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Blue RoonSo…the Wayne Rooney affair. If you’ve been living under a rock (or as I had been over the weekend, somewhere away from the internet), it was widely reported in the press that England’s talismanic striker had indulged in some extra martial business, with a prostitute, while his wife was pregnant. Fabio Capello is going to assess to the strikers mindset, before deciding whether to play him in probably our toughest qualifying match for Euro 2012 (liveblog here tomorrow) against Switzerland.

First off, assuming the speculation is true, the obviously it is pretty reprehensible of Rooney, and he joins the unlovable rouges gallery that is the England Squad (see also, John Terry, Steven Gerrard, etc). A genuinely awful thing to do.

On the other hand, I’m not exactly going to take the press side with it either. The revelations were perfectly timed to try and derail the England squad coming between two qualifying matches, and presumably they’ve had this hanging over his head for awhile, which make explain his distracted performances in the World Cup.

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