Sunday 20 November 2016

Neville hits out at FA’s treatment of Rooney incident

Gary Neville says the FA have handled the controversy surrounding Wayne Rooney “terribly”.

On Saturday England and Manchester United captain Rooney labelled the media “disgraceful” after being forced to apologise following the emergence of pictures in which the 31-year-old appeared drunk at a a wedding held at the national team’s hotel on Saturday night.

Reports this weekend suggested Rooney’s England team-mates Jordan Henderson and Adam Lallana visited a strip club while on international duty.

However, former England defender Neville, who was also part of Roy Hodgson’s backroom staff, is unhappy the FA will no longer allow players nights off following the negative publicity.

“A “Moral high ground” forced apology and you open a can of never ending worms!! Open season now. Handled terribly. Naivety beyond belief….,” he tweeted.

“A precedent has now been set for every minor incident and players day off cancelled! Won’t work!!!”

Challenged on the England players’ behaviour during their time off between matches, Neville added: “It had happened for the previous 4 years without incident … The players go home with their clubs? Why not trust them?

“With their clubs they go home every lunchtime and train at 10am next day? You have to trust them. If they are going to drink they will.

“Looking at the programme for 8 wks for teams in EU this was probably the best night to have a few drinks. A friendly after beating Scotland.

“Anyway we now have a situation where two good lads in Lallana / Henderson have to be forced to make an apology !! Shocking handling of this.”

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