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Why does Wayne Rooney play football?
There he was in a match where he had just rounded off a great hat-trick with a penalty and all he could do was wheel towards the TV camera and snarl the F-word at the screen for everyone in the lunch-time live audience to hear.
For this foul-mouthed act, witnessed by adults and children alike, Mr Rooney released an apology which explained that it was because he relieving the tension he experienced, so I guess Alan Shearer’s ‘let’s just ignore it’ on Match of the Day is OK.
Is it heck – if Rooney had behaved on the street like that he would have been arrested!
It was also said that he was upset because the cameraman asked him to kiss the screen, as a West Ham player had done earlier when he scored a penalty – I think a polite ‘No’ might have been sufficient to that one!
I guess he plays because he earns over £200,000 a week for his obvious skills, and needs every penny of that so he can pay someone £200 for getting him a pack of cigarettes when he’s resting in a hotel room. He also must enjoy the adulation because he hasn’t quite got the looks for celebrity or the skills for anything else.
Contrast his behaviour with that of Kumar Sangakkarra when the Sri Lankan skipper in Cricket’s recent World Cup had to speak immediately after his team had lost to India in the final. He was clearly dreadfully disappointed but congratulated his own team, and said well done to MS Dhoni and the rest of the winning Indian team. No histrionics, no blaming the match officials – just good honest sportsmanship.
I was delighted that Mr Rooney was banned for two matches – I’d make him watch Kumar’s dignified acceptance of defeat throughout the time those games are on – but I doubt he would understand, anyway!
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