An official apology has been issued to
Wayne Rooney by the
Irish Examinerover an article about a purported alcohol incident at Manchester United.
Reports emerged which suggested Rooney was not injured but had in fact been tested by Man United and those results allegedly showed alcohol in his system.
Rooney is currently sidelined with what
Louis van Gaal described as a ‘nasty’ injury but the suggestion of these reports was that his absence from the team was not down to injury but the aforementioned issue relating to a test.
On December 8, 2015 we published an article alleging that Wayne Rooney was dropped from the Manchester United squad for their fixtures with West Ham United and Wolfsburg as he turned up to training with alcohol in his system
This allegation is completely false and we apologise to Wayne for the distress caused to him by its publication.