Footy followers thought Sky Sports News had turned very X-rated after they misheard a report on Wayne Rooney.
The Manchester United legend noticed his Birmingham City facet slip to their eighth Championship defeat in 13 video games since he took cost on Boxing Day. They have been beat 3-1 on house soil by Stoke City.
Rooney was livid together with his facet and admitted post-match he’d have substituted all 11 of the crew at half-time if he might’ve. Reporting on it immediately (December 27), Sky presenter Rob Wotton stated: “Lots to come including Wayne Rooney, who admits he’d have subbed his entire Birmingham team off at half-time if he’d had the chance.”
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However, the “subbed” sounded just like “sucked” – giving an entire new that means to the quote. Sharing a clip on social media, one fan wrote: “Rooney’s wanted to do what at half-time?”
“I suppose that’s one way of teaching the lads how to finish,” joked a second, whereas a 3rd bemoaned: “Things I wish I could un-hear.”
A fourth quipped: “Personally, I’d settle for half an orange like the old days.” And a fifth argued: “Don’t think Rooney’s new age motivational ideas will catch on.”
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Stoke have been two to the great on the break due to first-half objectives from Jordan Thompson and Lynden Gooch. Andre Vidigal made it three after the restart earlier than Jay Stansfield scored a comfort.
“Ideally, you wish you could have 11 subs as I could have changed all 11 players at half-time,” stated Rooney. “We just weren’t doing the right things – the basics. It wasn’t lack of effort, that would be unfair to say. It was lack of game knowledge.
“It’s onerous to place into phrases. I did not see that efficiency coming. I did not recognise the crew on the market on the pitch. It’s irritating as a result of over the previous couple of video games we might made some actual strides, so this was troublesome to take.
“It wasn’t the result, or the performance, or anything we wanted to be honest. It was unrecognisable in the way we played. I felt the players didn’t want to take the ball, they didn’t press the way we wanted them to. The goals we conceded were crazy and we didn’t deserve anything out of the game.”