gone then. Now it's up to Mourinho to sort this out.
Thats a dreadful article. Sounds like the ramblings of a drunk in the pub.
Saying people cant judge whether he should be drinking because they're not doctors and hey anyway a past succesful team used to drink so it must be okay
Saying people cant judge whether he should be drinking because they're not doctors and hey anyway a past succesful team used to drink so it must be okay
It is. Peter Storey used to say that Palmer is one of the worst football journalists.
Not defending Rooney but you're a mug if you think pros don't drink.
Some top pros don't during the season but plenty do.
Agree that rooney is a prat for doing this though. looks battered.
no offence but is the Irish national team the standard we aspire to at Manchester United in terms of professionalism?
Regardless of the "knee injury" SURELY he could have turned up for training to train other body parts etc?
Its extremely lazy to not train "anything" just because your knee is "off".
The great players, the great professionals, come back from a long injury in even better condition than before.
Wazza is neither of them, as for Phil Neville he's clearly a hypocrite and like the rest of Rooney's PR bitch's is being paid by Stretford.
Its extremely lazy to not train "anything" just because your knee is "off".
The great players, the great professionals, come back from a long injury in even better condition than before.
Wazza is neither of them, as for Phil Neville he's clearly a hypocrite and like the rest of Rooney's PR bitch's is being paid by Stretford.
He didn't train because he was in bed with a hangover. This knee excuse is BS.
Agree. We complain there's no bond between footballer and fan anymore but who can blame them.
You can't get drunk anymore without having to apologise to the children of the nation.
Footballers were distant MANY years ago. You honestly think what he did was not unprofessional? you realise he had more than just 1/2 beers on a quiet night don't you