Perhaps footballers should take a look at their cricketing brothers on how to behave. I expect they celebrate and have a good time when everything is going well and feel down when it is not but they don't appear to let the fans down with disgraceful unruly off the pitch antics and they can put a sentence or two together too when addressing their public. If it was a rugby player who behaved badly as one or two have done they are out, kaput.

With Rooney it is not so much what he has done in his personal life it is just the man. For the length of time Colleen has known him you would have thought that she must know the real man well by now unfortunately babies don't change bad relationships or husbands. His attitude towards her was so cold, similar to his attitude during the world cup. From beginning to end he had a face like a smacked backside. George Best at least was a charmer. I am not saying that excuses it but his demon mostly was alcohol (I am not sure if drugs were involved) and it did get him in the end like a lot of 60/70s icons.