Manchester United’s start striker, Wayne Rooney, was rather upset over some comments made about him during yesterday’s match against Cardiff City.
Two football commentators, Martin Tyler and Graeme Souness said that Rooney was supposed to be shown a red card for kicking Jordon Mutch. However, Rooney did not receive a red card and only ended up getting a fair warning in the shape of a yellow card from the referee.
Obviously, the two commentators did not agree with the refree’s decision, and was quick to voice their opinions.
Graeme Souness said: “He (should be off, there’s no argument. Why the ref has given him a yellow card is beyond me…[sic] I don’t know what Wayne is thinking of. He’s got an exploding head, we know that. That’s just borne out of frustration.”
But, Wayne wasn’t prepared to take their comments lying down. The English international tweeted some backlashes at the commentators, defending his yellow card decision.
In three consecutive tweets, Rooney defended himself – and by extension the referee – and even admitted that it was a bad tackle. He tweeted:
“Just watched game back. I agree mine was bad tackle and ref dealt with it. And Martin Tyler didn’t shut up about it all game,” Rooney wrote on his official Twitter account.
“Then someone slaps someone in face and he doesn’t speak a word about it. I like Martin but that’s poor from him.
“Sourness (says) the rules are u kick out u should be off. Souness (says) medel gives left hook he’s done his job. Haha brilliant.”
Besides being shown the yellow card early on in the game, Rooney proved that it didn’t bother him as much, and proceeded to score the opening goal. he also helped set up United’s second, which was scored by Patrice Evra.
In the tweets, Rooney referred to Souness as ‘Sourness’ – and not by mistake. Souness is also an ex-manager of Liverpool, so perhaps there was already some bad blood.
In his tweets, Rooney also refers to a slap. This is apparently a reference to Cardiff midfielder, Gary Medel, who had appeared to have slapped United’s latest signing, Marouane Fellaini in the face. Nothing was said of this incident by either commentator.
United’s manager, David Moyes, also stood up for his star player saying that “I didn’t think he deserved any more than a yellow card.”
The end result, however, didn’t impress either team – the two teams drew 2-all and the match was rather the disappointment.
Source: SuperSport