Rooney packed off to US for training
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November 6, 2010, Saturday
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WAYNE Rooney has been lambasted by the British media, jeered by fans and this weekend will be burnt in effigy in a southeast English town.
No wonder the Manchester United striker is moving to the United States to recover from his latest injury.
Rooney was voted England's player of the year last season but has gone from national hero to public pariah in three months following a public wrangle over his future and newspaper allegations that he cheated on his pregnant wife with a prostitute.
Having persuaded Rooney to drop his threat to quit the club, United is sending the striker to train with sponsor Nike in Portland, Oregon, as he recovers from the ankle injury that has kept him out for three weeks.
"We feel it's in the best interests of him and the club to have a change of scenery for a while," United assistant manager Mike Phelan said yesterday. "He's had a lot of attention recently. We want to create an environment for him that will give him the best opportunity to be fit in a short space of time.
"He needs the conditioning and he can go there without the attention he'd get around here."
That attention has pushed Rooney onto the front page of Britain's tabloid papers as well as the sports pages at the back.
In the past week, papers have printed long-range photographs of Rooney and his wife on vacation in Dubai and reports that the couple's neighbors are unhappy at the noise made at a lavish first birthday party for their son.
Rooney will leave Britain today and miss United's next three matches, including Wednesday's tense local derby against Manchester City.
That would have been a huge blow to United last season, when Rooney scored 26 of the club's 86 Premier League goals, but even his club isn't missing him too much.
After a lackluster World Cup, the 25-year-old Rooney scored only once in seven appearances this season before limping out of a 2-2 English Premier League draw at Bolton Wanderers on September 26.
With Rooney marginalized, Javier Hernandez has scored six times in his first 12 matches for the club and Dimitar Berbatov has struck six times in the Premier League alone for his strongest start in three seasons with United.
Towns across Britain light bonfires and set off fireworks every year to commemorate the failure of a November 5 plot to blow up parliament and King James I in 1605.
Bonfires are traditionally topped with an effigy of conspirator Guy Fawkes but, in a sign of Rooney's current unpopularity, the southeast England town of Edenbridge has picked the burly striker instead.
No wonder the Manchester United striker is moving to the United States to recover from his latest injury.
Rooney was voted England's player of the year last season but has gone from national hero to public pariah in three months following a public wrangle over his future and newspaper allegations that he cheated on his pregnant wife with a prostitute.
Having persuaded Rooney to drop his threat to quit the club, United is sending the striker to train with sponsor Nike in Portland, Oregon, as he recovers from the ankle injury that has kept him out for three weeks.
"We feel it's in the best interests of him and the club to have a change of scenery for a while," United assistant manager Mike Phelan said yesterday. "He's had a lot of attention recently. We want to create an environment for him that will give him the best opportunity to be fit in a short space of time.
"He needs the conditioning and he can go there without the attention he'd get around here."
That attention has pushed Rooney onto the front page of Britain's tabloid papers as well as the sports pages at the back.
In the past week, papers have printed long-range photographs of Rooney and his wife on vacation in Dubai and reports that the couple's neighbors are unhappy at the noise made at a lavish first birthday party for their son.
Rooney will leave Britain today and miss United's next three matches, including Wednesday's tense local derby against Manchester City.
That would have been a huge blow to United last season, when Rooney scored 26 of the club's 86 Premier League goals, but even his club isn't missing him too much.
After a lackluster World Cup, the 25-year-old Rooney scored only once in seven appearances this season before limping out of a 2-2 English Premier League draw at Bolton Wanderers on September 26.
With Rooney marginalized, Javier Hernandez has scored six times in his first 12 matches for the club and Dimitar Berbatov has struck six times in the Premier League alone for his strongest start in three seasons with United.
Towns across Britain light bonfires and set off fireworks every year to commemorate the failure of a November 5 plot to blow up parliament and King James I in 1605.
Bonfires are traditionally topped with an effigy of conspirator Guy Fawkes but, in a sign of Rooney's current unpopularity, the southeast England town of Edenbridge has picked the burly striker instead.
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