Manchester United legend, Rio Ferdinand has come out to explain Wayne Rooney’s reaction to Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard dancing on Instagram while MUFC struggled. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, Rooney told him that he could not tell Pogba and Lingard about how wrong their behavior was because times have changed in football.
Rio added that Wayne said his teammates would stare at him like he is mad if he tried to correct them.
His words, “I’ll tell you when it changed, from the outside at least. I rang Wazza [Rooney] when I saw Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard dancing on Instagram when we were sixth in the league. I rang Wazza and said, ‘what’s going on here? How are you allowing this?’ And he said, ‘you can’t say nothing man, it’s not the same anymore’. He said, ‘it’s not just those two, there would be a big group looking at me like I’m mad if I said anything'”
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Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top division in the English football league system.
Nicknamed the Red Devils, they were founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, but changed their name to Manchester United in 1902. After a spell playing in Clayton, Manchester, the club moved to their current stadium, Old Trafford, in 1910.
Alex Ferguson and his assistant Archie Knox arrived from Aberdeen on the day of Atkinson’s dismissal, and guided the club to an 11th-place finish in the league. Despite a second-place finish in 1987–88, the club was back in 11th place the following season. Reportedly on the verge of being dismissed, Ferguson’s job was saved by victory over Crystal Palace in the 1990 FA Cup final.
The following season, Manchester United claimed their first UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup title. That triumph allowed the club to compete in the European Super Cup for the first time, where United beat European Cup holders Red Star Belgrade 1–0 at Old Trafford. The club appeared in two consecutive League Cup finals in 1991 and 1992, beating Nottingham Forest 1–0 in the second to win that competition for the first time as well.
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