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A shaven-headed Rooney had seen his side’s comfortable 4-1 lead pegged back to 4-3 with ten minutes remaining. Not content with the indignity of having to contest a drop-ball, he managed to almost cripple two Hull players in the space of a second. Swinging wildly in the vague direction of the ball Rooney caught George Boateng just below the knee, before testing Andy Dawson’s shin pads to the extreme with a desperate lunge at the Hull defender

Rooney, soccer