There are certain moments in life when the best thing you can do is stay quiet. Unfortunately, Wayne Rooney obviously hasn’t heard of it since he came out with a confession that could do him so much harm 16 years after the actual incident happened.The Football Association (FA) has sought observations from Wayne Rooney after he revealed he wanted to try and injure an opposition player during Manchester United’s match against Chelsea in April 2006.Even world-class footballers have “normal people” problemsIn an interview published in the Mail on Sunday, Rooney said he changed his studs to “long mental ones” ahead of the match at Stamford Bridge with the intention to “hurt someone”.Rooney recalled: “For that game, I changed them to big, long metal ones – the maximum length you could have because I wanted to try and hurt someone, try and injure someone.”I knew they were going to win that game. You could feel they were a better team at the time, so I changed my studs.”The studs were legal but thinking if there’s a challenge, there I knew I’d want to go in for it properly, basically. I did, actually.”John Terry left the stadium on crutches. I left a hole in his foot, and then I signed my shirt to him after the game.”If you look back when they were celebrating, Terry’s got his crutches from that tackle.”##EDITORS_CHOICE##Thankfully for Rooney, Terry is not mad ad him at all. Moreover, he joked about it on Twitter: 🤣🤣 @WayneRooney is this when you left your stud in my foot? 🤣 https://t.co/sSJH7AwCTK— John Terry (@JohnTerry26) February 7, 2022 The FA fined Roy Keane KSh 23.1 million and gave him a five-match ban in 2002 after he admitted to intentionally hurting then-Manchester City midfielder Alf-Inge Haaland in his autobiography.PREMIER LEAGUE – ROUND 2418/1/22Chelsea – Brighton 1-1 (0-1)/Ziyech 28 – Webster 60/ThursdayNewcastle – Everton 3-1 (1-1)/Holgate 37 og, Fraser 56, Trippier 81 – Lascelles 36 og/West Ham – Watford 1-0 (0-0)/Bowen 68/Burnley – Man. United 1-1 (0-1)/Rodriguez 38 – Pogba 18/Wednesday22:45: (3.40) Norwich (3.25) Crystal Palace (2.35)22:45: (1.12) Man.City (10.5) Brentford (25.0)22:45: (1.65) Tottenham (3.90) Southampton (6.00)23:00: (1.80) Aston Villa (3.70) Leeds (5.00)Thursday22:45: (1.25) Liverpool (7.00) Leicester (12.0)22:45: (3.60) Wolverhampton (3.15) Arsenal (2.30)
